Food

Peak oil and climate change writers Aaron Newton and Sharon Astyk have written a book called “A Nation of Farmers: Defeating the Food Crisis on American Soil,” which is nothing short of a call to arms for local food proponents.

Job Losses Show Breadth of Recession
A Depression doesn’t have to be Great
Food-backed Local Money
Archdruid Report: The End of Retirement

Who needs a garden?
California: A tiny town in the Central Valley prepares for ‘Armageddon’
Kitchen Gardener International

I suppose it’s because pole beans require some kind of scaffolding to climb on that they aren’t as popular as bush beans…But if you have tasted Kentucky Wonder pole beans cooked with bacon grease or a slab of real country-cured ham fat nestled among them, you know that they are so much more delectable than any bush bean that the extra work is worth it.

Russian household plots produced about 90% of all the potatoes in Russia, 80% of all the vegetables, 50% of the meat and milk, etc.

World lags in breeding climate-proof crops: experts
Women lead a farming revolution in Iowa
Honeybees under attack on all fronts
UN and Colorado State to develop land degradation strategy

Astyk: Creating and Sustaining Soil Fertility
Farming policy: an end to French hypocrisy?
Swiss “Victory Gardens” during WW2
UNEP Gives Food for Thought