Cultivation, Fertilizer and Plantation

Vanilla is in Crisis. Producers in Mexico Are Not Giving Up

Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

He is working on the plantation,” his wife announces. As we stroll through the plantation, Huberto’s son nudges the oranges on a nearby tree, handing a few to us to enjoy along the way. Francisco Mendoza and his daughters at the vanilla plantation. The oldest vanilla plants at Juan Martinez’ plantation are six years old.

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Black Earth: A Family’s Journey from Enslavement to Reclamation

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. In 2021, he carried out the ultimate act of reclamation, purchasing the plantation house and surrounding 2.5 From the main house, we drive at 45 mph for 10 minutes, and were still on former plantation land.

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Southern Black Farmers Sow Rice and Reconciliation

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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In Hawai‘i, Restoring Kava Helps Sustain Native Food Culture

Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Kava has endured a long history of adversity, said Lakea Trask, a Hawaiian farmer and local activist who cultivates kava and other Native crops for Kanaka Kava , his familys farm-to-table restaurant in Kailua-Kona, on the Big Island. For Trask, kava is also central to healing Hawaiis post-plantation scars. Trask echoes the sentiment.

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Returning the ‘Three Sisters’ – Corn, Beans and Squash – to Native American Farms Nourishes People, Land and Cultures

Daily Yonder

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Historians know that turkey and corn were part of the first Thanksgiving , when Wampanoag peoples shared a harvest meal with the pilgrims of Plymouth plantation in Massachusetts. They called the plants sisters to reflect how they thrived when they were cultivated together. This story was originally published by The Conversation.

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21 New Books to Inspire the Movement for Sustainable Food Systems

Food Tank

MARCH 19, 2025

Gardens of Hope: Cultivating Food and the Future in a Post-Disaster City by Yuki Kato (Forthcoming May 2025) Drawing from conversations with New Orleans residents, Yuki Kato examines the surge of urban gardening in the city during the decade after Hurricane Katrina.

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In Fire-Stricken Maui, Sustainable Land Management Is Key

Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

(Photo: Jasmine Pankratz) Once home to large-scale plantations and ranches that dominated the landscape for more than 160 years, the steep and steady decline of Hawaiian agriculture has left fields and pastures idle by thousands of acres, often in close proximity to residential development.

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How Centuries of Extractive Agriculture Helped Set the Stage for the Maui Fires

Civil Eats

AUGUST 23, 2023

But colonization, and the extractive agricultural systems that came with it, had a devastating impact on reshaping the landscape ecologically, culturally, and economically—not only depleting soils of fertility but making much of the island more fire-prone. Chinese contract laborers on a sugar plantation in 19th century Hawaii.

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Beyond Farm to Table: How Chefs Can Support Climate-Friendly Food Systems

Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The majority of the world’s cocoa is sourced from West Africa, often harvested by children on vast plantations linked to widespread deforestation. Many of their traditional plants, like manioc, are also highly adapted to the environment and climate, cultivated over thousands of years. Take chocolate , for instance. says Rubba.

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Rooted Revival: Navigating Agricultural Hurdles in the US Virgin Islands

ATTRA

MARCH 19, 2024

Bruddah began lamenting to me that he can’t afford to work or fertilize his land, that the local government has made promises ensuring water access for irrigation, but he is always left waiting and wondering when the water might come.

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Coffee as we know it is in danger. Can we breed a better cup?

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. In the meantime, rising global temperatures are exacerbating threats to production.

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Op-ed: Black Producers Have Farmed Sustainably in Kansas for Generations. Let’s Not Erase Our Progress.

Civil Eats

JANUARY 29, 2025

Together, they left the plantation of Richard M. Theyd also seen advertisements promoting the land as vast, vacant, and fertile. My ancestors knew they couldn’t grow tobacco, so they learned how to cultivate crops like corn, wheat , and sorghum (milo), all without irrigation. So they moved.

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These State Lawmakers Are Collaborating on Policies that Support Regenerative Agriculture

Civil Eats

JANUARY 23, 2024

Along with reducing the need for synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides, practices that build healthy soil, for example, make land more resilient to drought, flooding, wildfires, and erosion. The benefits are just so multifaceted,” she says, “that it’s kind of a no-brainer.” I’ve never tasted vegetables like that.”

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A palm oil company, a group of U.S. venture capitalists, and the destruction of Peru’s rainforest

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Share this This Story’s Impact 100 million global monthly unique visitors Business Insider Two of the largest palm oil plantations in Peru are located on the west side of the Ucayali River, which flows from the Andes to the Amazon. ” But the creation of the plantations came at a steep price.

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