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The Three Sisters Planting Technique – The Most Efficient Way To Grow Food
The Three Sisters Planting Technique – The Most Efficient Way To Grow Food Image Credit: 64MM @ Flickr Companion planting is all the rage these days, but did you know this practice goes back thousands of years? The three sisters garden is one of the oldest and most well known companion planting styles. Believed to be named […]
UK | Supply Chains No Longer Fit For Purpose
UK | Supply Chains No Longer Fit For Purpose In October 2021 Sustain, the UK-based alliance working for food and farming system change, published ‘Beyond the farmgate – Unlocking the path to farmer-focused supply chains and climate-friendly, agroecological food systems’. The report explores the results of a survey of 500 farmers in England and Wales, with […]
Natural Resources Necessary to Feed World Are at a ‘Breaking Point,’ Warns FAO
Natural Resources Necessary to Feed World Are at a ‘Breaking Point,’ Warns FAO “Taking care of land, water, and particularly the long-term health of soils is fundamental to accessing food in an ever-demanding food chain.” A United Nations report released Thursday detailing humanity’s degradation of natural resources warns swift and sweeping reforms are needed to keep […]
Let’s Talk About Agriculture
Let’s Talk About Agriculture An agricultural barn of the 1800’s located at Falls Mill, Belvidere, Tennessee Agriculture is a technology (like fire and the wheel) and a system of extracting minerals and nutrients from the soil through photosynthesis. The industrial method of agriculture adds the use of fossil fuels through the Haber-Bosch process for fertilizer, many different […]
How healthy is your soil?
How healthy is your soil? In celebration of World Soil Day, December 5, 2021, we want to help farmers around the world to better understand their soil. Our soils are an incredible resource – they have a remarkable ability to clean water and help mitigate climate change, they support biodiversity and are the reason we […]
“How dry I am “: Four types of drought and how they can affect gardeners and gardens
“How dry I am “: Four types of drought and how they can affect gardeners and gardens Linda’s post last week about “drought-resistant” plants made me think about drought and how different types of drought affect gardeners in different ways. In her article, she defined drought as “an unusual lack of rainfall”. This is one of […]
COP26: Uberizing Farms to Save the Climate
COP26: Uberizing Farms to Save the Climate At COP26, there was a notable silence around the distorted food system that pollutes the Earth and our bodies, writes Vijay Prashad. Mining Cryptocurrency, 2021. (Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research) As the last private plane took off from the Glasgow airport and the dust settled, the detritus of the 26th […]
Why the Climate Change Committee should reconsider their approach to farming
https://sustainablefoodtrust.org/articles/why-the-ccc-should-reconsider-their-approach-to-farming/
Regenerative agriculture in the Amazon
Regenerative agriculture in the Amazon Meet the EcoAraguaia: Camp Farm of the Future! EcoAraguaia Farm of the Future is a former cattle ranch in the Amazon rainforest with a big mission: to show the world how producing food, restoring nature, and creating livelihoods can go hand in hand. The key to all of this? Regenerative […]
Emergency #Permaculture: Are You Prepared?
Emergency #Permaculture: Are You Prepared?
Sunchokes: The Ultimate Prepper Survival Food
Sunchokes: The Ultimate Prepper Survival Food “Keep your face to the sunshine, and you cannot see the shadow. It’s what sunflowers do.”— Helen Keller. The sunflower should be the symbol of preppers and survivors, and it’s the unsung hero that every prepper should grow, know how to recognize in the wild, and use. Helianthus comprises […]
Farmers Wait Weeks For John Deere Parts As Strikes Paralyze Midwest Factories
Farmers Wait Weeks For John Deere Parts As Strikes Paralyze Midwest Factories Multiple John Deere dealerships report part delays for tractors and heavy equipment amid an ongoing strike of more than 10,000 members of the United Auto Workers union at 12 of Deere’s Midwest factories and facilities, according to Bloomberg. Dealerships note that customers face weeks-long […]
Increasing Our Gardening Resilience
Increasing Our Gardening Resilience Thoughts on increasing our gardening resilience It feels like the world is moving faster and faster in directions I never would have thought possible just a couple of years ago. We knew resilience was important, but now it has become essential, critical to our well being and perhaps even survival. I […]
‘I’m afraid we’re going to have a food crisis’: The energy crunch has made fertilizer too expensive to produce, says Yara CEO
‘I’m afraid we’re going to have a food crisis’: The energy crunch has made fertilizer too expensive to produce, says Yara CEO The world is facing the prospect of a dramatic shortfall in food production as rising energy prices cascade through global agriculture, the CEO of Norwegian fertilizer giant Yara International says. “I want to say […]
