Farming as the Climate Changes: Soul Fire Farm, Petersburg, New York
By Sustainable Food Trust Staff, Sustainable Food Trust
There are passionate and engaged people across America who are desperately working to keep us within the two-degree Celsius limit. In light of that division, we wanted to talk to farmers across the US to understand how they view climate change and what steps (if any) they were taking to address it.
Farming as the Climate Changes: Six River Farm, Bowdoinham, Maine
By Sustainable Food Trust Staff, Sustainable Food Trust
Six River Farm is a diverse organic vegetable farm located on the shores of Merrymeeting Bay in Bowdoinham, Maine. Nate and Gabrielle both have roots in New England. They work with a small crew of employees, to grow a wide range of produce which they sell seasonally at local farmers markets, restaurants and natural food stores.
The Future of UK Farming: Measuring and Valuing Sustainability
By Sustainable Food Trust Staff, Sustainable Food Trust
At The Future of UK Farming conference this April, The Sustainable Food Trust’s Patrick Holden chaired a session on “Measuring and Valuing Sustainability”. The panel discussed how to transform the economic environment for sustainable food production by empowering farmers to deliver measurable public goods.
Grazed and Confused – An Initial Response from the Sustainable Food Trust
By Sustainable Food Trust Staff, Sustainable Food Trust
The only practical way to produce human-edible food from grassland without releasing large amounts of carbon to the atmosphere is to graze it with ruminants, and with the increasing global population it would be highly irresponsible to stop producing meat, milk and animal fats from grassland, since this would cause even more rainforest to be destroyed to produce soyabean oil and meal, as well as palm oil.
Debating the Role of Livestock with Joel Salatin
By Sustainable Food Trust Staff, Sustainable Food Trust
Do livestock hold the key to a healthy planet and population? In Bristol on the 23rd November, we held an event to discuss this question.