By Megan Perry, Oxford Real Farming Conference
At this year’s Oxford Real Farming Conference the Sustainable Food Trust will be convening a session delving into one of the most important issues for future farming policy in the UK – how do we measure on-farm sustainability and bring about convergence in the multitude of conflicting and overlapping assessment and certification systems currently being used?
By Bethany Knipp, Seedstock.com
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By Adam Taggart, Peak Prosperity
Many of the practices they employ at Singing Frogs go beyond the standard ones used by traditional organic farmers, leading some to refer to their approach as organic farming 2.0.
By Cole Mellino, EcoWatch
After researching farm communities throughout the world for more than a decade, Barber concluded America’s food needs a radical transformation to ensure the future of our health, food and land.
By Brian Miller, Winged Elm Farm blog
The giddy delight in admiring our equipment shed, the morning sun throwing a splash of color through the Victorian stained glass window in the tack room...The barn at 3 in the morning as Daisy calves....And still we get the question?
By Frank Aragona, Agricultural Innovations
I write this not to be discouraging or defeatist, but to impress upon you that it is time we started creating the socio-economic models that will make permaculture successful.
By Staff, Ecocentric blog, Grace Communications Foundation
Over the winter, Ecocentric interviewed farmers across the country from our Eat Well Guide in an effort to highlight both the challenges and triumphs of sustainable farmers across the country. Join us as we delve in to discover what it means to be a farmer in the 21st century.
By Janet McGarry, Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture
Lauren Augusta realized the need for sustainable agriculture exchange while working at a conventional agriculture training program, where she observed the detrimental effects of agrochemicals on the land and farmers’ health.
By Resilience.org Staff, Resilience.org
•Food Sovereignty: A Breviary •Transforming a conventional orchard into a fruit forest •Journal withdraws controversial French Monsanto GM study •Dust to Dust: a man-made Malthusian crisis •Fighting hunger through sustainable farming •Peak soil: act now or the very ground beneath us will die •The National Soil Project •Hungry Americans Less Productive as Budget Cuts Deepen: Economy •Soil tasting session coming to Bristol: "Mmmm... I'm getting earthy notes and just a hint of grass" •Now This Is Natural Food
By Alleen Brown, YES! magazine
The fact is, in a food economy that favors the big and industrial, it's difficult for anyone to successfully start a small, sustainable farm.