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Weeds: Real Nutrition, For Free

 Dandelion leaves are extremely nutrient-rich, accumulating over 400% more calcium and zinc than the average plant. Weeds: Real Nutrition, For Free If you’re walking over chickweed and dandelion in your lawn or ignoring a nettle patch by the garden wall as you hop in the car and drive to the grocery store and pharmacy, you’re […]

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GREEN Foundation is Reversing Negative Effects of the Green Revolution

GREEN Foundation is Reversing Negative Effects of the Green Revolution The GREEN Foundation is working to slow the rate of farmer suicides in India and improve conditions for farmers—especially women—whose traditional agricultural methods were stripped away by the Green Revolution. A 20th-century push by Western agronomists to decrease hunger in developing nations, the Green Revolution […]

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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 […]

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The Gift of the Maya

The Gift of the Maya “The Maya forest garden holds, in its ramblings and roots, a hidden-in-plain-sight way through our present crises.” It takes a bit of time for the elegance of a food forest to emerge, something on the order of decades. Strolling the garden through the morning mist in a hot Tennessee summer, […]

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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 […]

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From Monoculture to Permaculture

From Monoculture to Permaculture. When Warren Brush bought a run down orchard near Ventura, California, he knew he was in for the ride of his life transforming it into a Permaculture farm. From an original monoculture persimmon, apple and avocado orchard, it’s a risky challenge to turn all this around and announce you are now […]

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