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Butcher profile: Will Simkin, Essington Farm Shop, Wolverhampton

Sustainable Food Trust

A gap year of just travelling didn’t feel right, so he took a job on a palm oil plantation in Papua New Guinea. The canvas covers a spacious area with deep straw bedding, and towards the back is a good sized ‘run’ with one corner designated by the inhabitants as the ‘toilet’ – pigs are very clean and don’t soil their resting and feeding area.

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As the Salton Sea Shrinks, Agriculture’s Legacy Turns to Dust

Civil Eats

Date palm plantations and orchards cover the eastern Coachella Valley to the north. If the emissions aren’t from the shoreline, no amount of straw bales is going to improve the air quality,” says John Gillies, an atmospheric physicist at the Desert Research Institute in Reno, Nevada. 1 commodity for the last 64 years.