Farming and Climate Change

The Future of Farming: Vertical Harvest Reimagines Growing Produce in a Sustainable Urban Oasis

Wyoming Truth

JACKSON, Wyo. — On average, fresh produce travels over 1,500 miles from farm to fork in the United States — the equivalent of driving from Los Angeles to Houston.

In

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‘A living pantry’: how an urban food forest in Arizona became a model for climate action

The Guardian
Near downtown Tucson, Arizona, is Dunbar Spring, a neighborhood unlike any other in the city. The unpaved sidewalks are lined with native, food-bearing trees and shrubs fed by rainwater diverted
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Blue corn and melons: meet the seed keepers reviving ancient, resilient crops

The Guardian
On a windy winter day in Acoma Pueblo in north-western New Mexico, Aaron Lowden knelt beside a field near the San Jose River, the tribe’s primary irrigator for centuries. “The
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Native Americans farming practices hold potential amid climate change

The Washington Post
TUCSON — Indigenous peoples have known for millennia to plant under the shade of the mesquite and paloverde trees that mark the Sonoran Desert here, shielding their crops from the
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Reclaiming and Expanding Native Foodways in New Mexico, One Seed at a Time

The Santa Fe New Mexican

SAN PEDRO — For the past 34 years, Roxanne Swentzell has worked to save the seeds of her ancestors.

“I remember getting a small pouch of a variety of Pueblo

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Remaking New York City in the wake of climate change

Al Jazeera English
New York City, US - On the evening of October 29, 2012, Hurricane Sandy reached the inlet between Long Island and New Jersey and funnelled the Atlantic storm surge into
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