Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

If we’re really serious about forestalling famine, we need to stop feeding so much grain to livestock, and save the wheat, corn, and rice we grow for human consumption. The market for organic food, which has more than doubled in a decade, accounted for $58 billion in sales in 2021 in the United States alone. Photo submitted.

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Food Tank

JANUARY 27, 2025

The Crop Cycle: Stories with Deep Roots by Shane Mitchell Shane Mitchell spent nine years tracking down the history of fruits, vegetables, and grains in the American South to understand the regions relationship to food. These plants, she argues, offer a model of reciprocity, interconnectedness, and gratitude that the world can benefit from.

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Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Welch also provides tips on best shopping and harvesting practices to help eaters start cutting waste even before they reach the kitchen. The book is organized by season, with dishes ordered so that the reader can utilize the scraps from one recipe as a key ingredient in the next.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Isaiah White harvests kale at his familys fifth-generation farm in Warren County, where the U.S. Grover established a peach orchard in 1935, and cultivated grain and raised livestock until the late 1970s. Patrick Browns nephew Justice White pauses while harvesting organic purple kale. Across the road, peacocks shriek.

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Civil Eats

MAY 1, 2024

When Jeff Broberg and his wife, Erica, moved to their 170-acre bean and grain farm in Winona, Minnesota in 1986, their well water measured at 8.6 These nitrogen-based compounds, common in agricultural runoff, are linked to multiple cancers and health issues for those exposed. ppm for nitrates. I don’t blame them.”

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Through captivating case studies, Thurow’s hopeful book showcases farmers who have boldly gone against the grain of modern agriculture orthodoxy and are instead embracing regenerative practices—like agroecology and permaculture—that restore soil health, enhance biodiversity, and promote resilience against climate change.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

But Mars believes that a regenerative paradigm shift can heal much more than the soil, transforming all parts of an industrial agricultural system that both contributes to and risks disruption from the climate crisis. Might this obscure wheat contain within it a door to my own heritage?”

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