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Summer reading 2024: Our recommended food and farming reads

Sustainable Food Trust

Graves draws upon the example of Troed y Rhiw Organics in Ceredigion, run by the Sustainable Food Trust’s Editor, Alicia Miller, and her partner Nathan Richards. Agriculture had not yet quite arrived as a practice and food was abundant.

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Can Seaweed Save American Shellfish?

Civil Eats

Shellfish are a traditional food source for the Shinnecock; they were also once the backbone of Long Island’s robust commercial fishing industry. And they can spell disaster for coastal communities, as 3 billion people globally rely on “blue foods” from the ocean, including shellfish, as a primary source of protein.

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HOMESTEAD TSUNAMI

The Lunatic Farmer

We’ll offer havens of protection and nourishment to lead our culture into stable families, fertile soil, nourishing food, working faith, and overall health. They don’t watch TV all evening; they can tomatoes and chase fireflies in the meadow. They make great patron saints to buy authentic food and keep me in business.

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Measuring and valuing: Nature

Sustainable Food Trust

In this series, we explore the role of metrics in transitioning to a more sustainable food and farming system, and we meet some of the people who are leading the way. For example, is ‘x’ hectares of woodland, or ‘y’ hectares of species rich hay meadow, good? Or is it too little? At what level do we move from good to bad?

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Fifty years of nurturing nature

Sustainable Food Trust

The 50 years of farming at Bwlchwernen, according to the interconnected principles of health, ecology and a circular economy, have not only stewarded the farm’s natural biodiversity as a complete and thriving ecosystem, but also created the conditions to increase and improve its biodiversity potential.

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Food and Farming at the Forefront of Labour’s Missions for Change – September 2024

Sustainable Food Trust

Farming and food production are central to UK society. The importance of a sustainable and regenerative future for food and farming is integral to three of these missions: economic stability and growth, health and renewing the NHS, and greening the economy to reach net zero commitments. [i] This level of ambition is needed again now.

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How Crop Insurance Prevents Some Farmers From Adapting to Climate Change

Civil Eats

He planted wheat and other grains directly into the meadows and relied solely on rainfall for much of his acreage. food supply. Irrigated crops receive higher payouts than dryland crops, while farmers often risk their coverage to engage in some of the most ecologically sound practices. It soon proved worth it.

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