Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

Although California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) aims to recharge them by regulating draws, the dried-up lake bed has long been collapsing under the massive weight of industrialized agriculture—to the tune of a couple of inches per month. standards,” he writes in an email.

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Farming Farming Manure Agriculture 98

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.

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Food Farming Farming Processing 98

Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

As a nation, we have too many eggs in one industrialized basket. What does that mean for pasture-raised poultry, which spend most of their lives outdoors and therefore are at greater risk of contact with contagious wild birds? They are out on pasture, eating grass. There are, though, other ways of making an omelet.

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Poultry Pasture Food Farming 142

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 31, 2024

We passed abandoned farms, cattle pastures, and stray dogs, but not much forest. ” 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.

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Plantation Acre Cultivation Crop 126