Food Environment and Reporting Network

APRIL 25, 2024

slide-intro --> The ranching industry’s toxic grass problem By Robert Langellier , March 27, 2024 Buzzkill By Dan Charles , December 18, 2023 How mushrooms can prevent megafires By Stephen Robert Miller , July 10, 2023 A remote Alaska village depended on the snow crab harvest for survival. Then billions of crabs died.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 14, 2023

He’s tinkered with different irrigation systems, moving from a sub-surface drip setup to his current above-ground micro-sprayer, which he says has the best distribution of water with the least waste. Plus, there are multiple uses for each nut harvested. My orchard has a lot of trees,” says Paddock. “I’m

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MAY 17, 2023

He says the labor and lessons of his ancestors are in the soil and the grapevines and orchards, and he’s passing these on to the next generations. In his latest, Secret Harvests , Mas writes about the shock of a newly uncovered family secret. Matsumoto in an orchard he planted with his father. Photo by Lisa Morehouse.

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ATTRA

OCTOBER 3, 2023

What are the skillsets, knowledge, experiences, and resources that the community could contribute to a forest garden or community orchard? American Forests has a tool called the Tree Equity Score, which tells you how evenly distributed trees are in your city and your specific neighborhood. What about forest gardens gets people excited?

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Civil Eats

MARCH 4, 2024

Food grown in local fields, orchards, and pastures with healthy soil management practices simply make for healthier, more nutritious, and more flavorful meals, he says—the perfect ingredients for changing the “stigma” associated with hospital fare. herding around 50 heads.

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Caff

JANUARY 26, 2022

In October 2020, the Bear Yuba Land Trust, Sierra Harvest, BriarPatch Food Co-op and Tahoe Food Hub bought the land through a partnership called Forever Farm. The entire Sierra Orchards team is not only deeply knowledgeable and committed to their roles as land stewards, but they are forever generous with that wisdom.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Kernza® is a deeply rooted perennial grain harvested from intermediate wheatgrass and provided to the breweries by A-Frame Farm in Minnesota. “By The brewery is located on a small but busy farm with apple orchards, market gardens, two greenhouses, an apiary, and a flock of chickens. for a new beer initiative.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 21, 2022

slide-intro --> A remote Alaska village depended on the snow crab harvest for survival. By Rowan Jacobsen , July 24, 2019 An unhealthy alliance between almonds and honeybees By Paige Embry , June 20, 2019 In January, with the almond bloom in California’s orchards a month away, beekeepers across the country were fretting over their hives.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JANUARY 11, 2023

slide-intro --> A remote Alaska village depended on the snow crab harvest for survival. By Rowan Jacobsen , July 24, 2019 An unhealthy alliance between almonds and honeybees By Paige Embry , June 20, 2019 In January, with the almond bloom in California’s orchards a month away, beekeepers across the country were fretting over their hives.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

slide-intro --> A remote Alaska village depended on the snow crab harvest for survival. By Rowan Jacobsen , July 24, 2019 An unhealthy alliance between almonds and honeybees By Paige Embry , June 20, 2019 In January, with the almond bloom in California’s orchards a month away, beekeepers across the country were fretting over their hives.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JANUARY 17, 2024

the Osage Nation’s community orchard. from Chapter 21 of NCA5 Changes like sea level rise are resulting in the loss of culturally significant locations for subsistence harvesting. As in other regions, the impacts are distributed disproportionately, with Indigenous populations especially affected by struggles with water availability.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Westlands Water District was formed to distribute that water to 600,000 acres of land. Growers now are ripping out some of those parched orchards. Farmworkers no longer crowd the town at harvest time, since many growers switched from vegetables that require hand labor. President Kennedy himself showed up for the groundbreaking.

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Agritecture Blog

JANUARY 12, 2023

Students harvesting greens with Teens for Food Justice. Each of TFFJ’s farms produces thousands of pounds of vegetables every year, including spinach, lettuce, and cucumbers, which are used in cafeterias or distributed to students’ families and the surrounding community. Credit: Jessica DiMento. Credit: John Stuart.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 29, 2023

It then distributes the co-op products to low-income people, especially to many ndigenous Mixtec and Triqui families. Then we harvest in September. Ana Lopez inspects a tree seedling in a Tierra y Libertad orchard. We planted and grew corn, and then we’d harvest it. It pays a premium for berries—$4.75

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

“A lot has to go into the planning of where the food forest is, when the fruits are harvestable, and whether the harvestable fruits are equitably distributed.” She pointed to the Philadelphia Orchard Project as an emblem of success. Those percentages could be much more if I were putting more time into the harvests.”

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Even monarch butterflies have lost habitat due to the prevalence of monocrop avocado orchards, along the once lush, biodiverse hillsides of Michoacán in Mexico. Choose one from Chile and you might be furthering the extraction of much-needed fresh water.” Yet Eldridge is far from calling for an avocado boycott.

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Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 1, 2024

Before 7 th October 2023 , farms and orchards covered almost half of Gaza’s total land area and more than 7,500 greenhouses contributed to an agricultural sector normally worth over $575m a year. A young farmer called Yousef, whose farm was destroyed in recent bombings, has already begun distributing heirloom seedlings.

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Farmbrite

JANUARY 31, 2025

The CSA allows producers to sell directly to consumers without a middle entity, which translates to less money invested in distribution and more affordable prices for the consumer. Some farms, orchards, ranches, etc. How are Community Supported Agriculture Shares Distributed? Here are the most popular methods.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 20, 2023

The bitterest irony of all is that the coffee, bananas, and mangoes that the migrants are helping to harvest are destined for the very country responsible for keeping them here. And one of the key reasons for that is the explosion in demand for fresh fruit, including the mangoes that Carme and so many others harvest.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JANUARY 23, 2025

From Californias strawberry fields to Floridas orange orchards, at least 70 percent of the agricultural workers who harvest our crops were born outside the U.S. If you are interested in republishing or reposting this article, please contact info@thefern.org. food system is propped up by low-wage immigrant workers from farm to table.

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