Beyond Honeybees: Pollinator-Friendly Farming for the Future
Imagine a world without strawberries, apples, chocolate, coffee, squash, or almonds.
Food & Water
The Turning of the Year
I’m not really sure when it feels right to talk about “the new year” in the endless cycle of life on the farm.
Power Water Networks
During the second half of the nineteenth century, water motors were widely used in Europe and America. These small water turbines were connected to the tap and could power any machine that is now driven by electricity.
Community Food Production with Miriam Volat
Miriam Volat, Permaculture Skills Center’s Farm School director, speaks to her work as a facilitator, educator, and healthy food system advocate.
Pandemonium and City Food Security
I supervised a university-level food studies class last week that, partly by design and partly by sheer accident, gave me some new insights into the challenges of city-oriented food security policy.
Farming controversies are so complicated
I read an article on the DTN/Progressive Farming website that once again shows how difficult it is to resolve differences of opinion in farming disagreements. The article was an even-sided discussion of possible overproduction of organic crops, (which I plan to write about soon) but a respondent took the occasion to launch into a rather vitriolic attack on organic farming. He was irritated about the organic stand against herbicides.
What Else You Can Do with Rhubarb
Before we casually shipped warehouses of vegetables across oceans and refrigerated them, spring was traditionally a lean time in Western temperate climates, a time when our ancestors had been living on things like salted meat or grains for months.
Viva la Producción! Urban farming in Cuba
Urban farming has gained momentum in recent years as a result of increased awareness of environmental issues and the desire to feed people living in cities sustainably.
Vermont calls Big Food’s bluff on GMO labels
Large food processors have long claimed that state laws forcing them to label foods containing genetically engineered ingredients would lead to 1) higher prices for consumers who would end up paying the cost of special labeling for one or just a few states and/or 2) fewer food choices as processors simply withdrew some or all of their products from states requiring labeling.
A Burgeoning Effort to Restore Native Foods in an Unlikely Food Desert
The Native American tribes that live in the region adjacent to the Klamath River, which flows from Southern Oregon into the northern part of California, once subsisted sustainably off the land.
Former Pro Golfer Leaves Links to Pursue Promise of Greener Urban Farming Pastures
Mike Lott is not your run of the mill farmer. Not long ago, before making the decision to embark on a career in farming and launch his aquaponic and urban agriculture venture, Urban Food Works in Murietta, CA, Lott was a professional golfer.
Milk Is Going The Wine Route
The increasing interest in artisanal foods is opening up all kinds of opportunities in farming that could hardly have been predicted even a few years ago. Who would ever have thought a good market for small, backyard hen coops would open up.
