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Jet Windhorst

University of Connecticut

The garden of the Spring Valley Student Farm, a one-acre vegetable garden owned by UConn dining services and run by UConn students in Mansfield, Conn., on Sept. 28, 2022.
Reinventing a sustainable crab fishery
Sachi Kitajima Mulkey

Planet Forward Sr. Correspondent | University of California, Berkeley

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Growing Soil | Soil care in regenerative agriculture
Hannah Krantz

Planet Forward Correspondent | George Washington University

Farmers forced to adapt as changing precipitation patterns reduce output, income
Madeline Papcun

University of Connecticut

Farmers forced to adapt as changing precipitation patterns reduce output, income
‘Making food a focus’: Small farms take strides against food insecurity
Carter Weinhofer

Planet Forward Sr. Correspondent | Eckerd College

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Here’s what a refugee farmer grows on an urban Chicago farm
Adriana Martinez-Smiley

Planet Forward Correspondent | Northwestern University

Here’s what a refugee farmer grows on an urban Chicago farm
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Eric Forbes

Planet Forward Correspondent | Colorado State University

Growing Soil | Managing Wild at McGinley Ranch
Eva Kotobuki Sideris

Planet Forward Correspondent | SUNY Environmental Science and Forestry

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Xinge Lei

University of Georgia

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Vidya Muthupillai

Planet Forward Correspondent | George Washington University

Growing Soil | Livestock are struggling to stomach climate change. Might bison rumen help?
Adam Goldstein

University of Missouri

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Regenerative reporting from McGinley Ranch
Frank Sesno

Founding Director | Planet Forward

Bees and chili peppers: A solution to human-wildlife conflict in Zimbabwe
Beverly Ndifoin

Mandela Washington Fellow | Planet Forward Alum

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International student’s idea to repurpose barns becomes agro-plastic recycling company
Sara Wiatrak

University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science

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Terrius Harris

Planet Forward FAO Fellow | University of Oklahoma

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Terrius Harris

Planet Forward FAO Fellow | University of Oklahoma

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