The International Year of Pulses and Tropical Agriculture
The role of insect ecology is to try to understand the regulating mechanisms between plants and insects.
Food & Water
Agroecology Now
The primary obstacle to sustainable food security is an economic model and thought system, embodied in industrial agriculture, that views life in disassociated parts, obscuring the destructive impact this approach has on humans, natural resources, and the environment.
What is Closed Loop Agriculture?
Closed loop agriculture is farming practice that recycles all nutrients and organic matter material back to the soil that it grew in. This forms part of an agricultural practice that preserves the nutrient and carbon levels within the soil and allows farming to be carried out on a sustainable basis.
Let’s Think About Water for Earth Day
This idea might seem all wet to some people, but I’d like to propose on Earth Day that we make a top priority of making water’s links to food, environment and city issues more dramatic, more front-and-centre, and more spirited and spiritual.
A Permaculture Guide to Choosing Cover Crops
One of my constant refrains is “Permaculture is a decision making tool for arriving at regenerative solutions.” Here I’m going to show how permaculture can help create strategies for deciding what cover crops to use.
Empowering Young People and Nurturing Equitable Food Systems
The Massachusetts Avenue Project in Buffalo, New York, is fostering healthy food access opportunities and social change education for young adults.
Your Favorite Farm and Garden Job
That’s an easy one for me— burning off the asparagus patch in the early spring. Just something about lighting up the new growing year.
Feeding the World: Can we Preserve Forests, Go Organic, and Eat Meat?
It is possible to produce enough food to feed a growing population without another tree being felled, according to new research. But there’s a catch.
Regenerative Citizenship and the Victory Garden
In 2009, at the height of the Great Recession and an impending energy crisis, a group of friends and I co-launched our local Victory Garden Initiative (VGI), which would later contribute the winning proposal for the City of Milwaukee’s adoption of Home GR/OWN, a program for (mostly) blighted neighborhoods flipping city-owned vacant lots into pocket parks and profitable food production sites.
Urban Aquaponic Farmer and Chef Redefines Local Food in Orange County, CA
In a county named for its former abundance of orange groves, chef and farmer Adam Navidi is on the forefront of redefining local food and agriculture through his restaurant, farm, and catering business.
Why the fight for GMO labeling is (possibly) over
As more and more people come to prefer non-GMO food, it will simply become easier to entertain mixed groups by assuring everyone that all the food and drink available is non-GMO.
Eating Well on Nearly Nothing
If you had less than £3 per day to spend on food, what would you eat?
