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Opinion: To Find the Future of Food, We Need to Look to the Past

Modern Farmer

Catastrophe loomed everywhere I looked: in the dust bowls on the once-fertile plains of central Turkey, in the vanishing lakes of Mexico City, in the fetid cesspools outside the factory farms of North Carolina, in the disease-ravaged olive trees of Puglia, in the rapid wiping away of diverse food webs in every biome.

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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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Changing How We Farm Might Protect Wild Mammals—and Fight Climate Change

Civil Eats

They play critical roles in their ecosystems, sustaining and keeping in check species higher and lower on the food chain. First of all, farmland reduces mammals’ natural habitats and diminishes their ability to find shelter as well as food and prey, explained Koen Kuipers, a researcher at Radboud University in the Netherlands.

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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: Farmers, workers and community

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. Here, Alicia Miller, Content Editor for the Sustainable Food Trust, looks at why farmers, workers and communities are the bedrock of a resilient food and farming system.

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TWO DAYS OF TRUTH NUMBER TWO

The Lunatic Farmer

Learn how to use energy medicine, essential oils, healing herbs, homeopathic remedies, supplements, and nutrient-dense foods to create a resilient body, mind and spirit. Date: June 24-25, 2002 Location: Polyface Farm 43 Pure Meadows Ln, Swoope, VA 24479 Space is LIMITED to 300 people For more information and to purchase tickets click HERE.

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