Cranberries
How much do you know about cranberries? It turns out they may be one of the most sustainable crops in the world. I didn’t know that, just like I had no idea that cranberries grow best in boggy, water-soaked soil. Every acre of cranberries needs 5.5 acres of surrounding marshland, so in effect, you have farmers preserving precious wetlands. Ocean Spray Cranberries, a $2 billion cooperative (I didn’t know that either) recently became the first agricultural company to have all its 700 farms certified as 100% sustainable by the Sustainable Agriculture Initiative Platform (SAI Platform). This is farm-to-fork regenerative agriculture in action.
— Wayne Visser
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