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Young Farmers Cultivating Change

Modern Farmer

Graeme Foers Lost Meadows Apiaries & Meadery Location: Essa Township, Ontario, Canada Age: 33 Years Farming: 13 Tell us a bit about your farm: My farming season begins early February with the maple syrup season. I keep the honey separate from each meadow and each month. Nothing happens in a hurry.

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Meet the Flavor-Focused Farmers Cultivating More Than a Thousand Crops

Modern Farmer

The fields at Norwich Meadows Farm, however, are more akin to a time capsule—or even a treasure chest. The motivation behind the astonishing array of fruits and vegetables at Norwich Meadows Farm has always been, first and foremost, flavor. “We Zaid and Haifa Kurdieh met while attending high school in Jordan.

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What Do Fish, Butterflies, and Bats Have to Do With Booze?

Modern Farmer

From there, we can begin to consider how the cultivation, transformation, and transportation of their ingredients impacts our land, water, and air, as well as all of the life forms inhabiting these ecosystems. Ecolabels can be verified by governing bodies at the international, federal, or state level, as well as by independent organizations.

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Albania: A lesson in localism

Sustainable Food Trust

My idea of heaven is the 100 hectares of cultivated ground that provide a livelihood for the 50 plus families who work the land in Miras and who produce more than enough food to feed the entire community of 600 families. The reallocation of collective farms meant that thousands of families were given land to cultivate themselves.

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Pollinator Habitat is Falling to the Side of the Road—in a Good Way

Modern Farmer

A meadow planted by TDOT at a highway interchange. He has published a few helpful books on this subject, including A New Garden Ethic: Cultivating Defiant Compassion for an Uncertain Future and Prairie Up. “It’s really shown us that people want to do the right thing. Think local and make connections.

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Can Seaweed Save American Shellfish?

Civil Eats

The Scientists Who Kickstarted American Kelp Farming The science behind this boom in seaweed cultivation began in New England nearly 50 years ago. Hill conducted a study in Tomales Bay and found that seagrass “meadows” there also offset acidification, and could increase shell growth by up to 40 percent.

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Summer reading 2024: Our recommended food and farming reads

Sustainable Food Trust

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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