Ancient ridge fields in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula show how Indigenous Menominee communities practiced large-scale farming.

The raised field agriculture provided pre-Columbian farmers with better drainage, soil aeration, moisture retention during the dry season, and higher and longer-term soil fertility than in ...

Intensive raised-field agriculture can become an alternative to burning down tropical forest for slash and burn agriculture by reclaiming otherwise abandoned and new savannah ecosystems created by ...

standing at the base of a series of rehabilitated irrigation canals that make up only a fraction of the ancient system known as raised-field agriculture. The system was used by the Tiwanaku ...

The research shows that the early inhabitants of these Amazonian savannas practiced 'raised-field' farming, which involved constructing small agricultural mounds with wooden tools. These raised ...

Known today as “field to table” eating ... are able to freely roam and eat on a spacious area of land, while farm-raised game lives in smaller, more confined outdoor areas and, unless they ...