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How the Cult of the Colossal Imperils American Agriculture
How the Cult of the Colossal Imperils American Agriculture Stressed-out farmers today only grow food for global consumption, and that is leading to a crisis at home. Jurga Jot/Shutterstock The 2018 farm bill is currently at a standstill as congressmen debate proposed changes to the bill’s SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) provisions. SNAP is a […]
Igniting the Local Food Revolution in Your Community
Igniting the Local Food Revolution in Your Community Webinar Description: For the local food movement to grow exponentially in your community, you must take your place on the front lines. To ignite a new level of impact, effectiveness, and scale, you must master the seven revolutionary steps of building a regional foodshed: Making the transition […]
The great agricultural resettlement or the next chapter of the fall
The great agricultural resettlement or the next chapter of the fall Here’s my own picture. I am a farmer and that is where my world begins. What is an agriculture? I say it is a culture of cities, towns and villages, bridges, roads, canals, harbours – of trades’ people and the trades, which have been […]
Inefficient productivity or productive inefficiency?
Inefficient productivity or productive inefficiency? New research demonstrates – again – how deceptive the concepts of productivity and efficiency are in agriculture. Huge increases in labor productivity and modest increases in land productivity are gained by a massive increase of use of external resources, while natural capital is depleted. Is that efficient? There is a […]
Farming for a Small Planet
Farming for a Small Planet People yearn for alternatives to industrial agriculture, but they are worried. They see large-scale operations relying on corporate-supplied chemical inputs as the only high-productivity farming model. Another approach might be kinder to the environment and less risky for consumers, but, they assume, it would not be up to the task […]
The Mindset of Monoculture
THE MINDSET OF MONOCULTURE Since the onset of the Industrial Revolution, it has been fairly easy to fall into the mindset of monoculture. The lure of big machines offering us power and control; making our lives easier in some senses, but more complicated in others; has led us into an all-encompassing embrace of the mindset […]
Food as Medicine
Food as Medicine Hippocrates said “Let food be they medicine, and medicine be thy food.” At the doctor’s office for my annual checkup I was asked to list any herbs I take and I thought “this should be interesting.” Sure, I take herbal supplements but what about all the fresh or dried herbs I cook […]
No-Till Farming For Healthier Soil and Lifestyles
NO-TILL FARMING FOR HEALTHIER SOIL AND LIFESTYLES Masanobu Fukuoka, the late Japanese farmer, developed a unique farming system he called “Natural Farming.” Trying to replicate what he saw in Nature, Fukuoka´s no till system allowed the soil to continually grow in fertility. Through the use of mulch and cover crops, this system effectively allows for […]
The Seeds of Agroecology and Common Ownership
The Seeds of Agroecology and Common Ownership The increasingly globalised industrial food system that transnational agribusiness promotes is not feeding the world and is responsible for some of the planet’s most pressing political, social and environmental crises. Localised, traditional methods of food production have given way to globalised supply chains dominated by transnational companies policies and actions which […]
Farming for a Small Planet: Agroecology Now
Farming for a Small Planet: Agroecology Now The primary obstacle to sustainable food security is an economic model and thought system, embodied in industrial agriculture, that views life in disassociated parts, obscuring the destructive impact this approach has on humans, natural resources, and the environment. Industrial agriculture is characterized by waste, pollution, and inefficiency, and […]
The Problem of Agriculture
The Problem of Agriculture This is an excerpt from the new book Plain Radical: Living, Loving, and Learning to Leave the Planet Gracefully, published by Counterpoint/Soft Skull, which tells the story of Robert Jensen’s intellectual and political collaboration with teacher/activist Jim Koplin. I was born and raised in North Dakota, a rural state with an economy […]
Joel Salatin: The Pursuit Of Food Freedom
Joel Salatin: The Pursuit Of Food Freedom A right worth fighting for Sustainable farming activist Joel Salatin and author of Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal returns this week to talk about the importance of a basic human right: to choose what to eat. In past podcasts, he’s described the challenges facing farmers who want to grow organically. […]
Back in time: Retracing the path to diversity
Back in time: Retracing the path to diversity Industrial bread production is based on speed, scale and uniformity. To supply this system, industrially grown grain is limited to a few, highly controlled varieties. But greater diversity would make grain crops more adaptable and therefore more sustainable in the long run. How are some plant breeders, […]
Honeybee Collapse is the Result of Their Enslavement in Industrial Monocultures
Honeybee Collapse is the Result of TheirEnslavement in Industrial Monocultures As you may have noticed, last week the media was once again filled with yet another round of collapsing honeybee stories, this time the coverage being about the loss of 42.1 percent of hives in the US over the past year, the second largest die-off […]
