Food Tank

OCTOBER 11, 2023

It also reveals that the production cultivation of barley and hops is responsible for most of the environmental impact of beer. Holden Manz, South Africa Certified by Sustainable Wine South Africa (SWSA), Holden Manz cultivates 16 hectares of vineyards in the Franschhoek Valley, tucked in the mountains of the Western Cape.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 29, 2023

The cattle, which were artificially inseminated by students in the spring, will eventually be harvested at a USDA plant and incorporated into the fine dining menu at the college’s student-run campus restaurant, Capstone Kitchen. The federal government is trying to help spur growth in these types of programs, too.

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ATTRA

APRIL 7, 2025

Indigenous communities across the Amazon, West Africa, and Southeast Asia have long used successional agroforestry techniques to cultivate staple crops while regenerating soil health and boosting biodiversity. To receive information about upcoming workshops like this, make sure you are subscribed to ATTRAs Weekly Harvest e-newsletter.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 4, 2024

The smaller volumes and seasonality of pastures create more variability in slaughter weight and harvest windows, running counter to the conventional year-round commodity model. on the other hand, cultivates its supply pipeline “over many years of sustained [purchasing] commitments” to individual operations, he says. Cream Co.,

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 23, 2024

As a presenter at the Pescadero workshop, Rivera reminded lawmakers that Native farmers, ranchers, and food producers—including foragers and harvesters—hold deep-rooted, traditional expertise. Their insight is essential to creating sustainable, culturally sensitive, and region-specific policies, she says.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Leafy greens, such as lettuce, have a high transfer rate and can easily carry dangerous levels of forever chemicals as can hay and grasses usedfor animal forage. We can fund a farm to switch from hay to grain cultivation, which requires new equipment, new storage, and new drying facilities,” she added. “In

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Agwired

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

However, because federal laws restricted hemp growth and research until recently, commercial hemp production lacks best practices for cultivation, including effective and safe pest and disease management. The economic importance of hemp is increasing both globally and in the United States. Vermeer has forged an alliance with G.T.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 5, 2024

Our milk is not only cruelty-free, but its production also has a benign impact on the environment and is integrated with local crop cultivation. During the course of a year, the camels forage on different types of land that include harvested fields, forest, sacred groves and what is classified as revenue land.

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Agritecture Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

They must be gently cultivated where the low-lying bushes grow naturally, and the small, sweet berries are sold in the local area, too delicate to easily transport far. Sweetland tends, harvests and sells the blueberries, and shares profits with the landowner. We wanted to really protect that crop.

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Caff

JUNE 13, 2023

Many agencies have established minimum thresholds for pollutants of concern to human health, livestock, forage, soil, and water. The clause protects organic status so long as any harvested crop or plant parts that have contact with the substance is not sold, labeled, or represented as organically produced.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

OCTOBER 1, 2024

As a member of the Oglala Lakota from Pine Ridge, South Dakota, a chef, and a historian, I see the massive potential in harnessing, cultivating, and elevating the Indigenous culinary creativity that permeates this massive region. A broad, Native-led restaurant industry could become a huge driver of food-focused tourism.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 19, 2024

The GLSAs provide vegetative cover for foraging, roosting and nesting wildlife including raptors, wading birds, songbirds, pollinating insects and small mammals such as moles and mice. “We They’d argue that there are benefits even after a short period of uncropping (up to six years).

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Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 6, 2024

Across seven chapters, each uncovering a different element of the Welsh landscape, Graves celebrates the diverse ecosystems of his homeland, revealing how the land has been transformed by humans ever since they first began harvesting wood and herding animals. Agriculture had not yet quite arrived as a practice and food was abundant.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

Could cultivating it offer me an opportunity to make up for all that had not passed down to me?” She layers these personal narratives with the larger histories of wheat cultivation over the millennia and the more recent organic farming movement. “Might this obscure wheat contain within it a door to my own heritage?”

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Merchant, who works at the Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona, sees cultivating mesquite around the city and surrounding areas as an opportunity to ease both heat and hunger. The outcome could be a network of “food forests,” community spaces where volunteers tend fruit trees and other edible plants for neighbors to forage.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Our Staff Reporter Grey Moran has a delightful article about foraging , published in Grist, included in the book. smith Slow Drinks: A Field Guide to Foraging and Fermenting Seasonal Sodas, Botanical Cocktails, Homemade Wines, and More By Danny Childs Danny Childs studied ethnobotany in college. To make an amaro (relatively easy!)

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