The Many Benefits of Multi-Year Crop Rotations
Farmland LP’s agricultural practices are based on good science and agronomic principles, and a 9-year research project from America’s heartland continues to support what we do.
Food & Water
Our time has come: Food Sovereignty Now!
My name is Henry Saragih. I am the chairperson of Serikat Petani Indonesia, a mass organization consisting of small-holder farmers, landless, indigenous peoples and also women peasants and youth all across Indonesia.
Winemaking – ‘For Medicinal Purposes’
For Sustainable Bungay’s 10th Plants for Life event last Sunday, Winemaking – For Medicinal Purposes, Nick Watts invited a dozen of us to his house for a practical demonstration of how to make fruit wine, in this case (sic) from raspberries.
Bill and Lou: A parable for saving our broken food system
Our society has become increasingly divorced from agriculture, and our assumptions about food and farming are too often based more on emotion or business interests than those of real, on-farm experiences and community decision-making about the food we raise and eat.
A Wind And Solar Powered Corncrib
What is being called the world’s first solar-powered flour mill is now in operation at Frankferd Farms in Butler County, Pa…It dawned on me, thinking of Frankferd Farms, that what I have here is a solar and wind-powered corn dryer as well as a storage bin.
By the Numbers – Data Highlights from Full Planet, Empty Plates
As farmers struggle to keep up with soaring demand for grain and soybeans, this ratcheting upward of food prices ensures that many of the 219,000 new guests at the global dinner table each night are facing empty plates.
Ontario’s Local Food Act: More maybe than act
To get a handle on the Promoting Local Food Act tabled in the Ontario legislature on October 4, it helps to know the difference between government support and government policy. If you choose door 1 and get support, you’re in luck. If you choose door 2 and get policy, that’s the booby prize.
Maize and bean farmers threatened by climate change
Over the coming decades, climate change is expected to pose major difficulties for one million maize and bean farmers in Central America.
Food & agriculture – Oct 22
*Despite Protest, College Plans To Slaughter, Serve Farm’s Beloved Oxen
*A Simple Fix for Farming
*Iowa Farms Minting Millionaires as Rich-Poor Gap Widens
Nature’s matrix: Linking agriculture, conservation and food sovereignty
An important book argues that conservationists who focus on creating nature preserves are undermining their own cause. To truly protect biodiversity, environmentalists must support the global struggle of peasant farmers for human rights, land, and sustainable agriculture. In any discussion of biodiversity and species extinction, someone insists that overpopulation is the problem. More people equals more farms equals less wilderness equals more extinctions. Life is a zero-sum game: you can have people and farming OR wildlife and biodiversity, but not both.
The wild side of local food
A friend brought me a gift I never dreamed I’d ever see, or rather eat. A loaf of pawpaw bread. Just like banana bread but with pawpaws. Why didn’t I think of that?
Food & agriculture – Oct 18
*Big Tobacco lawyers target food industry
*How To Compost In Your Apartment
*Why Caring About Food Isn’t An Option, It’s a Responsibility
*Food price crisis: What crisis?
*New EU biofuel proposals inadequate, warns ActionAid
