Civil Eats

JANUARY 15, 2024

John Zander’s family has owned a stretch of land along New Jersey’s southern coast for 30 years, but he only recently dubbed the farm “Cohansey Meadows.” Meadows for the term that residents of the region use to refer to the vast marshes that create a fluid transition between solid ground and the water of the Delaware Bay.

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Farming Farming Meadow Greenhouse 141

Civil Eats

MARCH 18, 2024

Three acres of meadows provide habitat for insects. I do think vineyard operators are not under the same stress of harvesting kale and rushing to market five days a week, so there’s a real cushion,” Whitlow said. “It In Napa in 2022, Whitlow remembered, a particularly searing heat wave hit right at harvest time.

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Farming Farming Meadow Crop 143

Caff

MARCH 4, 2024

Part Two: Direct-to-Consumer Flower Sales Stories, Tips, and E-commerce Our second webinar features Sunny Meadows Flower Farm. Established in Columbus, Ohio, in 2006, Sunny Meadows Flower Farm has become a beacon for sustainable, high-quality cut flowers, serving wholesale, retail, and wedding industries.

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Meadow Harvest Harvesting Harvester 52

Civil Eats

JUNE 27, 2024

She points out that most of the shellfish she harvests these days have been seeded manually by the town of Southampton and local universities, “almost like a science project,” she says. Volunteers help to hand-harvest the Shinnecock Kelp Farmers 2023-2024 sugar kelp haul on New York’s Shinnecock Bay. That’s not right.”

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Harvest Harvesting Harvester Farming 144

Sustainable Food Trust

APRIL 1, 2025

The farm is small with a remarkably diverse array of landscapes woodland, ancient meadows, a stream that runs through the farm drawing a broad range of creatures and birds. These completely edible urchins have not the kudos of the larger red urchins, but they are phenomenally plentiful and harvesting them keeps the seabed in balance.

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Food Farming Farming Acre 71

Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

I witnessed the age-old transhumance, in which Simmental, Jersey, and Charolais cows were transported to summer pastures in alpine meadows more than 4,000 feet in altitude, where they fed on wild flowers and lush grass to produce the exquisite Gruyère, Tomme, and Vacherin cheeses sold in village fromageries.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Typical wildflower meadows being grazed in southern Albania Outside the major cities, fresh fruit and vegetables still make up a significant proportion of the diet, and local varieties continue to retain a foothold, although their future is uncertain.

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