Tag: Interesting Reads

A Wild, Windy Spring Is Creating a Soil Erosion Nightmare for Farmers

Feed your gut bacteria: dirt and whole foods

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/whats-up-with-the-bacteria-in-your-gut

Regenerative Agriculture and Human Health | Civil Eats

https://civileats.com/2022/05/10/ergothioneine-regenerative-agriculture-longetive-soil-health-bionutrients-crops-producing-farming-human-health/

Regenerative Honey | Civil Eats

https://civileats.com/2022/05/09/in-the-face-of-numerous-threats-bees-are-producing-less-honey/ On our farm, where we attempt to farm regeneratively, a third of the farm has been planted in shelter belts with flowering shrubs and pollinator-friendly cover. Each year a local beekeeper brings his hives there for the summer.

Fresh Flour, Amy Halloran

https://amyhalloran.substack.com/p/fresh-flour-facts?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNzMxNTE4MiwicG9zdF9pZCI6NTM3NjQ2ODIsIl8iOiJQRnRtKyIsImlhdCI6MTY1MTkzMzg5MSwiZXhwIjoxNjUxOTM3NDkxLCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMTA0NjMyIiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.BA8bif1SwWxWaMhVJMqdnrmP4hxrr1igyqAZoyClReM&s=r

Gut Health, from National Geographic

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/whats-up-with-the-bacteria-in-your-gut?rid=78D51AF7E514CC4C0676BCE041149811&cmpid=org=ngp::mc=crm-email::src=ngp::cmp=editorial::add=Health_20220506_Control

As Dollar Stores Proliferate, Some Communities Push Back | Civil Eats

https://civileats.com/2022/04/13/dollar-stores/

On the Ground in Ukraine With World Central Kitchen | Civil Eats

https://civileats.com/2022/03/11/on-the-ground-in-ukraine-with-world-central-kitchen/

Relocating farmland could turn back clock twenty years on carbon emissions, say scientists

https://phys.org/news/2022-03-relocating-farmland-clock-twenty-years.html

What Is the Future of Organic? | Civil Eats

https://civileats.com/2022/02/14/what-is-the-future-of-organic/

The world’s most unwanted plants help trees make more fruit

https://phys.org/news/2022-02-world-unwanted-trees-fruit.html

Mark Bittman: Whole Wheat Bread Is the Key to a Better Food System

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/26/opinion/culture/mark-bittman-whole-wheat-bread.html

Don Lewis Is Reviving the Grain Economy in New York’s Hudson Valley | Civil Eats

https://civileats.com/2021/10/25/don-lewis-is-reviving-the-grain-economy-in-new-yorks-hudson-valley/

Truly Regenerative Farming, in a Nutshell

https://www.ramblinfarmers.com/blog/regenerative-farming-in-a-nutshell

Inside Google’s regenerative agriculture play | Greenbiz

https://www.greenbiz.com/article/inside-googles-regenerative-agriculture-play

Canada Makes a Move to Conserve Wetlands and Store Carbon | Civil Eats

https://civileats.com/2021/07/30/canada-makes-a-move-to-conserve-wetlands-and-store-carbon/

Flour Power – YES! Magazine

https://www.yesmagazine.org/issue/building-bridges/2019/11/13/flour-power

Spring Wheat Crop Quality Tumbles, Some Farmers Abandon Fields | AgWeb

https://www.agweb.com/news/crops/wheat/spring-wheat-crop-quality-tumbles-some-farmers-abandon-fields

Common Ground: “Soil is our livelihood and we better protect it, or we’re screwed.”

https://montanafreepress.org/2021/07/06/regenerative-agriculture-evitalizing-rural-montana-economies/

Farming without disturbing soil could cut agriculture’s climate impact by 30% – new research

https://theconversation.com/farming-without-disturbing-soil-could-cut-agricultures-climate-impact-by-30-new-research-157153

Reduction of phytic acid and enhancement of bioavailable micronutrients in food grains

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4325021/

Troubleshooting Sourdough: Your Questions Answered • The Prairie Homestead

https://www.theprairiehomestead.com/2020/04/sourdough-troubleshooting.html

Food supplements that alter gut bacteria could ‘cure’ malnutrition | Science | AAAS

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/04/food-supplements-alter-gut-bacteria-could-cure-malnutrition

How to Properly Store Flour

https://www.thespruceeats.com/how-to-store-flour-1389337

Op-ed: After the Pandemic Flour Craze, Micro-Millers Take Stock | Civil Eats

https://civileats.com/2021/03/19/the-dust-has-settled-on-the-pandemic-baking-trend-did-it-reshape-regional-grain-economies/

COVID-19 will likely be with us forever. Here’s how we’ll live with it.

https://api.nationalgeographic.com/distribution/public/amp/science/2021/01/covid-19-will-likely-be-with-us-forever-heres-how-well-live-with-it

A healthy microbiome builds a strong immuneh system that could help defeat COVID-19

https://theconversation.com/a-healthy-microbiome-builds-a-strong-immune-system-that-could-help-defeat-covid-19-145668

A Guide to Common Wheat Flours | Serious Eats

https://www.seriouseats.com/2020/07/wheat-flour-guide.html

Does Flour Go Bad? Here’s What to Know about Different Types – PureWow

https://www.purewow.com/food/does-flour-go-bad

How King Arthur’s Supply Chain Overcame the 2020 Quarantine Flour ‘Shortage’ – Eater

https://www.eater.com/22178960/king-arthur-flour-supply-chain-baking-boom

New glyphosate papers point to “urgency” for more research on chemical impact to human health – U.S. Right to Know

https://usrtk.org/pesticides/new-glyphosate-papers-point-to-urgency-for-more-research-on-chemical-impact-to-human-health/

Warren Buffett Says You Can Increase Your Overall Happiness by Making 1 Simple Choice | Inc.com

https://www.inc.com/marcel-schwantes/warren-buffett-says-you-can-increase-your-overall-happiness-by-making-1-simple-choice.html

Community Based Foods

https://montanafreepress.org/2020/08/21/community-based-food-processors-make-montana-food-resilient/

Watch “Protecting Your Family From COVID-19 by Dr. David Price” on YouTube

Stress Baking More Than Usual? – The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/30/style/bread-baking-coronavirus.html

Don’t panic about shopping, getting delivery or accepting packages – The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/26/dont-panic-about-shopping-getting-delivery-or-accepting-packages/

Microbes and sourdough and you

Inside the science of sourdough bread December 19, 2018 / Rob Dunn

Rural Kansas is dying. I drove 1,800 miles to find out why

https://newfoodeconomy.org/rural-kansas-depopulation-commodity-agriculture/

In Kansas, there’s plenty of local wheat. So why is there no local flour?

https://newfoodeconomy.org/local-flour-local-bread-kansas-regional-grains/

What 3,000-year-old Egyptian wheat tells us about the genetics of our daily bread

https://theconversation.com/what-3-000-year-old-egyptian-wheat-tells-us-about-the-genetics-of-our-daily-bread-126387

Big Food is Betting on Regenerative Agriculture to Thwart Climate Change | Civil Eats

https://civileats.com/2019/10/29/big-food-is-betting-on-regenerative-agriculture-to-thwart-climate-change/

Sourdough – Public Science Lab

What’s in your sourdough? This fascinating article is about the lives and times of sourdough starters, sent to me by Stella @stella_bread.