Food Tank

MARCH 19, 2025

Ben Brisbois reveals the less-palatable side of the banana industry, from devastating health impacts of pesticides to imperialism and ecological destruction. His latest book takes a deep dive into the realms of plants, animals, insects, fungi, food, and farms to demonstrate how intertwined carbon is with the human experience.

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Food Plantation Farming Farming 118

Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

This radically seasonal, regional restaurant sources its ingredients exclusively from the ocean, climate-adapted farms, and wild plants of the Mid-Atlantic. Come February, we have this very short farm list. They source sunflower and canola oil from Pennsylvania farms. Toward the end of winter, it gets a little. agriculture.

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Food Farming Farming Supply Chain 142

Civil Eats

AUGUST 23, 2023

Lahaina, the former capital of the Hawaiian Kingdom , was once a thriving, ecologically diverse landscape full of fish ponds and diverse crops that included sweet potatoes, kalo (taro), and ‘ulu (breadfruit). Which then, of course, becomes very ironic in terms of how the plantations then [put] a horrible, detrimental end to our soil quality.

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Plantation Agriculture Agriculture Ecology 98

Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Sprouting deep within the verdant pleats of Oʻahu’s Koʻolau Mountains, Heʻeia stream winds through Kakoʻo ʻOʻiwi , a non-profit organization centered on a six-acre taro farm, before emptying into the wide mouth of Kane‘ohe Bay. So the health of the kalo is an indicator of health for the whole ecosystem,” Mar explains.

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Acre Plantation Cultivation Crop 125

Modern Farmer

JANUARY 9, 2024

The aim of the fair is to strengthen and maintain the biodiversity of the region’s gardens, milpas , coffee plantations and cacao plantations,” said Martínez in an interview a few days after the most recent edition of the fair, which he helped fundraise. And the other is that the young people just don’t want to keep farming.

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Crop Plantation Seeding Agriculture 114

The Lunatic Farmer

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

Ecological farmers may not agree on everything, but one thing we all agree on these days are these 5 essential elements: 1. The devastation among Florida’s orange groves and the diseases attacking coffee trees are symptomatic of one thing: violating all of the above ecological pillars. Let’s go to the heart of the matter.

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Poultry Livestock Pasture Ecology 71

Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The ‘Mother Tree’ at Star Hill Farm. The university began the project by collecting 300 distinct families of white oak from around the US and planting them at Star Hill Farm, the home of Maker’s Mark. That first year, farm workers and researchers planted 1,700 individual trees.

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Ranching Acre Forestry Processing 140