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“There’s nothing more simple or effective than a tree for sinking carbon, especially in places where we’ve been killing soils and releasing carbon for a long time,” enthuses Kaitie Adams. As director ...

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I once rented a pasture that adjoined a yard containing two apple and two pear trees. Every fall when the fruit ripened, the loaded trees would drop any blemished fruit early. The homeowner hated ...

At the Food as Medicine Summit in Chicago, surrounded by leaders in healthcare, food systems and policy, one topic stood out to me as both quietly revolutionary and urgently relevant: agroforestry. It ...

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Cocoa production in Côte d’Ivoire began in the 1950s in forests bordering Ghana, and progressively shifted west as trees were removed and soil exhausted. Côte d’Ivoire lost 217,866 hectares of ...

Silvopasture, a portmanteau of the Latin words "silva" (forest) and "pastura" (grazing), is a form of agroforestry that the U.S. Department of Agriculture describes as "the deliberate integration of ...

Jack Ray’s approach to farming — one that includes agroforestry, foraging and free ranging and pasture-raised chickens — at Treaster Kettle Farm shouldn’t come as a surprise. Before undertaking a ...