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Journalist, food and farming. Editor of Offrange, a new kind of agriculture publication: https://offrange.org
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love that you noticed our writer was inspired by "seeing something funny on the highway"
The Dust Bowl transformed conservation practices in the US. All of those highly successful—from an environment and business perspective—initiatives are being rolled back now.
In the wake of the last decade's devastating wildfires, there's an urgent effort underway to grow our forests back. The problem? We don't have nearly enough tree seedlings. @moiradonovan.bsky.social looks into what's being done: ambrook.com/offrange/env...
@hannaraskin.bsky.social WATERMELON BUSSSSSS
@lelanargi.bsky.social
Is that so
We're calling them honeyberries good sir
Editing a story about a little-known berry that's struggling to get recognition with U.S. consumers. It has absolutely nothing dire or upsetting and now this is the only kind of thing I want to read or edit.
Ever since leafy greens started leading to food poisoning outbreaks, produce buyers have been skittish about any wildlife near California's farms. New research shows that wild birds in particular are being unfairly blamed. New from Jordan Charbonneau: ambrook.com/offrange/cro...
Sometimes I find out about mass layoffs because the Offrange newsletter gets a bunch of "Person X is no longer employed here" auto-responses. Today I learned that Rabobank and Oklahoma State University apparently laid a bunch of people off. (Have gotten federal agency layoff emails for months)
“There’s been incredible pressure on growers to do everything that they can to keep wildlife out of the farming environment in California.”
Ever since leafy greens started leading to food poisoning outbreaks, produce buyers have been skittish about any wildlife near California's farms. New research shows that wild birds in particular are being unfairly blamed. New from Jordan Charbonneau: ambrook.com/offrange/cro...
The beaverslide is an engineering marvel, a huge, lumbering hay-baling invention from 1910. Some Montana ranchers still swear by it! Fun new story from Katie Hill: ambrook.com/offrange/cul...
“If an LLM recommends a pesticide that ends up killing an entire crop, it’s hard to know who’s to blame.” Offrange writer @jakeadampitre.bsky.social looks into the promise and peril of farmers embracing AI: ambrook.com/offrange/tec...
@katiehillwriter.bsky.social
The beaverslide is an engineering marvel, a huge, lumbering hay-baling invention from 1910. Some Montana ranchers still swear by it! Fun new story from Katie Hill: ambrook.com/offrange/cul...
This was the week when many of the thinkers I trust said we are past the point of no return
“If an LLM recommends a pesticide that ends up killing an entire crop, it’s hard to know who’s to blame.” Offrange writer @jakeadampitre.bsky.social looks into the promise and peril of farmers embracing AI: ambrook.com/offrange/tec...
New Offrange gear
Excellent piece by Mitch Hagney in the agriculture publication offrange.org "Without the right mix of federal policies, incentives, and networks, the progress that’s been made over the last 90 years could erode." ambrook.com/offrange/per... h/t to the wonderful editor, @jessehirsch.bsky.social 👍
They called it a pineapple express-o
On a menu! Lol
Just had a shot of espresso in pineapple juice and it was crazy good!
For Offrange, I dug into a hidden hurdle in adapting our forests to climate change: tree seedlings. We need billions of seedlings to restore forests being lost to fire and other impacts - and nurseries are nowhere close to that number. I heard about the ways people are trying to fill the gap.
In the wake of the last decade's devastating wildfires, there's an urgent effort underway to grow our forests back. The problem? We don't have nearly enough tree seedlings. @moiradonovan.bsky.social looks into what's being done: ambrook.com/offrange/env...
Our Reichstag Fire is a guy named Big Balls getting beat up at 3am
That'll do it
One of my favorite photos from an Offrange story
If I was there I would ask this person so many annoying questions
My wife sent me this shot of a stranger's luggage at detroit airport.
Do you know the term "rough fish?" It's an abstract designation that boils down to "the fish no one wants," but by using the term over-broadly, we're causing real damage to native species, argues @hannahseo.com in a new Offrange piece: ambrook.com/offrange/per...
When Christa McAuliffe died I was seven and the first thing I did was go to 1st Grade and make a bad joke. "What, did her rocket crash into Haley's Comet?" Learned a lot that day!
Wellllll if you enjoy mine-focused words and pictures: ambrook.com/offrange/env...
This summer California 4-H offered something new: drone camp! Send your teen to learn all about using drones to do everything from spray pesticides to collect data. New from @alfredpoor.bsky.social: ambrook.com/offrange/tec...
Every freshwater fishermen should give this story a read and consider their own contributions to the problem. I shed bad habits learned in my youth as I learned more about how aquatic ecosystems function. Knowledge is the first step to enlightenment. ambrook.com/offrange/per...
Wellllll if you enjoy mine-focused words and pictures: ambrook.com/offrange/env...
Just sent a writer and photographer to a lithium mine in the California desert and while I'm v jealous of their adventure I'm mostly happy to keep facilitating interesting journalism!
Team Ambrook (yes I have all my teeth)
link: www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/20...
They built a special wheelchair for this sheep and that shall be the only news I'm consuming today
Pearls swine etc
Probably no one here cares about Chelsea Hotel but the gossip I just clocked
@dkruzman.bsky.social no way!
I've been a fan of your writing for a while - when the dust clears would love to chat about giving you an interesting assignment offrange.org
In case you have your own train car lying around
Dubai chocolate helped turn pistachios into a hot commodity, but small nut farmers in the U.S. aren't reaping the riches. Karen Fischer looks at the trickle-down effects of this global phenomenon: ambrook.com/offrange/sup...
Funded by USDA-NIFA, California 4-H launched a series of drone camps this summer, preparing teens for farming’s future. "Agricultural drone pilot is an emerging career opportunity," Sean Hogan @ucanr.edu told Offrange ambrook.com/offrange/tec... @jessehirsch.bsky.social
this is not a joke
This is Joyce Silver. She just announced on Nextdoor she's running a write-in campaign for NYC mayor because the other candidates displease her. Campaign launches at Zabars tomorrow afternoon.
How is "do your own research" one of the most deeply cursed phrases?
This is so cool, and cool that it’s in Montgomery County too
In suburban Washington, D.C., on a tiny parcel of land abutting a Costco parking lot and housing developments, a couple is performing a radical rewilding. New from Davin Faris: ambrook.com/offrange/per...
sounds good
In suburban Washington, D.C., on a tiny parcel of land abutting a Costco parking lot and housing developments, a couple is performing a radical rewilding. New from Davin Faris: ambrook.com/offrange/per...
This article taught me that I know basically nothing about the best nut.
"Split rate"!!
Dubai chocolate helped turn pistachios into a hot commodity, but small nut farmers in the U.S. aren't reaping the riches. Karen Fischer looks at the trickle-down effects of this global phenomenon: ambrook.com/offrange/sup...
You'd think that, with the amount of blood slaughterhouses throw out each year (millions of gallons), there'd be plenty to use for scientific studies. Not so! Stephan Sveshnikov looked into the "blood ranches" where sheep are raised solely for their blood: ambrook.com/offrange/liv...
While everything goes crazy headlines like this fly under the radar
"Hunker down, fellow Democrat, for a good ol fashioned chat about NATO and the forgotten middle class. Snacks not provided."
I never signed up for this! Lol
Breaking:
I don't even know if it's AI I just see a good sandwich with a deadly headline
Was just pitched a "60-article bundle totaling approximately 168,000–258,000 words" which feels very ambitious unless you consider AI
same
Kind of rude to make the art look so delicious for this headline
This feels like a rude suggestion from gmail
lol well played
Traditional veterinarians are increasingly non-Western practices like acupuncture and kinesiology into their treatments of horses, cattle, and other livestock. Ag correspondent Bruce Derksen has more: ambrook.com/offrange/liv...
Fried prosciutto and kimchi is like the best flavor combo, did I invent it?
Traditional veterinarians are increasingly non-Western practices like acupuncture and kinesiology into their treatments of horses, cattle, and other livestock. Ag correspondent Bruce Derksen has more: ambrook.com/offrange/liv...
@karenho.bsky.social you all should chat
I told you! ambrook.com/offrange/liv...
There are a number of reasons tractor theft is on the rise: skyrocketing price of steel/used equipment, isolated rural storage, lack of security, etc. But also? Many farmers leave their keys in the ignition. @elissawelle.bsky.social has more: ambrook.com/offrange/sup...
Traditional veterinarians are increasingly non-Western practices like acupuncture and kinesiology into their treatments of horses, cattle, and other livestock. Ag correspondent Bruce Derksen has more: ambrook.com/offrange/liv...
Traditional veterinarians are increasingly non-Western practices like acupuncture and kinesiology into their treatments of horses, cattle, and other livestock. Ag correspondent Bruce Derksen has more: ambrook.com/offrange/liv...
TIL about a pistachio's "split rate" which is the percentage of nuts that grow big enough to split out of their shells. Pistachio farmers have various methods to ensure a high split rate.
ah nope
👀 On our radar: Can people learn to love rhubarb? “Perhaps the answer can be found in northern England’s Yorkshire Triangle,” writes @lelanargi.bsky.social for Offrange ambrook.com/offrange/cro...
awww
An interesting report from the first conference on The Science & Craft of Raw Milk Cheese in Vermont ambrook.com/offrange/cul... #agriculture #food #cheese
Rumors of glyphosate's demise have been greatly exaggerated. My latest for Offrange (formerly Ambrook Research) ambrook.com/offrange/cul...
Every dude under 28 has benson boone hair and mustache
Very cool
Really??
USDA's food safety mascot Thermy, alongside his enemies Salmonella and E. Coli
apparently this has been their vibe for some time now archive.ph/tAIJx
is the brand the zoo?
Don't get too excited: We're publishing a story titled "Blood Ranch" this week
Oh no lol
It's struggling
photo credit is @politico.com
100%. Taken this weekend!
USDA's food safety mascot Thermy, alongside his enemies Salmonella and E. Coli
There are a number of reasons tractor theft is on the rise: skyrocketing price of steel/used equipment, isolated rural storage, lack of security, etc. But also? Many farmers leave their keys in the ignition. @elissawelle.bsky.social has more: ambrook.com/offrange/sup...
Gravel cycling is a fast-growing off-road sport, with new races popping up all over the country. It's a boon for local tourism, but some farmers and ranchers have been upset by cyclists and fans trashing their properties. New from Amanda Loudin: ambrook.com/offrange/cul...
“All the spending money [many mountaineers] had came from nuts they had gathered on other people’s land. This was a completely different picture than I’d understood before.” What if we radically transformed agriculture, putting nuts at the center? From Daniel Walton: ambrook.com/offrange/per...
Lol is this a mystery to anyone
wild subject line for an email
