Ayurella Horn-Muller

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Staff Writer, Food and Agriculture at Grist

staff writer @Grist. prev. @Axios, @ClimateCentral. Devoured: The Extraordinary Story of Kudzu, the Vine That Ate the South out now! (opinions my own.)

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An $18M grant would have drastically reduced food waste. Then the EPA cut it.

6 days ago | grist.org | Ayurella Horn-Muller

Once a little girl roaming the vibrant fields of an organic lettuce farm in Kealakekua, Hawai’i, Ella Kilpatrick Kotner learned how to live in harmony with the land before most kids learn how to tie their shoes. Nourishing the soils that gave her a regular supply of leafy greens was just a part of life. As was playing with the piles of compost on her family’s farm. “Composting, for me, is a lot about community,” said Kilpatrick Kotner.
An $18M grant would have drastically reduced food waste. Then the EPA cut it.

6 days ago | yahoo.com | Ayurella Horn-Muller

Once a little girl roaming the vibrant fields of an organic lettuce farm in Kealakekua, Hawai‘i, Ella Kilpatrick Kotner learned how to live in harmony with the land before most kids learn how to tie their shoes. Nourishing the soils that gave her a regular supply of leafy greens was just a part of life. As was playing with the piles of compost on her family’s farm. “Composting, for me, is a lot about community,” said Kilpatrick Kotner.
An $18M grant would have drastically reduced food waste. Then the EPA cut it.

6 days ago | ecotopical.com | Ayurella Horn-Muller

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Trump radically remade the US food system in just 100 days

1 week ago | leadertelegram.com | Ayurella Horn-Muller

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The National Weather Service is once again translating life-saving alerts. What happened?

1 week ago | grist.org | Ayurella Horn-Muller

At the beginning of last month, the National Weather Service discontinued its automated emergency-weather translation services in Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, Tagalog, and Samoan. The agency had decided not to renew its contract with Lilt, an AI-translation platform.
The National Weather Service is once again translating lifesaving alerts. What happened?

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Ayurella Horn-Muller

At the beginning of last month, the National Weather Service, or NWS, discontinued its automated emergency-weather translation services in Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, Tagalog, and Samoan. The agency had decided not to renew its contract with Lilt, an AI-translation platform.
Trump’s USDA Dismantled Decades of Federal Food Policy in Just 100 Days

1 week ago | truthout.org | Ayurella Horn-Muller

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. Despite its widespread perception, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is involved in much more than farming. The federal agency, established in 1862, is made up of 29 subagencies and offices and just last year was staffed by nearly 100,000 employees. It has an annual budget of hundreds of billions of dollars.
Trump radically remade the US food system in just 100 days

1 week ago | grist.org | Ayurella Horn-Muller

This story is part of a Grist package examining how President Trump's first 100 days in office have reshaped climate and environmental policy in the U.S. Despite its widespread perception, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is involved in much more than farming. The federal agency, established in 1862, is made up of 29 subagencies and offices and just last year was staffed by nearly 100,000 employees. It has an annual budget of hundreds of billions of dollars.
Trump radically remade the US food system in just 100 days

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Ayurella Horn-Muller

Despite its widespread perception, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is involved in much more than farming. The federal agency, established in 1862, is made up of 29 subagencies and offices and just last year was staffed by nearly 100,000 employees. It has an annual budget of hundreds of billions of dollars.
Trump Guts Farm-to-School Grants, Undermining “Make America Healthy Again” Plan

2 weeks ago | truthout.org | Ayurella Horn-Muller

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. Early in the morning last Monday, a group of third graders huddled in the garden of Mendota Elementary School in Madison, Wisconsin. Of the dozen students present, a handful were busy filling up buckets of compost, others were readying soil beds for spring planting, while a number carefully watered freshly planted radishes and peas.