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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 with society ...
"Yearning in the human soul to smell a flower, pet a pig, and enjoy food with a face has never been stronger," preaches Joel Salatin, the man responsible for Polyface Farms, one of the best known working cases for commercially viable sustainable agriculture. ...
I spent a couple hours on Saturday morning watching The Future of Food, a documentary about genetically engineered foods.* I generally consider myself fairly educated about environmental and health issues. I try to be an engaged citizen and consumer. And I like to rant about things to my skeptical family, ...
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