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This Oregon Farmer Is Building a New Model for Indigenous Food and Agriculture

Civil Eats

(Photo courtesy Schreiner) “We have created a template for a tribal farm, which operates very differently than a standard non-Native farm,” explains Schreiner, who has a background in natural resource management, soil science, and water conservation. “We

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Closing the Loop on Poop

Modern Farmer

Mingchu Zhang, professor of soil science and agronomy at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, cautions in an email about infectious organisms in dog poop that might survive composting. The finished product is used only on landscaping at the compost site, with no distribution to the public, says Seeman.

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Back to School with Nice Roots Farm: Food Justice, Land Sovereignty and Deconstructing the Food System

Share Food Program

Agroecology: Understanding Sustainable Plant & Soil Science; and 4. In the spirit of back-to-school, we’ll be sharing Nice Roots’ Farm-to-School curriculum in a series of four lessons: 1. Food Justice, Land Sovereignty and Deconstructing the Food System; 2. Growing Food from Seed to Harvest; 3.

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This app set out to fight pesticides. Once VC stepped in, the app helped sell them.

Food Environment and Reporting Network

The Streys had studied geography and soil science at Leibniz University Hannover in Germany. Around that time, Strey and her husband and cofounder, Robert, were teaching farmers in Gambia how to make organic fertilizer through a nonprofit they had started called Green Desert.

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Our 2023 Food and Farming Holiday Book Gift Guide

Civil Eats

In conveying the history of nutritional support in America, Bosso always lays the groundwork in support of SNAP, a program heavily maligned by the right that also acts as a subversive form of cash assistance.

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