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IMMIGRATION AND THE BUSINESS OF FOOD

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So, lets look at immigration through the eyes of the business of food from agriculture to food processing and on to the restaurants we all enjoy supporting. If you have never worked the harvest at a vineyard, a strawberry farm, potato farm, or lettuce fields, then you have no idea how hard that work is.

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Warmer Temperatures Could Mean More Grapes for Midwest Winemakers — but Also More Bad Weather

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In the years that followed, she worked at vineyards Left Foot Charley, Bowers Harbor, and Brengman Brothers, doing all aspects of the business, from the tasting room, to selling, to growing. Lefebvre and Newman first sowed the fruits of WaterFire Vineyards in 2009, after purchasing the 26-acre farm property.

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Nighttime Harvests Can Protect Farmworkers from Blistering Heat, but They Bring New Risks

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Stolpman Vineyards Workers have taken to nocturnal harvesting schedules to avoid soaring daytime temperatures. At Stolpman Vineyards in the Ballard Canyon area of Santa Barbara County, California, a nocturnal harvest has long been the norm. Stolpman Vineyards What’s critical to making it all work, he adds, is lights.

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Foraging Classes, Wellness Yurts, and the Agritourism Fantasy

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Claire Marie Vogel Luxury farm hotels present a glamorized version of agricultural work while promising to reconnect city dwellers with nature, uplift small farmers, and impact some of the food system’s biggest challenges The hens look up at me from their nesting boxes. Wildflower Farms A child with picked flowers at Wildflower Farms.

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2025 F&B Trends: Newstalgia, Stealth Health, and Botanical Beverages

Modern Restaurant Management

” – Chef Todd Knoll, Executive Chef at Bricoleur Vineyards. VanRhee, Director of Food & Beverage, JW Marriott Grand Rapids Bio Dynamic Wines, Oils and Vinegars "Guests are focusing more and more on wines, oils and vinegars sourced from single vineyards and olive groves reflecting biodynamic practices.

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Will Climate Change Help Hybrid Grapes Take Root?

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And yet, even copper poses potential health risks, and researchers have found that it can build up in vineyards over time, negatively impacting soil health. Once shunned as “foxy,” “musky,” or “unidimensional,” these hybrid grapes are being re-evaluated as the climate crisis stands to reshape vineyards across the world. million cases.

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Climate Disaster Looks Like Thousands of Boiled-Alive Mussels on a Beach in Vancouver

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In the Republic of Palau in the Western Pacific, for example , rising sea levels are salinating its agricultural land, making it impossible to grow crops that aren’t salt-tolerant. And the same drought that transformed the Western U.S. And in the U.S.,