Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Patrick Brown, who was named North Carolinas Small Farmer of the Year by North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University this year, grows almost 200 acres of industrial hemp for both oil and fiber, and 11 acres and several greenhouses of vegetablesbeets, kale, radishes, peppers, okra, and bok choy.

Plantation 144

Plantation Farming Farming Acre 144

Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise by Olivia Laing The Garden Against Time is an ode to the joy of working with the land and cultivating beauty outdoors. But it also raises important questions about who has access to such a paradise.

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Food Agriculture Agriculture Supply Chain 133

The Equation

MAY 14, 2024

Their suggested marker bills included provisions that would broaden access to US farm loans for historically underserved borrowers, help farmers address the climate crisis, better protect food and farm workers, halt industrial agriculture mergers by strengthening relevant antitrust laws, and expand SNAP benefits and government nutrition programs.

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Food Farming Farming Agriculture 120

Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 6, 2024

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.

Food 98

Food Farming Farming Processing 98

Food Environment and Reporting Network

MAY 28, 2024

The Aztec believed the first man resulted from Quetzalcóatl’s gifting of cultivated corn; in the Maya story, the first spiritually fit humans are crafted from maize seeds after failed attempts to use wood and mud. Its import extends backward to the earliest Mesoamerican creation myths starring maize-minded gods.

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Maize Science Crop Food 144

Civil Eats

MARCH 12, 2025

Understanding that nutrition is much more than just nutrientsthat [it] is agriculture, politics, the environment, and moreshaped my thinking about food and the work I do to this day. I consider myself a product of the big, robust garden you cultivated. She was a happy and inspiring warrior against the forces of industrial agriculture.

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Food Ecology Farming Farming 134

Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

But Mars believes that a regenerative paradigm shift can heal much more than the soil, transforming all parts of an industrial agricultural system that both contributes to and risks disruption from the climate crisis. Could cultivating it offer me an opportunity to make up for all that had not passed down to me?”

Food 145

Food Farming Farming Forage 145

Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

And even though I cant live off kale frittatas alone either, by producing some of my own protein I cultivate a feeling of ecological resilience, knowing that Im more insulated from the brittlenessand the injustices and the pollutionof industrialized agriculture.

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Poultry Pasture Food Farming 142

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 31, 2024

” As Spoor pointed out, most deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon today comes at the hands of small-scale farmers , and he wanted to convince me that industrial agriculture, which had deepened climate impacts elsewhere, could achieve the opposite here. “What is it that people are going to do here in the jungle?”

Plantation 126

Plantation Acre Cultivation Crop 126