Cultivating Knowledge in Houston – Food Tank
Sweetwater Farms HTX, a family-owned urban farm based in Houston, Texas, is working to bridge the gap between agriculture and education. The farm serves as an access-point to fresh produce…
Growing Local Food and Relationships in Austin – Food Tank
Urban American Farmer, an organization based in Austin, Texas is working to build a communication network between farmers and consumers. Founder Trisha Bates offers a variety of services focused on…
The Cities without Hunger Model – Food Tank
Cities without Hunger Brazil is working to develop sustainable agriculture projects in urban areas across Brazil. The project works to transform empty lots into vegetable gardens and employs people to…
Cornell Urban Agriculture Courses Turn Research into Action for Cities – Food Tank
The Cornell Small Farms program recently released a series of online courses designed to help growers, nonprofits, and urban planners gain knowledge to support urban farm development. The Promise of…
Cornell City Agriculture Programs Flip Analysis into Motion for Cities – Meals Tank
The Cornell Small Farms program just lately launched a collection of on-line programs designed to assist growers, nonprofits, and concrete planners achieve data to assist city farm improvement. The Promise…
How Adding Rock Dust to Soil Could Help Get Carbon into the Ground
On a hot and humid August day near Geneva, New York, Garrett Boudinot stands in a field of hemp, the green stalks towering a foot or more over his 6-foot,…
Can Synthetic Palm Oil Help Save the World’s Tropical Forests?
Tom Jeffries and Tom Kelleher met at Rutgers University in the 1970s while studying industrially useful microbes. Jeffries went on to run a yeast genomics program at the U.S. Department…
From Fertilizer to Fuel: Can ‘Green’ Ammonia Be a Climate Fix?
In Minnesota, there’s a research farm peppered with wind turbines that, when in full swing, boasts an astonishingly low carbon footprint. The wind powers a chemical plant that makes ammonia,…
Edible Extinction: Why We Need to Revive Global Food Diversity
In August 2020, inside the cupping room of a London roastery, a team of botanists and baristas gathered to taste a coffee species that most believed had been lost forever.…
Salt Scourge: The Dual Threat of Warming and Rising Salinity
The Mekong Delta is under a chemical threat arguably more deadly for the long term than the Agent Orange deployed across it during the Vietnam War half a century ago.…