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Potash Price Surge Could Lead To Higher Food Costs For Billions
Potash Price Surge Could Lead To Higher Food Costs For Billions We are on the precipice of a food fight among 7 billion people, and potash will be right at the center of it. If you can add 200,000 people every day to the global population and account for a significant loss of farmland […]
Why You Need to Become More Self-Reliant NOW, No Matter Where You Live
Why You Need to Become More Self-Reliant NOW, No Matter Where You Live Recently, I spoke with Rory from The Daily Coin about the potential for economic collapse and why we need to pay attention to what’s going on in Venezuela. We discussed how to prepare for it, why everyone needs to work on becoming more […]
Scenes From The Venezuela Apocalypse: “Countless Wounded” After 5,000 Loot Supermarket Looking For Food
Scenes From The Venezuela Apocalypse: “Countless Wounded” After 5,000 Loot Supermarket Looking For Food Over the last several years we have documented with clockwork regularity Venezuela’s collapse into failed state status, which was cemented several weeks ago when news hit that “Venezuela had officially run out of money to print new money.” At that point […]
Climate Change Adds Urgency To Push to Save World’s Seeds
Climate Change Adds Urgency To Push to Save World’s Seeds In the face of rising temperatures and worsening drought, the world’s repositories of agricultural seeds may hold the key to growing food under increasingly harsh conditions. But keeping these gene banks safe and viable is a complicated and expensive challenge. During the 872-day German siege of […]
How Do You Handle Emergency Food Storage?
How Do You Handle Emergency Food Storage? As I write this, we are in the middle of Winter Storm Jonas. There is 13″ of snow in the yard and the closest paved road is five miles away. I haven’t been off the property in five days and did not make a trip to the store […]
Apple crop under threat after cold snap follows early spring
Apple crop under threat after cold snap follows early spring Warm weather caused apple trees to start budding earlier than normal, and the fruits are now in danger by the cold snap that followed. (Pascal Rossignol/Reuters) Apple farmers in the East worry the late-season Arctic blast could take a big bite from their budding crops. […]
We’re Not Going To Make It…
We’re Not Going To Make It… …without real sacrifice Right now I’m on a Metro North train heading the NYC. I’ve been invited to sit on an advisory council at the UN on building a sustainable energy future. I’ll let you know how the meeting goes, after I take a few selfies to immortalize the experience in […]
Ideas, Thoughts And Observations On Home Canning
Ideas, Thoughts And Observations On Home Canning We’ve only two adults in the household these days (not counting pets of any age) and here’s a few ideas I use for ‘down sizing’ & trying to manage the food rotation. All just a few basic ideas, humble opinions, etc., that I’m happy to share with any […]
Nature Farming–Done Naturally
NATURE FARMING – DONE NATURALLY Throwing some seeds over a cleared piece of land may seem a haphazard method of farming, a negative person may say it’s doomed to failure, but proof to the contrary is here – a happy plant-filled field that will produce a great yield. It may seem like beginner’s luck that the rice […]
Tips On Saving Seeds
Tips On Saving Seeds There are no guarantees in this world we live in today. We can’t rest assured that the grocery store will always be there or that its shelves will always be stocked full of food. We can’t count on our local home supply store having rows and rows of different seed packets to choose […]
It’s the Food Economy, Stupid!
It’s the Food Economy, Stupid! I believe Rod MacRae (shown here) is one of a handful of experts to develop a critique of today’s food system based on its bad business case and its failure to do proper scenario planning. If you don’t like reading arithmetic, you will find his writings tough going, but as soon […]
Joel Salatin: The Promise Of Regenerative Farming
Joel Salatin: The Promise Of Regenerative Farming It may well be our only long-term food solution Front man for the sustainable/regenerative farming movement, Joel Salatin, returns to the podcast this week. Next month on April 23rd, he’ll be joining Adam, the folks from Singing Frogs Farm, permaculturalist Toby Hemenway, and Robb Wolf at a speaking event […]
The Farm That Grows Climate Solutions
THE FARM THAT GROWS CLIMATE SOLUTIONS Here’s how agriculture can make sequestered carbon one of its most valuable products. March 9, 2016 — Editor’s note: The following is adapted from The Carbon Farming Solution: A Global Toolkit of Perennial Crops and Regenerative Agriculture Practices for Climate Change Mitigation and Food Security by Eric Toensmeier (2016). The book introduces […]
`The Self-Reliance Weekly Report: Acts of Nature, Farm Fresh Eggs, and DIYs
`The Self-Reliance Weekly Report: Acts of Nature, Farm Fresh Eggs, and DIYs The Self-Reliance Weekly Report discusses acts of nature, along with a healthy helping of information about eggs from the backyard and, of course, unique and frugal DIYs from across the web. Despite the epic drought in California, the state also has a long history […]
