Category Archives: Farming
It’s a smaller world than before
[Translate] Just this month the front cover of Forbes called Monsanto “Seed Heroes”. (hack, cough, cough) Balderdash. I may buy a copy just so I can frame that cover as evidence that Forbes has abandoned even the pretext of journalistic … Continue reading
Posted in Chemical Farming, Farming, Food Law, Food Politics, Food Safety, Food Science, Recycling, Soil Science
Tagged biodegradeable, Chemical Farming, chemical-farming-statistics, effects-of-chemical-farming, Forbes, garden-activist, God, India, organic gardening, plastic, Revelation, Sauder, statistics-about-garden-chemicals
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Manure for the masses
[Translate] “We can fertilize with s**t but will have to sterilise (sic) it. That requires energy. We have to move food from farms to the public and s**t back.” That’s what I found when I stumbled upon one web site … Continue reading
Posted in Composting, Farming, Food Safety, General Environmental, Soil Science
Tagged carbon sequestration, compost, food shortage, global food shortage, humanure, manure
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Food, inc. – a first glance
[Translate] Food, inc. takes a fact-supported look at agribusiness. It’s not a pretty picture. This book is a companion publication to the movie by the same name and includes much material and additional detail that simply could not be reasonably … Continue reading Continue reading
Posted in Chemical Farming, Farming, Food Safety, Food Science, General Environmental, New Gardener
Tagged agribusiness, dead zone, Food inc, PETA, what-makes-a-dead-zone-in-city
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