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Ranchers Sell Off Cattle And Farmers Idle Hundreds Of Thousands Of Acres As America’s Drought Emergency Escalates
Ranchers Sell Off Cattle And Farmers Idle Hundreds Of Thousands Of Acres As America’s Drought Emergency Escalates In my entire lifetime, this is the worst that drought conditions have ever been in the western half of the country. During the past 20 years, the amount of territory in the West considered to be suffering from […]
How To Start a Pallet Garden and What Vegetables Grow Best With It?
How To Start a Pallet Garden and What Vegetables Grow Best With It? Have you ever been searching through Pinterest and found a project you know you wanted to do? Of course, you have! Last Fall I was looking for ways to expand my garden, and I came across an article on pallet gardens. I […]
Agriculture In A Post-Oil Economy
Agriculture In A Post-Oil Economy The decline in the world’s oil supply offers no sudden dramatic event that would appeal to the writer of “apocalyptic” science fiction: no mushroom clouds, no flying saucers, no giant meteorites. The future will be just like today, only tougher. Oil depletion is basically just a matter of overpopulation — […]
How the World’s Energy Problem Has Been Hidden
How the World’s Energy Problem Has Been Hidden We live in a world where words are very carefully chosen. Companies hire public relations firms to give just the right “spin” to what they are saying. Politicians make statements which suggest that everything is going well. Newspapers would like their advertisers to be happy; they certainly […]
Marti’s Corner – 15
Marti’s Corner – 15 Hi Everyone, NOTES: * All of my vegetables are planted in containers. Here is a good article about planting in 5-gallon buckets. Bucket Container Planting Vegetables – Using Buckets For Growing Vegetables These buckets are under $3 at Lowes and Home Depot. Considering the cost of planting containers, and if you don’t mind […]
Food Crisis of 2021 in Europe
Food Crisis of 2021 in Europe We are staring in the face of a serious food crisis in Europe as food prices rise continuously, and with further draconian COVID measures within the EU, they are bringing the food supply chains to a standstill. Our models have been warned that this 8.6-year cyclical wave into 2024 […]
A third of global farmland at ‘high’ pesticide pollution risk
A third of global farmland at ‘high’ pesticide pollution risk Nearly two-thirds of global agricultural land is at risk of pesticide pollution, a study says A third of the planet’s agricultural land is at “high risk” of pesticide pollution from the lingering residue of chemical ingredients that can leach into water supplies and threaten biodiversity, […]
Marti’s Corner – 11
Marti’s Corner – 11 NOTES: * Here is a packet of seeds like the one I mentioned last week. There are 40 different varieties of seeds. They are 100% heirloom. This means that you can save the seeds from year to year. There is a 5-year shelf life if kept in a cool, dark place. […]
On The Verge Of A Global Crisis: One Bank Warns Of A “Biblical” Surge In Food Prices
On The Verge Of A Global Crisis: One Bank Warns Of A “Biblical” Surge In Food Prices Biblical, Lean, and Mean: ‘Dreams’ of an agri-commodity super-cycle Then Pharaoh said to Joseph: “Behold, in my dream I stood on the bank of the river. Suddenly seven cows came up out of the river, fine looking and […]
Permaculture
Permaculture A design system that offers a radical reimagination of the possible Permaculture is a design system that mimics the patterns of flourishing ecosystems to create ecologically regenerative human societies. First developed by Australians Bill Mollison and David Holmgren in the 1970s, permaculture takes inspiration from Indigenous and ‘traditional’ agrarian practices. Mollison and Holmgren created […]
The last of the fossil fuels ?
The last of the fossil fuels ? If the story of humankind starts with the invention of fire, then wood is the fuel that changed the world. But fast forward a million or so years to the Anthropocene age, and more than a third of the people on this planet are still so impoverished that […]
Co-op says #NotInMySupermarket
Co-op says #NotInMySupermarket After a joint letter organised by Beyond GM and Slow Food UK, and signed by a wide range of organisations, including the Sustainable Food Trust, Co-op is the first UK supermarket to say it will not stock products made from untested and unregulated ‘gene-edited’. In response to a civil society appeal […]
Agricultural Elephant in the Room
Agricultural Elephant in the Room Abandoned dairy barn, Willamette Valley, Oregon. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. I find it strange Americans and, especially, scientists and politicians talk to little, if at all, about agriculture. And yet agriculture gives us food and, surreptitiously, threatens the future. Vast number of Americans live in large cities like New York, […]
Who eats local food?
Who eats local food? The question of who eats local food is a tricky one to pin down. There is first the question of what constitutes ‘local food’ – if you’re a farmer raising grass-fed beef or lamb in Wales that you then sell across country, most people would say that’s local enough; but what […]
