Food Tank

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Mijenta grows agave without pesticides or herbicides. They practice biodynamic agriculture to encourage biodiversity and cultivate successful vineyards without pesticides or herbicides. The brewery is located on a small but busy farm with apple orchards, market gardens, two greenhouses, an apiary, and a flock of chickens.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 15, 2024

With $3,000 allocated for equipment and many hours spent watching YouTube tutorials, he built a steady farmers market following, selling tender, week-old pea, sunflower, radish and broccoli sprouts. One of Kupu’s two employees, she started orchard farming at 16. Now 27, DiLillo has seen his business blossom. Kaʻinapu Cavasso agrees.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 24, 2023

Two organizations want to put an end to the wild west of claims and prove, through certification, that food labeled regenerative is genuinely the gold standard of sustainability and not just another marketing buzzword. Land to Market frames its products as coming “from land that is regenerating.” But it’s not quite that simple.

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UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Today, following many years in both the landscape design/build business, while also raising and marketing 100% grass-fed beef and registered Angus breeding stock, I’ve learned some more about soil science. No soil amendments, no herbicides, no pesticides, no fungicides ever used.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 21, 2022

By Rowan Jacobsen , July 24, 2019 An unhealthy alliance between almonds and honeybees By Paige Embry , June 20, 2019 In January, with the almond bloom in California’s orchards a month away, beekeepers across the country were fretting over their hives. The tight market has forced growers and brokers to expand their search for bees. “It

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JANUARY 11, 2023

By Rowan Jacobsen , July 24, 2019 An unhealthy alliance between almonds and honeybees By Paige Embry , June 20, 2019 In January, with the almond bloom in California’s orchards a month away, beekeepers across the country were fretting over their hives. The tight market has forced growers and brokers to expand their search for bees. “It

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

By Rowan Jacobsen , July 24, 2019 An unhealthy alliance between almonds and honeybees By Paige Embry , June 20, 2019 In January, with the almond bloom in California’s orchards a month away, beekeepers across the country were fretting over their hives. The tight market has forced growers and brokers to expand their search for bees. “It

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In a county that was intentionally poisonedand a world suffering from a changing climatehe is reviving the soil under his feet by transitioning away from pesticide-dependent row crops like tobacco to industrial hemp, which is known to sequester carbon and remediate soil, and using earth-friendly organic and regenerative methods.

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RR2CS

MARCH 8, 2022

Through careful observation of land and climate, Jenna and Thomas have gradually built two cabins, a greenhouse, an organic market garden, and apiary. Today, Jenna and Thomas are in the process of rebuilding the market vegetable and herb garden, while focusing on restoring health and vitality back into the compacted hayfield.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 11, 2023

A disused orchard that had been stewarded by the Sisters of St. Jack’s powers hundreds of homes while producing a diverse array of fresh veggies for local markets. Mark explained that they grow their produce without pesticides or herbicides as it is the soil that will determine the health of everything that grows out of it.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 30, 2024

Two days later, Vilsack landed in Michigan, where his travel schedule attempted to trace that connection, with a first stop at a Detroit middle school followed by a visit to Williamston to talk about helping farmers access “new and better markets.” “We’re.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Even monarch butterflies have lost habitat due to the prevalence of monocrop avocado orchards, along the once lush, biodiverse hillsides of Michoacán in Mexico. “Choose one from Chile and you might be furthering the extraction of much-needed fresh water.” Yet Eldridge is far from calling for an avocado boycott.

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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Maximizing Photosynthesis: The #1 Soil Health Building Approach B y: Chuck Schembre , Understanding Ag, LLC In the previous regenerative orchard blog, we discussed the connection between perennial crops and soil fungi , and introduced the importance of maximizing photosynthesis on the orchard floor. Historically in the western U.S.,

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 20, 2023

an hour for his work in the mango orchards. Diego Lucero, an organizer at the Fray Matías Human Rights Center, a migrant advocacy group in Tapachula, says that Haitians are more likely to be hired for work in agriculture, as opposed to public-facing jobs in restaurants or markets. A migrant picking mangoes in Tapachula.

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