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New research challenges scientific orthodoxy on the role of grazing livestock in relation to emission reduction targets
New research challenges scientific orthodoxy on the role of grazing livestock in relation to emission reduction targets This week we are highlighting the announcement of what we think is one of the world’s first soil carbon sequestration offsetting partnerships, between Microsoft Corporation and the Australian Wilmot Cattle Co. The reason we are drawing this news […]
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 […]
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, […]
Farming as the climate changes
Farming as the climate changes The world is facing a climate crisis that is dramatically impacting farmers and growers across the world. As temperatures rise, rainfall becomes increasingly unpredictable, extreme weather events happen more frequently and soils are eroded through desertification. These changes mean that crop yields are increasingly inconsistent, and agricultural businesses are struggling […]
Extreme flooding from slow hurricanes a danger to farms
Extreme flooding from slow hurricanes a danger to farms Preface. Yet another danger from climate change for agriculture will be slow hurricanes and cyclones dumping a foot or more of rain over a few days such as the recent hurricanes Harvey (2017), Florence (2018), and Dorian (2019). Journal reference: Zhang G, et al. 2020. Tropical cyclone […]
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 […]
Rekindling Family Farming at Owl Oak Acres
Rekindling Family Farming at Owl Oak Acres Just before the sun sets, Evelyn (Evie) offers up the evening feed to all the animals on her family’s small ranch, Owl Oak Acres, in Red Bluff, California. She goes around from pen to pen, patiently throwing dinner over the fences to the eighteen ewes, the thirteen lambs, the […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Quiet Resilience of Willowbrook Farm
The Quiet Resilience of Willowbrook Farm Willowbrook Farm is a fifty-acre plot near Oxford on which the Radwan family grows vegetables and rears chickens, cows and sheep to produce ethical and sustainable Halal meat. Throughout the tumult of the pandemic, this farm’s small-scale model lent it incredible resilience; while much of the UK’s food system was […]
Farming as the Climate Changes: Molino de la Isla, East Pecos, New Mexico
Farming as the Climate Changes: Molino de la Isla, East Pecos, New Mexico The world is facing a climate crisis and the changes this brings are dramatically impacting farmers across the world. As temperatures rise and rainfall becomes increasingly unpredictable, production is dropping and businesses are struggling. However, in the United States, climate change still […]
A Small Farm Future: Excerpt
A Small Farm Future: Excerpt Culture Crisis This is the crisis of modernist culture – the ability to create ourselves as individuals and protect ourselves from the vicissitudes of the non-symbolic world, set against the ability to alienate ourselves as individuals and offload the consequences of our self-creation onto other people (including future people) and […]
On the efficiency of my scythe
On the efficiency of my scythe The time is nearly upon us when the feature-length version of my musings here will be released upon an unsuspecting world – A Small Farm Future (the book) will be available from 15 October in the UK and 21 October in the US. Various launch events are in the offing, and […]
To Be Farming and Fortunate
To Be Farming and Fortunate Photographed by Paige Green To arrive at Fortunate Farm, you have to drive along the California coast, either north or south, passing some of the most epic viewsheds to be seen on Coast Highway 1. The farm is hours away from any major city, and just south of Fort Bragg, a […]
The return of home-grown cereals
The return of home-grown cereals Our daily bread was for centuries the product of a community-oriented and collaborative food system. The Book of Exodus recounts the tale of the Hebrew slaves, who in their haste, fleeing for their lives from Pharoah’s Egypt, had no time for their bread to rise and so carried it upon […]
