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Young Farmers Cultivating Change

Modern Farmer

Graeme Foers Lost Meadows Apiaries & Meadery Location: Essa Township, Ontario, Canada Age: 33 Years Farming: 13 Tell us a bit about your farm: My farming season begins early February with the maple syrup season. I keep the honey separate from each meadow and each month. Why farming? What drew you to it as a livelihood?

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Can Seaweed Save American Shellfish?

Civil Eats

Rich in minerals, kelp grows quickly and doesn’t require fertilizer. The Scientists Who Kickstarted American Kelp Farming The science behind this boom in seaweed cultivation began in New England nearly 50 years ago. However, wild West Coast seagrass meadows and kelp forests are declining, and that makes Hill very worried.

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Summer reading 2024: Our recommended food and farming reads

Sustainable Food Trust

The author’s journey into landscapes of the past and the foods they provide takes him far and wide – starting in Çatalhöyük where humans first settled on the land becoming place-based, cultivating emmer wheat and barley, yet still hunting and foraging their food. Agriculture had not yet quite arrived as a practice and food was abundant.

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