Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

But the pawpaw’s two- to three-week harvest window, short shelf life, and delicate skin still make it anathema to the rigid needs of grocery stores and a rare find even at farmers’ markets. Indigenous people first cultivated it in woodlands, using the tree’s fibrous inner bark to make ropes and string and its leaves and stems as medicine.

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Seeding Farming Farming Orchard 141

Kavya Organic Farm

JULY 18, 2023

By following our expert tips and guidelines, you can produce an abundant harvest of these flavorful, meaty tomatoes that are perfect for salads, sandwiches, and other delectable dishes. High-quality seeds will give your tomato plants a head start, leading to vigorous growth and a bountiful harvest.

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ATTRA

MAY 7, 2024

The journey of tea from seed to cup involves harvesting, withering, rolling, oxidizing, and drying. As interest in locally sourced and sustainably grown products continues, tea cultivation in the Gulf South could become an exciting new venture for farmers and tea lovers alike. Cultivation Techniques Are you excited to grow some tea?

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Harvester Cultivation Harvest Harvesting 40

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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Civil Eats

MARCH 12, 2025

Joan was instrumental in some of my thinking for my book Bitter Harvest , and when I went to the Ross School to build a healthy, nutritious, delicious school food program, Joan graciously gave of her time and energy to teach and educate our team. I was thrilled when she agreed to write the foreword to my 2000 book Sharing the Harvest.

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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. A lot has to go into the planning of where the food forest is, when the fruits are harvestable, and whether the harvestable fruits are equitably distributed.”

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Nothing has been tilled or cultivated here to bring the insects or the fungus, which pose the biggest threats to organic olive oil production. This makes it much easier to start an organic system of production than trying to convert land that has been heavily cultivated, sown and/or pumped with chemicals for years or decades.

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Production Farming Farming Cultivation 52

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Sprinkled throughout the recipes are fascinating historical tidbits about the Quaker who first cultivated rhubarb in the 1730s, for example, and the Indigenous tribes that used spruce tip tea to ward off scurvy. To make an amaro (relatively easy!) you need to first learn to make a tincture.

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