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Building a Food Culture

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Work Ethic Food businesses require a lot of work, famously known in the agriculture world with farmers working early mornings and late nights to harvest, pack, process and ship food items. This is also well-known in foodservice with the fast-paced work required in back and front of house.

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Black Farmers Still Await Debt Relief as Lawsuits Block Promised Aid

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After the 2020 election, the Biden administration and a new Democratic majority in Congress promised to rectify the results of years of discrimination and systemic racism, and incoming Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack and House Agriculture Committee Chair David Scott identified justice for Black farmers as a top priority.

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Feed the Rich, Save the Planet?

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For 15 years, the Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture tried to fix the food system by educating children and producing new farmers. On the morning of February 7, 2020, office employees at the Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture filed one by one into meetings with management. Some came out crying.

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Blue Hill at Stone Barns Tells a Beautiful Story. Former Employees Say It’s Too Good to Be True.

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Schaible kept a notebook in his back pocket to write down everything he learned: how sheep-grazing patterns affect flavor, the proper way to butcher old dairy cattle. No chef has shaped the 21st-century conversation about the connections between agriculture , cuisine , ecology , health , and climate change more profoundly than Barber.

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How I Got My Job: Founding a Hip and Sustainable Canned Wine Company

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I got a full-ride scholarship to UMass Amherst, where I majored in sustainable agriculture and gender studies and minored in English literature. UMass has an incredible sustainable agriculture program and an amazing community garden that feeds into a co-op vegan restaurant. Only 30 percent of glass bottles are recycled in the U.S.,

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Coffee News Recap, 7 Oct: Severe weather forecast across several of Brazil’s coffee-growing regions, Nestlé commits US $1 billion to sustainable coffee production & other stories

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Agency for the Valorization of Agricultural Products (AVPA) opens entries for eighth annual Coffees Roasted at Origin competition. Mon, 3 Oct. Samples must be submitted before 31 October 2022 and the awards ceremony will take place in December. Indian coffee exporters report concerns over declining imports to US and Europe. Tue, 4 Oct.

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Coffee News Recap, 6 May: Vietnamese coffee production could drop 10% in 2022/23, China’s coffee imports to increase by 5% in 2022 & other stories

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The US roaster visited the White House as part of President Biden’s promotion of small business growth in the US. United States Department of Agriculture report states China’s 2022 coffee imports to increase 5%. Mon, 2 May. Beans Coffee Club becomes official coffee partner for electronics retailer Currys.

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