Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Seaweed naturally absorbs carbon as it grows, but unless it is harvested, it decomposes and releases carbon back. In Alaska, seaweed farmers can only cultivate seaweed varieties that grow natively within 50 kilometers of their farm. That’s a lot of ocean to potentially cultivate. All commercial seaweed farms are on land.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 4, 2024

By ensuring reliable demand for regeneratively raised meat, proponents of the system’s new procurement pledge see the sizable volume giving the state’s independent ranchers and rural economy a huge boost, and bolstering the local and regional meat supply chain. herding around 50 heads. Cream Co.,

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Agritecture Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Cultivation Technology Cultivation technology lies at the center of many strategies and modern CEAs. When reviewing a CEA operation, we ask the questions: “What is the cultivation system being used? Companies developing these novel cultivation systems are typically motivated by lowering their CapEx.

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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. percent [of U.S.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 12, 2024

Here, farmers deliver freshly harvested produce to a brick-and-mortar retail shop with a full staff. Photo credit: Paige Hodder) Farm stops operate quite differently from typical mainstream grocery stores like Kroger or Albertson’s, which rely on industrialized food systems and complex supply chains.

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Civil Eats

MAY 21, 2024

Underpaid pickers don’t show up, and coffee cherries rot on the ground, wasting the harvest. Some harvests last for six months instead of the standard two, and some are shockingly short. Or harvests are compressed into a two-week period, and the coffee mills can’t handle the tsunami of cherries waiting to be processed.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 9, 2023

Global disruptions to the food supply chain, along with inflation, contributed to the increase. Small-scale cultivation is a pretty time-tested way of humans making a life and a living,” she says. “In This goal builds resilience in our food supply,” she says. “We Our aim is good food within walking distance for everyone.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 23, 2024

In past decades, the large-scale consolidation of the food supply chain has reduced processing, aggregation, and transportation to a handful of companies. As momentum builds throughout various regions, it has spawned wider discussions about incentivizing other parts of the supply chain for regenerative producers, says Stelk.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

What they need is a supply chain and market that can handle the harvest. Flax has been cultivated since ancient Egypt, and in the US since colonial times, when European settlers brought seeds to places such as Philadelphia, where it was mostly hand-processed and spun. Farmers can grow flax. Photography by Zoe Schaeffer.

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World Agri-Tech

MARCH 12, 2024

Driving impact against climate commitments takes collaboration across the entire agribusiness supply chain. Meet camelina, an oilseed crop harvested today primarily across Europe and North America. When harvested effectively, camelina can produce more than 80 gallons of biofuel per acre.

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Agritecture Blog

APRIL 12, 2023

Having a vertical farming unit on campus allows students to apply the knowledge they have learned in the classroom and develop practical skills in plant cultivation, technology, and sustainability. Plant cultivation and nutrition management : Ensuring plants receive the right nutrients and care to grow and produce the best yields.

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Agwired

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Bushel , an independently-owned software technology company focused on developing digital tools for the agricultural supply chain, announced the addition of Tony Morosini to the Bushel leadership team to further expand adoption and accelerate innovation within digital payments in agriculture. AgriFoodTech innovation ecosystems.

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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 Harvest International

APRIL 22, 2024

This Earth Day, Sustainable Harvest International (SHI) has curated a second compilation of thirteen impactful practices and daily routines that, when adopted, nurture our planet and preserve it for future generations. Over time, conventional agricultural methods lead to soil degradation, threatening our ability to cultivate food.

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Agritecture Blog

APRIL 20, 2023

Farm.One’s subscription service tends to attract people who are keen home cooks and are eager to work with fresh ingredients on the same day they were harvested, straight from the farm. Credit: Farm One. The VF industry has had a tough time over the last year, and Farm.One aims to be an opposing force to that big industry. Credit: Farm One.

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RR2CS

APRIL 5, 2024

About us: At RR2CS, we’re on a mission to cultivate climate solutions in rural Alberta. SAP empowers Siksikaitsitapi agricultural producers and traditional harvesters with traditional knowledge, resources and peers to engage with and implement culturally-appropriate agricultural climate solutions (i.e. A sense of humor.

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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. Isaiah White harvests kale at his familys fifth-generation farm in Warren County, where the U.S. Grover established a peach orchard in 1935, and cultivated grain and raised livestock until the late 1970s.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Recently harvested cacao pods collected in a sack, ready to be carried to the village for fermenting. If their supply chain and production processes check off all the above boxes, shouldn’t they, too, have the right to slap the “ceremonial” sticker onto their bars? A local farmer carrying his cacao harvest home on a local road.

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Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Welch also provides tips on best shopping and harvesting practices to help eaters start cutting waste even before they reach the kitchen. High food prices and supply chain insecurities are only some of the challenges that farmers struggle with every season.

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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. The organization invests in projects, startups, and individuals, focusing on improving food security, health, and environmental outcomes.

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Agritecture Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Workers dump harvested coffee cherries into a truck on a farm in Brazil on June 2. 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.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

—Grey Moran A Call to Farms: Reconnecting to Nature, Food, and Community in a Modern World By Jennifer Grayson The fragility of our food system became more prominent than ever during the COVID-19 pandemic, when supply chains struggled to stay tethered due to global trade disruptions.

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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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Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

From November to April, she traveled to farms throughout the coastal highlands, following the harvest, sleeping in migrant camps, laboring alongside generations of migrant workers. Starbucks asserted that they have zero tolerance for child labor anywhere in our supply chain. They kept in touch by phone during the offseason.

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