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Black Earth: A Family’s Journey from Enslavement to Reclamation

Civil Eats

Photo credit: Cornell Watson) Ideally, wed get this sweet corn in the ground today, he says, indicating a bag of organic seed and a nearby half-acre plot of loose brown soil. In 2021, he carried out the ultimate act of reclamation, purchasing the plantation house and surrounding 2.5

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In Hawai‘i, Restoring Kava Helps Sustain Native Food Culture

Civil Eats

By reviving Hawaiian self-sufficiency and healing the scars left by plantations, Trask said, awa [presents] an opportunity to restore our sovereignty and our ancestral connection to the land. The rise of plantation agriculture uprooted Native communities, replacing local food systems with sprawling sugarcane and pineapple fields.

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Transforming the Delta

Food Environment and Reporting Network

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. The silver lining of COVID is that everyone is way more focused on supply chain security, she told me.

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Can Linen Make a Comeback in North America?

Modern Farmer

But the varieties now springing up in places that have long been dominated by corn, wheat and soybeans aren’t meant to be used for seed. Photo: Zoe Schaeffer) Yet truly sustainable linen will be expensive, at least early on, when the supply chains are still getting up to speed. The latter tended to fare better in the North.

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Beyond Farm to Table: How Chefs Can Support Climate-Friendly Food Systems

Civil Eats

It’s a tedious but worthwhile process: drying mushrooms, vegetables, and herbs, making pickles and slaw, and preserving garlic blossoms and coriander seeds in airtight jars before these ingredients vanish with the end of the season. are preparing for the dwindling of food in the coming winter. Take chocolate , for instance. percent [of U.S.

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Climate Solutions for the Future of Coffee

Civil Eats

A coffee plant wilts in the sun on a plantation near Manizales, Colombia. Atomo extracts compounds from ingredients such as ramón seeds , which the ancient Mayans used to make a hot beverage with notes of chocolate and dark-roasted coffee. They’re all looking to address supply chain problems and quality issues.”

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Coffee as we know it is in danger. Can we breed a better cup?

Agritecture Blog

Most coffee (which comes from roasting and grinding the seed of the plant’s cherry-like fruit) is generally perceived as tasting too harsh. The British had deforested large swaths of land to create industrial-style arabica coffee plantations, turning it into one of the world’s leading coffee producers.

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