Posts tagged with "Farming"
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Modern Pioneers: What it’s like living in an Ecovillage
By Brian Ziggy, Posted February 13th, 2012Living in community with one another is the foundation for a new pioneering, sustainable culture…
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7 Ways Organic Farms Outperform Conventional Farms
By Greg Seaman, Posted October 24th, 2011Sustainable, organic farming practices are the best way to feed the future…
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Perennial Crops Being Developed to Produce Food with Less Environmental Impact
By Eartheasy.com, Posted May 23rd, 2011The development of perennial grain crops represents a breakthrough in global food production…
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Eating less meat and dairy has minimal impact on global warming, expert argues
By ScienceDaily, Posted January 25th, 2011There is no doubt that livestock are major producers of methane, one of the greenhouse gases, but comparison figures may be inaccurate.
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Homemade Prosperity – escaping the consumer trap
By Shannon Hayes, YES! Magazine, Posted December 22nd, 2010Caught in the consumer trap? Radical Homemaker Shannon Hayes discovered that producing what she needs at home lets her live on a fraction of what she thought she needed.
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Soils and Souls: The promise of The Land
By Robert Jensen, Posted October 18th, 2010We must ask how we can construct an economy that can balance what is biologically and physically possible with what is socially and ethically desirable.
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Organic Farms Win at Potato Pest Control
By Daniel Cressey, Posted August 9th, 2010Organic agriculture promotes more balanced communities of natural predators
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Global food problems are about justice, not scarcity
By Frances Moore Lappé, YES! Magazine, Posted July 8th, 2010While world food experts cry “scarcity,” we humans are creating hunger out of plenty…
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The Case for Sustainable Meat
By Shannon Hayes, YES! Magazine, Posted July 5th, 2010Can meat have a place in the life of a “radical homemaker” trying to live sustainably? Farmer Shannon Hayes believes it can.
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‘One-Straw Revolution’ republished by Amazon
By Greg Seaman, Eartheasy, Posted January 6th, 2010Published in English in 1978, “The One Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming”, by Masanobu Fukuoka, is available once again.
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Fair Food Farmstead – providing accessibility to locally grown food
By Eartheasy, Posted October 19th, 2009Many consumers cite ‘distance’ and ‘inconvenient location’ as reasons to not shop at farmer’s markets. The Farmstand, located in Philadelphia’s Reading Terminal, is pioneering an innovative model for a community supported agricultural program.
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An organic farmer’s perspective on the meat/climate change debate
By Eliot Coleman, Grist.org, Posted August 20th, 2009A 2007 UN report called “Livestock’s Long Shadow,” claimed that 18 percent of global human-induced greenhouse gas emissions stem from meat production. Eliot Coleman, a respected small-scale farmer, offers this counterpoint.
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The New Rules of Food
By Alan Mammoser, Posted March 26th, 2009Concerned citizens, farmers and others are starting to work on a new set of rules for the food system.
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Glacial rock dust boosts vegetable growth, and helps to mitigate global warming
By Paul Kelbie, The Independent, Posted March 2nd, 2009Belief is growing that an answer to some of the earth’s problems are not only at hand, but under our feet…
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Future Farming: Planning now to prevent a national food crisis
By Robert Jensen, Posted February 4th, 2009In an interview, Wes Jackson counsels that we pay more attention to our soil over the long haul.
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Can organic farming feed the world?
By The Organic Consumers Association, Posted January 30th, 2009A summary of research suggests that organic agriculture could potentially supply global food needs.
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Peak Phosphorus
By Greg Seaman, Posted January 28th, 2009Our ability to provide enough food to feed the human population is dependent on the availability of phosphorus.
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Pesticides choke pathway for nature to produce nitrogen for crops
By University of Oregon, Posted January 28th, 2009Many farmers applying pesticides to boost crop yields may instead be contributing to growth problems, scientists report in a new study.
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