Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

He also cultivates 75 acres of wheat, 83 acres of soybeans, 65 acres of corn, and 45 acres of hardwoods and pine trees. As director of farmer inclusion, his job is to distribute $1.7 In 2021, he carried out the ultimate act of reclamation, purchasing the plantation house and surrounding 2.5

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Collectively, they cultivate seven different varieties, including the organizations signatures: Black Joy, Creole Country Red,” Black Belt Sticky, and Jubilee Justice Jasmine. Opala says plantation owners were willing to pay higher prices for dragging these expert farmers across the Atlantic into North American slavery.

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Civil Eats

MAY 21, 2024

In this map, green areas are projected to be favorable to coffee cultivation by 2050, while brown areas will not be. ( A coffee plant wilts in the sun on a plantation near Manizales, Colombia. Founder Maricel Saenz, who grew up in Costa Rica, says Minus distributes canned cold brews to large food-service companies.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

This may seem like an antiquated concern for chefs in an era of global food distribution systems, but it’s an all-consuming preoccupation for Oyster Oyster, a restaurant named after two ingredients—a bivalve and a mushroom —known for their ecosystem benefits. Take chocolate , for instance. Sugar comes with its problems , too.

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Agritecture Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

And at the root of it all is a startling vulnerability: The coffee we cultivate and drink today, which sustains an industry valued at over $100 billion , comes from just two species — and research on others is woefully behind. So they made dozens of “wanted” flyers for the plant and distributed them to farmers in the area.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

—Matthew Wheeland Countering Dispossession, Reclaiming Land: A Social Movement Ethnography By David Gilbert Along the slopes of a volcano in Indonesia, a group of Minangkabau Indigenous agricultural workers began quietly reclaiming their land in 1993, growing cinnamon trees, chilies, eggplants, and other foods on the edges of plantations.

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