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Preserving Appalachian Biodiversity with Cider Apples
Emily Payne | Food Tank
A quality cider is the result of a fine-tuned recipe, with each apple variety contributing a certain component to the final product, Michael Gutensohn tells Food Tank. Gutensohn is Assistant Professor of...
20 Jan 2020
20 Jan 2020
A Little Wild in Our Rice
Scientists are collaborating with farmers in Vietnam in a new project which is striving to develop improved varieties of rice which can withstand the challenges of climate change by tapping into the genetic diversity available in...
15 Jan 2020
15 Jan 2020
Orchards, Cold Cider and the Global Strategy for Apple
“Them Crow Eggs, Bellflowers, Staymans, Limbertwigs, they're all sweet little cuties, but there ain't no apple in this world like a Virginia Beauty.” -- Jim Veteto
Jim Veteto strums a self-penned ode on his guitar, a jar of...
7 Jan 2020
7 Jan 2020
The Food Forever Solutions Summit: How the diversity of our foods can help feed us in a changing world
Food of the future was the hot topic at the inaugural Food Forever Solutions Summit earlier this month in Washington, DC. Hosted by Foreign Policy in partnership with the Crop Trust and the Food Forever Initiative, it brought...
23 Dec 2019
23 Dec 2019
Breathing New Life into the Global Crop Conservation Strategies
The Crop Trust kicks off a new project funded by the German government.
18 Dec 2019
Finish Your Saltwater Greens!
Come on, sir; here’s the place: stand still. How fearful
And dizzy ’tis, to cast one’s eyes so low!
The crows and choughs that wing the midway air
Show scarce so gross as beetles: half way down
Hangs one that gathers samphire,...
17 Dec 2019
17 Dec 2019
On to New Beginnings
Marie Haga | Marie's Corner
It is with a heavy heart that I write my last Marie’s Corner as Executive Director of the Crop Trust. I’ve had the privilege to serve this organization for almost seven fantastic years. I’ve loved...
13 Dec 2019
13 Dec 2019
How Peru's Potato Museum Could Stave Off World Food Crisis
Dan Collyns | The Guardian
With a climate changing faster than most crops can adapt and food security under threat around the world, scientists have found hope in a living museum dedicated to a staple eaten by millions daily: the...
5 Dec 2019
5 Dec 2019
Meet the Chef Serving up Pork Schmaltz in Appalachia
Emily Payne | Food Tank
“California has nothing on us,” Chef Ian Boden, Owner of The Shack in Staunton, Virginia, tells Food Tank. “Except 70-degree weather 10 months out of the year.”
Boden is cooking in The Shack’s intimate,...
26 Nov 2019
26 Nov 2019








