Tory Dahlhoff
CorrespondentTory Dahlhoff is a freelance reporter based at WCBU. He's also the host of the food and farming podcast Food Trek.
Tory has a varied background in multimedia production that includes TV and film, radio, print, and graphic design. He has also worked in the field of community and economic development in the Greater Peoria region with a focus on agriculture, food systems, and rural matters. He holds a bachelor's in Journalism from Bradley University and is currently pursuing a master's in Community Economic Development at Western Illinois University.
He is originally from Belleville and landed in Peoria in 2012 following years living and working in media production in both Chicago and Los Angeles. He is a husband and father of three adorable kids. He plays guitar and enjoys some occasional side work as a touring musician.
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Today on Food Trek, host Tory Dahlhoff gives us the first of a two-part episode that dives into the potential of building a local food system in Central Illinois and reviews a bit of the history of why, in a place with such great soil, a strong local food system has yet to take hold.
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Today on Food Trek, host Tory Dahlhoff gives us the first of a two-part episode that dives into the potential of building a local food system in Central Illinois and reviews a bit of the history of why, in a place with such great soil, a strong local food system has yet to take hold.
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Today on Food Trek, host Tory Dahlhoff explores how a diverse tallgrass prairie was transformed into a landscape now dominated by monoculture crops. How did a biodiverse prairie that excelled at storing carbon turn into farmland that contributes to climate change?
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Food Trek host Tory Dahlhoff is your guide. In the debut episode, Tory explains what to expect and who you'll meet on this yearlong reporting project.Support for agriculture coverage on WCBU and WGLT comes from the Illinois Farm Bureau and Growmark.
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Food Trek host Tory Dahlhoff is your guide. In the debut episode, Tory explains what to expect and who you'll meet on this yearlong reporting project.Support for agriculture coverage on WCBU and WGLT comes from the Illinois Farm Bureau and Growmark.
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The USDA’s COMET-Farm tool is increasingly useful to farms choosing to implement regenerative practices such as planting perennials and cover crops, and reducing tillage, to better verify their on-farm carbon capture to sell credits on the emerging carbon marketplace.
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The monumental task of mitigating climate change and transforming agricultural practices at a scale is anything but simple. Getting a carbon market to a stable and verifiable condition is just one of the many challenges.
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The Peoria City Council approved an application to the Illinois EPA for a $32 million loan to cover the cost of installing the first round of green infrastructure projects needed to achieve a 35% reduction in the city’s combined sewage overflows by 2027.
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The Peoria City Council has approved an ordinance to establish a city-managed land bank, a tool that assistant director of community development Joe Dulin said directly addresses the issue of neighborhood blight.
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PCCEO will receive $290,000 in South Village TIF funds to initiate the first phase of the MacArthur Highway Corridor Plan.City council approved the…