Like so many other people, I have been wasting too much time on a Facebook game called Farmville. While I have not yet reached the point of awakening in the middle of the night to harvest my virtual crops (sleep is sacred in this house), there are some mornings where the well-being of my fake…
Tag Archive: agriculture
Girl Power – Solving the problem of population growth
Last Thursday was Blog Action Day: Climate Change. Thousands of bloggers from around the world, across countries and across topics, took a day to blog about climate change. It was a profound example of the power of collected action — nearly 32,000 posts reached an estimated 17 million people. But as I was skimming through…
In Response: The Ten Reasons They Hate You So
Last week (or maybe the week before by now – I am slow!), The Ten Reasons They Hate You So made the rounds in a couple of sustainable agriculture social networking circles. I was astonished to learn that, as a liberal arts educated advocate of sustainable agriculture, I hate farmers. In order to educate my…
Bigger Isn’t Better
Farming is not adapted to large-scale operations because of the following reasons: Farming is concerned with plants and animals that live, grow, and die. – “Ancient” agricultural textbook (Cornell University, 1942) Social systems are not adapted to large-scale operations, because social systems are concerned with humans that live, grow, and die. Part of the problem…
