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Black Earth: A Family’s Journey from Enslavement to Reclamation

Civil Eats

In the months before Patrick Brown was born in November 1982, his father, Arthur, lay down on a road near the familys farm to prevent a caravan of yellow dump trucks from depositing toxic soil in his community. Patrick currently operates Brown Family Farms on the land that Byron worked as a sharecropper once he was freed.

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In Hawai‘i, Restoring Kava Helps Sustain Native Food Culture

Civil Eats

Kava has endured a long history of adversity, said Lakea Trask, a Hawaiian farmer and local activist who cultivates kava and other Native crops for Kanaka Kava , his familys farm-to-table restaurant in Kailua-Kona, on the Big Island. As recognition grows, so have opportunities for small-scale farming initiatives and environmental restoration.

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Beyond Farm to Table: How Chefs Can Support Climate-Friendly Food Systems

Civil Eats

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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Transforming the Delta

Food Environment and Reporting Network

flatland of small, half-abandoned towns surrounded by large, mechanized farms. The farms mostly grow commoditiessoybeans, corn, cotton, and rice. The history of how this happenedhow one of the countrys most fertile farming regions became a knot of poverty, hunger, and racial injusticeis complicated and painful.

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Climate Solutions for the Future of Coffee

Civil Eats

Climate change causes labor problems and hurts farm owners, too. With increasingly tight margins, farm owners can’t afford the upgrades needed to make their coffee production more water-efficient, and they can’t buy new cultivars that resist coffee rust and heat. A coffee plant wilts in the sun on a plantation near Manizales, Colombia.

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Our 2024 Food and Farming Holiday Book Gift Guide

Civil Eats

In the book, we meet Brandon Kaufman, a Kansas farmer who, after generations of family farming, plans “to get a divorce from wheat” to focus on perennials as a way to nurture the soil and the vital underground network of insects and microorganisms within it. The book goes beyond the problems, too.

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Coffee as we know it is in danger. Can we breed a better cup?

Agritecture Blog

Workers dump harvested coffee cherries into a truck on a farm in Brazil on June 2. It’s threatened by climate change, by a deadly fungal disease that has devastated crops, and by risky farming practices. A coffee producer looks at a plant infected with leaf rust at his Costa Rican farm in 2015.

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