Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
This summer I’ve had the opportunity to plant, cultivate and harvest two 30×40-yard gardens on a small, sustainable farm. What I didn’t plan on was falling in love with the goats there and gaining some insight into a spirituality of food.
-Peak Oil and Tourism
-Let There Be Light!
-Bolivians look to ancient farming
-Ambitious Solar Project to Use Recycled City Wastewater
-Another bold move in Portland
We take a look at recent questions regarding Organic Foods and Organic Regulations. Our guests include organic advocates, industry officials, and former members of federal regulations in organic food & agriculture.
-Recession Robs Spain’s Youth of Jobs and Hope
-Young, gifted – but jobless
-Tracking the recession: Stimulus helps revive summer youth jobs programs
-Tokyo – Rooftop and underground urban farming lures young Japanese office workers
-Pesticides in your peaches
-The obvious advantage of organic food over conventional
-A debate about soil, organics, and nutrition
-Empty car parks to sprout vegetable plots
-The Omnivore’s Delusion: Against the Agri-intellectuals
-An ‘agri-intellectual’ talks back
The first reports of drought-related suicides have begun filtering in from the district press. Farmers in the eastern coastal state of Andhra Pradesh are taking their own lives – the toll is said to be 20 farmers over the last 40 days. The state is one amongst many which has so far been forsaken by the South-West monsoon in 2009…An official with the state agriculture department has called the conditions the worst in 50 years. But the state government has still not declared Andhra Pradesh as hit by drought. Such declarations have in India become politically charged positions that the state ruling is forced to take, instead of being policy conclusions that can quickly bring relief and rehabilitation.
-Barrister to barista: The rise of part-time Britain
-Ellie and Gordon set a good example: voluntary service trumps compulsion
-Organic producers suffer as green fingered customers go it alone
-Farmer saves $200,000 with poo power
-Vancouver firm makes fertilizer out of human sewage
-Wastewater Produces Electricity And Desalinates Water
-Debunking the meat / climate change myth
-Grow your own sausages
-Metro Detroit Goes Slow And Tastes The Difference
Of all my old, junk machinery, I like my pickup truck the best. I could not function without it. I use it to haul hay, straw, manure, mulch, lambs, rams, calves, pigs, chickens, corn, wheat, grandkids, apples, firewood, logs, cans of gas, rototillers, dirt, lawnmowers, water tanks, fencing, gates, posts, lumber, chainsaws, shovels, forks, concrete blocks, trash for the recycler, gravel, rocks, railroad ties. To name a few.
-Offsets and Big Ag: Does the climate bill give away too much to the farm sector?
-US Still Paying Blackwater Millions
-Steinbeck’s Descendants
