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  • Can Discount Grocer Lidl Offer Better Food Access in DC's Ward 7?

    Discount German grocery chain Lidl operates more than 20 stores in D.C. and surrounding areas and allows residents to easily access affordable, nutritious foods. It also hires local residents, providing comprehensive benefits and job opportunities for locals.

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  • Adapting Corn for Tortillas—and New Markets—in the Pacific Northwest

    The Organic Seed Alliance is running corn seed trials to find a variety that can grow in the Pacific Northwest’s short growing season to improve local farmers’ climate crisis resiliency.

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  • Some Regenerative Farms Are Weathering California's Unprecedented Rainfall

    Farmers in California practicing regenerative organic agriculture are weathering the heavy rainfall better than their peers because regenerative practices improve soil health allowing more water to infiltrate and stay in the soil.

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  • Can This Beef Cooperative Become ‘the West's Largest Climate-Smart Ranching Program'?

    The Country Beef Natural cooperative partners ranchers with scientists to help them learn about the best regenerative practices for the land their herds graze on and monitor whether new practices are improving the health of the land.

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  • Medicaid Is a New Tool to Expand Healthy Food Access

    Project Bread is a local food-assistance organization that provides medically-tailored meals to people in need, specifically those with diseases or ailments that worsen with poor nutrition. Organization coordinators can send grocery store gift cards and kitchen supplies or sign the patient up for cooking classes or nutrition counseling. In its first two years, the program served 5,000 patients, and a recent evaluation found that 25% were no longer food insecure after participating for six months.

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  • Is This Biochar's Big, Carbon-Rich Moment?

    Biochar, charcoal made by heating organic biomass like forest debris, can be used as an amendment to improve soil health and sequester carbon. The charcoal is incredibly porous, so it holds nutrients, water, and carbon.

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  • Climate Change Is Pushing Pacific Northwest Farmers to Protect Crops from Extreme Heat

    Fruit farmers in the Pacific Northwest are implementing mitigation strategies like shade, produce coatings, and water misters to protect their crops from extreme heat.

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  • Can This Chicken Company Solve America's Food Waste Problem?

    Do Good Foods makes chicken feed from supermarket surplus foods to keep food from ending up in landfills emitting methane.

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  • Absent Federal Oversight of Animal Agriculture Safety, States and Others Step Up for Change

    Organizations like Milk and Dignity are filling in the worker safety gaps left behind in federal regulations by working with farms to implement worker-driven protections.

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  • How a St. Louis Spice Drive Offers Refugees a Taste of Home

    The International Institute of St. Louis works with immigrants and refugees and partnered with a local grocer, Global Foods Market, to host an annual spice drive for those facing food insecurity. Spices aren’t normally thought of when people donate to food banks, but they can provide both flavor and a cultural connection to home. Last year’s drive collected nearly 30 pounds of spices and with matching donations, a total of 600 jars of spices were given to people facing food insecurity.

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