Modern Farmer

AUGUST 29, 2023

Bakersfield College boasts an Edible Gardens Catalog program, Kalamazoo Community College offers Sustainable Food Systems Competencies coursework and Greenfield Community College’s Farm and Food Systems covers mushroom foraging and cultivation, permaculture design, beekeeping, food preservation and more. who will direct the new project.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 22, 2024

The isolation of this ecologically rich archipelago of peaks, located in a “sea” of desert that stretches from northern Mexico into southern Arizona, means that plants grow here that don’t grow anywhere else. Images CC-licensed, from Botanical Sciences 95(3):345 ). The first image of each row is the wild relative.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 27, 2024

She points out that most of the shellfish she harvests these days have been seeded manually by the town of Southampton and local universities, “almost like a science project,” she says. The Scientists Who Kickstarted American Kelp Farming The science behind this boom in seaweed cultivation began in New England nearly 50 years ago.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

A hedgerow can be made up of any densely planted growth bordering a field that is cultivated to create a barrier. But a hedgerow can also mean stands of cultivated scrub brush and flowers that create boundaries between open fields or cropland, which are sometimes also called “shelterbelts.”

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

All registrants to Groundswell should watch the webinar so that attendees may be working with information that is current and accurate based on the science available to us now. A pre-webinar on the topic of ethanol was held to provide some baseline information from a variety of experts with different perspectives on ethanol.

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UnderstandingAg

MARCH 10, 2025

By: Kyle Richardville, Understanding Ag, LLC About the Understanding series Agriculture isnt rocket science. Farming and ranching involve the fields of biology, ecology, chemistry, botany, physics, geology, meteorology, politics, economics, psychology and mechanics, just to name a few. Its much more complex than that.

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Civil Eats

JULY 31, 2024

One type in particular, kelp—a large brown algae with many species, including sugar kelp— has been hailed as an ecologically beneficial, nutritious superfood that can be farmed on both U.S. Largely developed in Asia, seaweed farming is a new venture on American shores. coasts—and could help fight climate change. Kodiak Island in the summer.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 12, 2025

Starting in the 1970s, through her groundbreaking nutritional ecology class at Teachers College within Columbia University, and through books like The Feeding Web: Issues in Nutritional Ecology , she transformed our view of food from something enjoyed at the end of a fork to the entire system that created the mouthful.

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The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

We’ve spent a couple of generations exiting historically normal tasks and behavior, from integrating livestock and crops, growing gardens, buying locally and cultivating domestic culinary arts. The life, death, decomposition, regeneration cycle is as foundational to our ecological womb as the need for sunlight and water.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Black Urban Growers (BUGs) , United States BUGs is committed to fostering a strong, supportive community for cultivators in both urban and rural settings, while empowering Black leadership in agriculture. EAT , International EAT seeks to transform global food systems by integrating science, innovation, and collaboration across sectors.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Black Urban Growers , United States Black Urban Growers (BUGs) is dedicated to fostering a robust community that supports cultivators in urban and rural environments, while nurturing Black leadership. CGIAR , International As the largest global agricultural innovation network, CGIAR is working to the transform food, land, and water systems.

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Food Tank

JANUARY 16, 2024

Saying NO to a Farm-Free Future: The Case for an Ecological Food System and Against Manufactured Foods by Chris Smaje In Saying NO to a Farm Free Future, farmer and academic Chris Smaje presents an argument in defense of small-scale farming. fishing and hunting culture.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

In this 2023 Holiday Book Guide, you’ll find reviews of memoirs, personal essays, histories, science writing, journalism, cookbooks, guidebooks, and photo collections—written by our editors, staff writers, and freelance contributors. In addition to our top picks for holiday giving, you’ll find a roundup of our recent book coverage.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

—Nina Elkadi Medicine Wheel for the Planet: A Journey Toward Personal and Ecological Healing By Jennifer Grenz “To use only fragmented pieces of [Indigenous] knowledge is to admire a tree without its roots,” Nlaka’pamux ecologist turned land healer Jennifer Grenz writes in Medicine Wheel for the Planet.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 31, 2024

There have been myriad overfishing crises, but cultivation of the oceans has been limited. But, as we write in a new paper published last week in the journal Science Advances , the full suite of risks from mariculture are incompletely mapped. That may soon change. million tons in 2022. That may soon change.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

What we do know is that the virus is now endemic in some wild birds, like wild ducks that move through our country, says Carol Cardona, a professor of veterinary and biomedical sciences at University of Minnesota. We know that is partially why we keep getting these seasonal outbreaks. But, being a flexitarian, I cant live on kale alone.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JANUARY 19, 2024

According to the 2023 Iowa Climate Statement , signed by more than 200 science faculty at 31 colleges and universities across the state, a “one-acre solar farm produces as much energy as 100 acres of corn-based ethanol” over the course of a year.

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The Equation

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The main ingredients of synthetic fertilizers Nutrients like nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassiumthe holy trinity popularly known as NPK by private industryare deemed essential for cultivating crops. Because of this, these nutrients are often overapplied to crop fields in the form of synthetic fertilizers. What is the path forward?

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The Equation

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The main ingredients of synthetic fertilizers Nutrients like nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassiumthe holy trinity popularly known as NPK by private industryare deemed essential for cultivating crops. Because of this, these nutrients are often overapplied to crop fields in the form of synthetic fertilizers. What is the path forward?

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