Modern Farmer

JANUARY 15, 2024

Once home to orchid farms, the neighborhood, which lies about half an hour from downtown Honolulu, still retains a rural air, complete with roaming chickens, despite an influx of residential development. One of Kupu’s two employees, she started orchard farming at 16. Kaʻinapu Cavasso agrees.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 29, 2023

He and his compañeras and compañeros (or compas, as they call each other) named their co-op Tierra y Libertad (Land and Freedom)—in honor of the rallying cry of Mexico’s rural revolution of 1910–20. ” Center: Ramon Torres prunes blueberry bushes at the Tierra y Libertad cooperative.

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Greenhouse Farming Farming Food 52

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. It reads as a love letter to his land, his herd, and his rural community and a manifesto on how and why to farm in a way that protects them all.

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