Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Patrick Brown, who was named North Carolinas Small Farmer of the Year by North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University this year, grows almost 200 acres of industrial hemp for both oil and fiber, and 11 acres and several greenhouses of vegetablesbeets, kale, radishes, peppers, okra, and bok choy.

Plantation 139

Plantation Farming Farming Acre 139

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Large plantations reemerged in the Delta, worked by sharecroppers rather than slaves. In 1944, International Harvester tested the first mechanical cotton picker on a plantation just south of Clarksdale, Mississippi. He had spent 25 years working in food manufacturing, mostly outside Arkansas. But he has bigger plans.

Acre 89

Acre Farming Farming Crop 89

Civil Eats

JUNE 24, 2024

The ability to manufacture cold has shaped not just our diet and health, she argues, but our economy, landscape, and geopolitics. Civil Eats spoke with Twilley about her book, how refrigeration has transformed our relationship with food, and the implications of feeding the world’s seemingly insatiable appetite for manufactured cold.

Supply Chain 92

Supply Chain Food Manufacturing Technology 92