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Is Farming the Problem?
Is Farming the Problem? Here is a story that we tell ourselves. From The Good Ancestor: “Consider the immense legacy left by our ancestors: those who sowed the first seeds in Mesopotamia 10,000 years ago, who cleared the land, built the waterways and founded the cities where we now live, who made the scientific discoveries, won […]
Are glyphosate-based herbicides poisoning us and the environment?
Are glyphosate-based herbicides poisoning us and the environment? A new study, published on 27th January in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, conducted by an international team of scientists led by Dr Michael Antoniou of Kings College London, found that exposure to glyphosate and its commercial Roundup formulation, can disrupt the function of gut microbiome (bacteria and […]
Zero Input Agriculture
Zero Input Agriculture On Tuesday afternoon, 24th November, Evita and I ventured to meet Shane at his 40 acres near Pomona. I first heard Shane on an Abundant Edge podcast in July 2020. It was his first podcast and it was incredible to hear him talk about growing food without using inputs such as irrigation, fertiliser, and imported […]
Running Out Of Soybeans?
Running Out Of Soybeans? Why food shortages may define the future Several factors are conspiring to weaken the reliability of our food production systems, warns Christian Westbrook, publisher of the website IceAgeFarmer.com We’re seeing a shortening of the growing season for important crops due to weather trends and changes in the solar cycle. Our food production […]
Why the Climate Change Committee have got it wrong on land, food and farming
Why the Climate Change Committee have got it wrong on land, food and farming Last week I spent what I must admit to have been two rather depressing sessions participating in a zoom conference convened by the Climate Change Committee (CCC) in order to share their vision and strategy for reaching net zero emissions by 2050, with a particular […]
250 Million Protestors in India – Almost the Population of the United States
250 Million Protestors in India – Almost the Population of the United States For centuries, India was the source of the spice trade. Christopher Columbus thought he discovered a shortcut to India but bumped into America. The various spices in India have been used also for practices such as yoga, meditation, and Ayurveda. They are […]
Transforming life on our home planet, perennially
Transforming life on our home planet, perennially Ed. note: This piece is the first contribution in the new book The Perennial Turn: Contemporary Essays from the Field, ed. by Bill Vitek and published as a free ebook by New Perennials Publishing. For those who are willing to face the multiple, cascading crises that humans have created, […]
India’s One-Day General Strike Largest in History
India’s One-Day General Strike Largest in History If those who struck on Nov. 26 formed a country, it would be the fifth largest in the world after China, India, the United States and Indonesia, writes Vijay Prashad. India’s general strike on Nov. 26, 2020. (IndustriALL Global Union, Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Farmers and agricultural workers […]
A global movement for localised food and farming: The beginning of agriculture in Europe
A global movement for localised food and farming: The beginning of agriculture in Europe Image: Kelly Reed, Reconstructed Neolithic house at Sopot, Croatia The world we inhabit today has changed dramatically since we first began farming thousands of years ago. Yet the challenge to provide food security to all is not new and has been […]
Both hands now – an introduction to ‘A Small Farm Future’
Both hands now – an introduction to ‘A Small Farm Future’ Today I’m going to begin my cycle of posts commenting on, expanding and perhaps occasionally qualifying the analyses in my book A Small Farm Future. You have bought your copy by now, right? Ah well … far be it from me to tell you what to do […]
Study warns US farmland is now 48 TIMES more TOXIC to insects: Are neonicotinoids to blame for the impending “insect apocalypse?”
Study warns US farmland is now 48 TIMES more TOXIC to insects: Are neonicotinoids to blame for the impending “insect apocalypse?” (Natural News) Researchers have determined that the nation’s farmland is now 48 times more toxic to insects than it was just 25 years ago, and much of this rise in toxicity is being blamed […]
Building Bioregional Food Systems Post-COVID 19: The Northeast Healthy Soil Network & the power of regional food system reform consortium work
Building Bioregional Food Systems Post-COVID 19: The Northeast Healthy Soil Network & the power of regional food system reform consortium work If the public demands it, we have all we need to build a regional food system in the Northeast. Thanks to COVID, the people are demanding it. COVID-19 has reminded us, perhaps as never […]
Food Shortages to Reduce the Population Brought to you by the COVID Triumvirate
Food Shortages to Reduce the Population Brought to you by the COVID Triumvirate This is a photo of the food line beside the Brooklyn Bridge approach in New York City that prevailed between 1930 and 1935. Never before in history have Americans had to cue in line for food since this orchestrated pandemic by Gates, […]
An alternative agriculturist’s guide to science
An alternative agriculturist’s guide to science To begin, just a heads up on a couple of new things on the site. First, I’ve posted on the My Book page advanced comments about my forthcoming book that have come in from a number of interesting thinkers. It’s nice to get such positive notices. Currently, I’m pretty busy gearing […]
Slaughter of the Innocents: COVID-19 & the Future of Agriculture
Slaughter of the Innocents: COVID-19 & the Future of Agriculture listen to the author read this post: or watch on YouTube It’s early days yet, but the COVID-19 pandemic has already proven to be revelatory, exposing much that is ugly about the “normal” functioning of the US: the sorry state of health care, the unresponsiveness […]
