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  • Urban Farms Are Stepping Up Their Roles in Communities Nationwide

    Urban farms across the United States are bringing affordable, fresh, and healthy foods to communities facing food insecurity and are forming connections with residents along the way.

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  • Can an Urban Farm Run by Police Create Jobs, Feed People, and Build Trust?

    Dig Deep Farms provides sustainable jobs for people coming out of jail, who have a difficult time finding work. The farm employs about 15 people who grow food for county health initiatives, runs a job-training program for formerly incarcerated people, and operates a food hub to distribute fresh produce to people in need and recently increased its acreage to provide even more opportunities and resources.

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  • Hydroponics Help Urban Schools Grow Food Year-Round

    Middle and high schools around the country are embracing hydroponic farming. Hydroponics serves as an appealing, interdisciplinary teaching tool and a way to produce fresh, healthy food for students at school and within their communities. Several companies and startups, like Freight Farms, provide the resources for hydroponics farming to schools, with 16 K-12 schools currently using the technology.

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  • How One Rust Belt College Is Transforming Its Local Food System

    Kalamazoo Valley Community College is revitalizing the local food system by connecting people to farmers and educating the community about the system. The college is also providing a food hub that aggregates local farmers as well as free boxes of fresh food for students.

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  • Are Criollo Cattle a Regenerative Solution to a 1,200-Year Megadrought?

    The Criollo cattle's foraging patterns help manage fire-prone rangeland and restore native vegetation, while providing a cheaper alternative to conventional English beef cattle, like Angus. These cattle can be extremely beneficial in the arid environments of the American Southwest that experience long droughts and are more susceptible to wildfires.

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  • This San Francisco Supper Club Gives Youth a Chance to Reinvent Themselves

    Old Skool Café provides opportunities for youth, particularly those who were formerly incarcerated and/or in foster care, to gain life skills, job training, and receive help managing their finances, writing resumes and cover letters, build people skills, and strengthen interpersonal communication. The restaurant allows the youth to train for every position in an industry that generates 25% of the area’s jobs.

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  • This Pilot Program Is Supporting Tribal Food Sovereignty with Federal Dollars

    The Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations’ (FDPIR) Self-Determination Demonstration Project distributes food to tribal nations by allowing them to buy food from vendors within their own communities.The Project serves an average of 48,000 people each month, providing healthy, culturally relevant foods to low-income tribal members.

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  • To Cut Ocean Plastic Pollution, Aquaculture Turns to Renewable Gear

    Ocean Farms Supply makes and sells oyster harvest bags out of biodegradable materials, rather than plastic, to help cut down pollution. The company sells the bags locally but has also distributed them to other regions like Mexico, California, and Florida, so far replacing the use of 14 linear miles of the previously used polypropylene mesh.

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  • Will Climate Change Help Hybrid Grapes Take Root in the US Wine Industry?

    To combat extreme weather, pests, and disease brought on by climate change, the Heritage Grape Project produces wines that aim to conserve and promote hybrid grapes, which are becoming a beneficial option to help local viticulturists grow grapes in an ecologically and economically sound manner.

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  • In the Battle Over the Right to Repair, Open-Source Tractors Offer an Alternative

    Amid a growing “right to repair” movement, farmers are calling for new, open-source production models, like The Oggún, a universally designed, easily modified tractor that farmers can customize to fit their needs. Farmers have found that the tractor cuts down on repair costs by enabling them to fix it themselves or take it to a local mechanic, rather than working with large commercial manufacturers.

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