Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Mattingly is testing for vigor, bolting, acorn production and elements important to a barrel manufacturer: tannins and taste. But it’s also incredibly important ecologically. As bourbon ages in an oak barrel, the wood swells and shrinks with the weather, pushing the alcohol in and out of its pores.

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Ranching Acre Forestry Processing 140

Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

—Matthew Wheeland Countering Dispossession, Reclaiming Land: A Social Movement Ethnography By David Gilbert Along the slopes of a volcano in Indonesia, a group of Minangkabau Indigenous agricultural workers began quietly reclaiming their land in 1993, growing cinnamon trees, chilies, eggplants, and other foods on the edges of plantations.

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Food Farming Farming Forage 145

Food Tank

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

millionofthese workers are employed in the food sectorcultivating our produce, manufacturing our processed foods, slaughtering our meat and bussing our tables. DepartmentofAgriculture (USDA) the last plantation and have advocatedforincreased supportforBlack, Indigenous, Latinx and Asian farmers.

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Food Plantation Processing Ecology 97