Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In 2021, he carried out the ultimate act of reclamation, purchasing the plantation house and surrounding 2.5 Farming Through Four Generations In the early 19th century, Oakley Grove plantation was owned by a medical doctor named Lafayette Browne and his wife, Mary Ann Falcon Browne.

Plantation 144

Plantation Farming Farming Acre 144

Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 31, 2023

A gap year of just travelling didn’t feel right, so he took a job on a palm oil plantation in Papua New Guinea. He always knew that eventually he would return to Essington Farm, but first he wanted to see a bit more of the world. In 2005, aged 23, he returned to the farm.

Farming 52

Farming Farming Straw Pasture 52

Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 1, 2024

On my own farm this period is remembered by a 25-acre Scots pine plantation which was naturally regenerated on land that had previously grown wheat. The profitability of livestock farming in the north is not high. Dramatic changes started to occur at the outbreak of the Second World War.

Ruralism 52

Ruralism Farming Farming Food 52

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. After World War I, Blacks began to migrate to cities in the North, looking for more opportunityand less lynching.

Acre 108

Acre Farming Farming Crop 108

Civil Eats

MAY 6, 2024

We found that when these natural elements were included in croplands, and also for forest plantations, that species abundance and species richness can be similar. One of the main examples is the wolf population in the American West—and you have in Montana, Idaho, and California issues with predation of livestock by predators.”

Farming 143

Farming Farming Pesticide Agriculture 143

Civil Eats

JUNE 24, 2024

But through consolidation and dependence on a single crop, big plantations in Central America and the foreign corporations that run them have also [left a legacy of] political monoculture in the region. There are also subtle downsides to taste and nutrition.

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Supply Chain Food Manufacturing Technology 139

Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

—Matthew Wheeland Countering Dispossession, Reclaiming Land: A Social Movement Ethnography By David Gilbert Along the slopes of a volcano in Indonesia, a group of Minangkabau Indigenous agricultural workers began quietly reclaiming their land in 1993, growing cinnamon trees, chilies, eggplants, and other foods on the edges of plantations.

Food 145

Food Farming Farming Forage 145

The Lunatic Farmer

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

They grow one thing, till underneath to suppress vegetation, have no soil cover, and use no livestock. There is not an orchard, citrus grove, coffee plantation, almond farm, or pecan forest that wouldn’t benefit from poultry especially and other livestock generally. Extend living vegetation (no fallow) 5. anywhere in the world.

Poultry 77

Poultry Livestock Ecology Pasture 77