Civil Eats

APRIL 22, 2024

Arizona has been at the forefront of conservation efforts, protecting CWRs on public lands like the WCBA, at botanical gardens like at the Desert Museum, and at seed banks. Farmers plant seeds deep in the soil, use passive rainwater harvesting, and rely on hardy desert-adapted seeds. Our seeds are very resilient.

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Seeding Crop Agriculture Agriculture 132

Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Seed detective Adam Alexander travels to the Kor çë region to discover how regenerative horticulture is holding up. Collective farms grew local varieties and saved the seed of landraces that flourished in the varied growing environments across the country. In many regions farmers began planting modern, imported cultivars.

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Seeding Food Maize Cultivation 124

Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 6, 2024

As part of my vocation here in Oaxaca, Mexico, I offer storytelling “sessions” about cacao and maize. Recently harvested cacao pods collected in a sack, ready to be carried to the village for fermenting. A local farmer carrying his cacao harvest home on a local road. Countless clients have asked me if I “do” (i.e.,

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Harvest Harvesting Harvester Food 83

Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 9, 2023

On a farm in West Wales, Nathan Richards (pictured) is beginning to harvest his first small commercial crop of peaches and nectarines. Simultaneous harvest failures across major crop-producing regions are increasingly likely , linked to a strongly meandering jet stream which can trigger concurrent extreme weather events.

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Crop Maize Food Production 52

Food Environment and Reporting Network

MAY 28, 2024

If the biotech companies defeat maize in its center of origin, it will embolden them to do the same in other centers of origin,” said Tania Monserrat Téllez, an organizer with Sin Maiz, No Hay Pais (Without Corn, There Is No Nation), a coalition of groups in Mexico supporting the ban. Photo by Omar Torres/AFP via Getty Images.

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Maize Science Food Crop 143