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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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Albania: A lesson in localism

Sustainable Food Trust

Seed detective Adam Alexander travels to the Kor çë region to discover how regenerative horticulture is holding up. 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.

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

Modern Farmer

In 2023, the TDOT launched a program called Project Milkweed —free mail-order milkweed seeds for people to plant in their gardens to support monarchs. It ran out of seeds pretty quickly, restocked and ran out again. All in all, it received 130,903 individual orders, sending out a total of 799,601 packets of seeds. “I

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Can Seaweed Save American Shellfish?

Civil Eats

She points out that most of the shellfish she harvests these days have been seeded manually by the town of Southampton and local universities, “almost like a science project,” she says. The Scientists Who Kickstarted American Kelp Farming The science behind this boom in seaweed cultivation began in New England nearly 50 years ago.

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