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Marketing that Matters: Audubon Seal Connects Ranchers and Consumers

Food Tank

Birds that live on grasslands rely on the ecosystem for everything from foraging to nesting. The most recent North American Grasslands and Birds Report from the Audubon Society finds that 62 percent of grasslands that once covered the continent have been lost since colonization.

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Why the West Needs Prairie Dogs

Modern Farmer

Though black-tailed prairie dogs have a long-standing reputation as pests, their ingenious tunnel systems and industrious prairie pruning make them one of the Wests primary ecosystem engineers. Bison like to wallow in the dirt exposed by prairie dogs, and graze on the nutritious grass and plants that resprout after a prairie dog pruning.

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Good Goats Make Good Neighbors

Civil Eats

Happy Goat’s humans also assist by doing some pruning to ensure that clearance extends to six vertical feet. We’re building topsoil, we’re sequestering carbon, we’re improving the forage, the trees, the grasses,” says Fouch, who designed the farm and is also an associate educator with the Savory Institute. “We

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Milk from the desert: How grazing camels boost environmental and human health in water-stressed regions

Sustainable Food Trust

During the course of a year, the camels forage on different types of land that include harvested fields, forest, sacred groves and what is classified as revenue land. The Raika state that camel foraging has a positive pruning effect on the acacias and other trees, inducing them to branch out stronger.

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Hot? Hungry? Step Inside These Food Forests

Modern Farmer

The outcome could be a network of “food forests,” community spaces where volunteers tend fruit trees and other edible plants for neighbors to forage. The food bank is also organizing workshops on growing, pruning, and harvesting, as well as courses on cooking with mesquite flour.

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Our 2023 Food and Farming Holiday Book Gift Guide

Civil Eats

Our Staff Reporter Grey Moran has a delightful article about foraging , published in Grist, included in the book. smith Slow Drinks: A Field Guide to Foraging and Fermenting Seasonal Sodas, Botanical Cocktails, Homemade Wines, and More By Danny Childs Danny Childs studied ethnobotany in college. To make an amaro (relatively easy!)

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Coalition Letter Supporting USDA Secretary Nominee Brooke Rollins

NASDA

(AMPI) Associated Oregon Hazelnut Industries Association of Food and Drug Officials (AFDO) Association of Texas Soil and Water Conservation Districts Bayer Brownsville Irrigation District California Ag Irrigation Association California Alfalfa and Forage Association California Association of Wheat Growers California Association of Winegrape Growers (..)

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