Welcome to the weekly Modern Farmer newsletter. We’ll bring you features, recipes and gardening tips, along with food and farming news from around the world.
Spent grain. A first-of-its-kind collaborative in Minnesota called the Twin Cities Spent Grain Co-Op is uniting a handful of breweries and one distillery to turn spent grain into baking flour. Many brewers typically sell or give away their spent grain (a byproduct of the brewing process) to farmers to feed to livestock. But as the number of American craft breweries has exploded, there aren’t enough farmers in geographic proximity to those breweries to use up all the grain. That’s where a food upcycling company called NETZRO saw an opportunity to make sure the grain isn't going to waste. Read more here.
How to make dye with excess food. It’s almost inevitable that gardeners will have more veggies than they know what to do with come harvest time. There are many ways to make sure they don't go to waste, but let us introduce you a creative, eco-conscious and dare we say “trendy” option for your garden surplus: using it as natural dye. Lindsay Campbell walks us through the steps of turning your excess harvest into clothing dye.
Meet this modern flower farmer. When Quilen Blackwell first moved to Chicago in 2011, he wanted to do something to help at-risk youth who were victims of their surroundings. After some thorough research, he figured he could do this through flowers. Blackwell launched Chicago Eco House, an organization that now hires at-risk youth in some of Chicago's lower-income neighborhoods to plant flowers in vacant lots. This past spring the flower farm quickly sold out of many of its bouquets in what was its first season. Read more about Blackwell's story here.
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