Advancing transparency, land stewardship, sustainability and flavor. This story was produced in partnership with Slow Food USA. Wine, one of the oldest alcoholic beverages, has gone through expansive iterations over many centuries. Dating back to 7000-6600 BCE at the early Chinese Neolithic site of Jiahu, the earliest form was a fermented mixture of rice, honey and…
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By Joy Manning
The Birds and the…Beef? How Regenerative Grasslands Restore Habitat for Birds
A new partnership between Panorama Organic and the National Audubon Society adds 1 million acres of regenerative grasslands for the preservation of birds while producing sustainable, grass-fed beef. Photo (above) by Candice Vivien You’ve seen the headlines: Beef is destroying the planet. You’ve heard all about the greenhouse gases and pollution a typical beef operation…
We Are What We Eat — and We Must Make Food Decisions With the Climate Crisis in Mind
Because while the food system is being hit hard by the climate crisis, it also plays a sizable role in causing of the problem, accounting for one third of the world’s emissions. This story was produced in partnership with Civil Eats. If we had been told, a decade ago, that so many climate-fueled disasters would…
Backyard Buffalo Farm
Raising water buffalo for milk (and yogurt) in Northeast Florida Growing up in western India, Punita Patel was accustomed to drinking buffalo milk and all its delicious and nutritious by-products, like paneer, yogurt, and ghee. But when she immigrated to the United States at age 17, she found buffalo milk to be more elusive. Cow…
By Bruce Cole
Edible Pursuit: Largest Tomato Plant
The world’s largest tomato plant was grown in the experimental greenhouse at Walt Disney World Resort. It produced how many tomatoes over 16 months? 7,500 13,000 32,000 The answer is 32,000. The world’s largest tomato tree was grown in the experimental greenhouse at Walt Disney World Resort. It produced over 32,000 tomatoes in the first…
Seed Saving: The Opportunities and Challenges
Saving seeds from our favorite crops and flowers for the next growing season might seem like a humble tradition, like something your grandparents had been doing for years, hoping you’d notice. But like many humble traditions, there is wisdom in seed saving, as it can provide insight into how we might combat our changing climate…