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Sustainable Agriculture and Food Waste: Does the Ugly Produce Movement Help?

Globalization, Food Waste, and Individual Responsibilities Globalization in the information age has allowed societies to recognize humanity as an interconnected global village where every action we take has a ripple effect on others. This shifting paradigm, combined with pressing economic, social, and environmental factors, has driven humanity to make behavioral changes on the individual level. One such change is auditing stages of the food supply chain in [...]

Sustainable Agriculture and Food Waste: Does the Ugly Produce Movement Help?2024-11-30T22:37:53-08:00

Sustainable Farming Practices: Farming Operations Optimized for the Future

Sustainable Farming Practices: Optimizing The Sustainability of Your Farming Operation What is sustainable farming? Organic Farming, Agroecology, Permaculture, Agroforestry Sustainability is widely defined as the ability to meet current needs and demands without compromising the ability to do so in the future. Like most industries, there is a widespread consensus that agriculture must make maximum efforts towards sustainability. While social and environmental responsibility may be motivating factors, [...]

Sustainable Farming Practices: Farming Operations Optimized for the Future2024-11-11T23:09:22-08:00

Shellfish Aquaculture and The “Supertray” Shellfish Grow-Out System

The Process of Shellfish Aquaculture Shellfish aquaculture, also known as shellfish farming, is the cultivation of shellfish such as oysters, clams, mussels, and scallops. The process begins by producing larvae in hatcheries, then moving them to nurseries, and finally transferring them to grow-outsites that may be directly on the sea bed or suspended in the water using rafts or longlines[1]. The many positive aspects to shellfish aquaculture [...]

Shellfish Aquaculture and The “Supertray” Shellfish Grow-Out System2024-07-27T01:27:40-07:00

The Science of Berries: Cultivation, Harvest, and Storage

What Is a Berry? To understand what a berry is, it is important to distinguish between the botanical definition of a berry and the commonly accepted definition. Flowering plants have ovaries that develop into fruits that contain seeds after fertilization. In the botanical definition, a berry is a fruit with seeds that have developed from a single ovary of a single flower. It is fleshy throughout and therefore [...]

The Science of Berries: Cultivation, Harvest, and Storage2024-07-09T21:41:30-07:00
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