What began as a conversation about beekeeping revealed a much larger shift in global agricultural trade. Oh, Honey! I was talking to my father a few years back and in true boomer fashion, he asked if I could help him find a beekeeper suit on Amazon. I didn’t even bother asking why. I already knew […]
Somewhere along the way, the agricultural industrial complex forgot that the land is not a machine, and now it is rediscovering what farmers have known all along. Regenerative Coffee Is the New Buzzword. But What Does It Actually Mean? Regenerative farming, or as we and many other farmers call it, good old-fashioned farming. […]
Inside West Africa’s informal cocoa and coffee routes, where markets, borders, and survival economics collide. The Quiet Routes: Inside West Africa’s Hidden Trade From the farm to the roadside in Kano, where the cocoa is quietly loaded at dusk, packed tightly into worn sacks that don’t draw attention. To the roadside near Seme Border, […]