Tag: Food

• July 28, 2022

  7.28.22 – Farmhands in the Food Chain

  Food cultivation can be a labor of love for global residents who can afford to grow crops in their yard for leisure, but on a larger scale, food cultivation can be taxing in many ways. Specifically for farm employees that are exposed to a variety of outdoor elements while picking food that humans consume on…
• July 11, 2022

  7.11.22 – Reversing Agricultural Time

  There is something to be said for doing things the ‘old fashioned’ way. Although manual methods often take longer and can be physically and mentally taxing, there is a lot of knowledge that is gained in the process. Agriculture is no different. Before the use of modified seeds and synthetic fertilizer which were introduced during…
• May 27, 2021

  5.27.21 – From the Americas to Feeding the World

  A few months ago, I completed a series on my Instagram page, clever.grasshopper, on foods native to the Americas. As an environmental anthropologist, I am aware that foods such as tomatoes, squash, beans, corn, potatoes, and different types of berries have their roots in the Americas since several indigenous groups have cultivated and consumed these…
• August 3, 2020

  8.3.20 Gardening…Politically Speaking

  The current Coronavirus situation has served to encourage people all over the nation to try their hand at gardening, whether there is an existence of a green thumb in a person or not. The experience has moved many to share images of their results via social media, with some boasting about their modest yields of…