Vertical Gardening: The Key to a Lack of Floor Area. Intensive Gardening: Grow More Food in Less Space (With the Least Work!) Whether you grow food on a spacious homestead or are digging into your first urban garden, ditching the plant-by-rows approach and instead adopting intensive gardening techniques can help you grow a more productive garden that’s also more efficient to manage.
These methods will open up a new world when it comes to small-space gardening, which can be so much more than just a few lone pots on a balcony. If you do it right, you can grow more food in less space and put an impressive dent in your household’s fresh-food needs. Comparing 2 Popular Intensive Gardening Methods. How Organic Farming Can Reverse Climate Change. Rodale Institute announced yesterday the launch of a global campaign to generate public awareness of soil’s ability to reverse climate change, but only when the health of the soil is maintained through organic regenerative agriculture.
The campaign calls for the restructuring of our global food system with the goal of reversing climate change through photosynthesis and biology. The white paper, Regenerative Organic Agriculture and Climate Change: A Down-to-Earth Solution to Global Warming, is the central tool of the campaign. The paper was penned by Rodale Institute, the independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit agricultural research institute widely recognized as the birthplace of the organic movement in the U.S.
The white paper states that “We could sequester more than 100% of current annual CO2 emissions with a switch to widely available and inexpensive organic management practices, which we term ‘regenerative organic agriculture.'” Tribes Create Their Own Food Laws to Stop USDA From Killing Native Food Economies. Jacob Butler checks on grapes in the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community garden.
YES! Photo by Tristan Ahtone. SALT RIVER PIMA-MARICOPA INDIAN COMMUNITY, Ariz. – Jacob Butler eyed a lemon tree—its bright yellow fruit nestled among thick green leaves and set against the blue Arizona sky—then checked on the tiny pomegranates and grapes in the garden as a black-striped lizard darted into the shade of a mesquite tree. Introducing aquaponics - Sanctuary Magazine. Issue 32Words: Ellie WattsPhotography: Robbie Kershaw Aquaponics is a zero-waste, low-input system for growing fish and vegetables in tandem, and is seen as part of the solution to a more sustainable food system.
The best bit is you can do it in your own garden. Growing fruit and vegetables in the city is an increasingly important part of the food system. Localised food growing makes sense, particularly as rising food costs and an increase in extreme weather events threaten the current method of transporting food grown far away to our urban centres.
Urban agriculture is one way to reduce food transportation and related carbon emissions, but traditional farming requires a lot of space, water and fertilizers. Ernte teilen. 36 Foods That Help Detox and Cleanse Your Entire Body. Practiced for thousands of years by cultures around the world –detoxification is about resting, cleansing and nourishing the body from the inside out.
By removing and eliminating toxins, then feeding your body with healthy nutrients, detoxifying can help protect you from disease and renew your ability to maintain optimum health. These foods will assist in boosting your metabolism, optimizing digestion, while allowing you to lose weight and fortify your immune system. Artichokes help the liver function at its best, which in turn will help your body purge itself of toxins and other things it doesn’t need to survive. It ups the liver’s production of bile, and since bile helps break down foods which helps your body use the nutrients inside them, an increase in bile production is typically a good thing.
Consumers Will Soon Have Devices In Their Hands To Detect GMO and Toxic Foods. Marco Torres, Prevent DiseaseWaking Times.
Slow Food International - Good, Clean and Fair food.
Solidarische Landwirtschaft e.V. Slow Food Deutschland e.V. ~ Willkommen. Teekampagne. The Centrality of Seed: Building Agricultural Resilience Through Plant Breeding. Five of the global issues most frequently debated today are the decline of biodiversity in general and of agrobiodiversity in particular, climate change, hunger and malnutrition, poverty and water.
Seed is central to all five issues. Seedsave.org. Saving seed - Sanctuary Magazine. Issue 34Words: Sarah ColesPhotography: Global Crop Diversity Trust Seed saving–the act of saving seed from vegetables, grains, herbs and flowers– has a long history.
Seed Banks. Diverse_boersen. The seed emergency: The threat to food and democracy. New Delhi, India - The seed is the first link in the food chain - and seed sovereignty is the foundation of food sovereignty.
If farmers do not have their own seeds or access to open pollinated varieties that they can save, improve and exchange, they have no seed sovereignty - and consequently no food sovereignty. The deepening agrarian and food crisis has its roots in changes in the seed supply system, and the erosion of seed diversity and seed sovereignty. Seeds and Seedlings.
Seeds. Kolumbianische Saatgut-Aktivisten in Europa. Trade deals criminalise farmers' seeds. What could be more routine than saving seeds from one season to the next?
After all, that is how we grow crops on our farms and in our gardens. Yet from Guatemala to Ghana, from Mozambique to Malaysia, this basic practice is being turned into a criminal offence, so that half a dozen large multinational corporations can turn seeds into private property and make money from them. But people are fighting back and in several countries popular mobilisations are already forcing governments to put seed privatisation plans on hold. Agroecological farming can double food produx in 10 yrs. A new UN report released today is making headlines: Agroecological farming can double food production within 10 years, while mitigating climate change AND alleviating poverty.
Yes!! I was elated to read the morning’s coverage of this highly anticipated report from the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Olivier de Schutter. Monsanto really wants you to believe we need GMOs to feed the world. We don't. Here's 8 reasons why. A quick note from our founder- Vandana Shiva on the Problem with Genetically Modified Seeds. Argentina's Bad Seeds - People & Power. Filmmakers: Glenn Ellis and Guido Bilbao For much of the past decade Argentina has seen a commodities-driven export boom, built largely on genetically-modified soy bean crops and the aggressive use of pesticides.
Argentina's leaders say it has turned the country's economy around, while others say the consequences are a dramatic surge in cancer rates, birth defects and land theft. People & Power investigates if Argentina's booming soy industry is a disaster in the making. By Glenn Ellis As I flew in to Buenos Aires to make this film, all the talk was of President Cristina Kirchner’s latest gambit. UN/WHO panel in conflict of interest row over glyphosate cancer risk. A UN panel that on Tuesday ruled that glyphosate was probably not carcinogenic to humans has now become embroiled in a bitter row about potential conflicts of interests. It has emerged that an institute co-run by the chairman of the UN’s joint meeting on pesticide residues (JMPR) received a six-figure donation from Monsanto, which uses the substance as a core ingredient in its bestselling Roundup weedkiller.
Professor Alan Boobis, who chaired the UN’s joint FAO/WHO meeting on glyphosate, also works as the vice-president of the International Life Science Institute (ILSI) Europe. The co-chair of the sessions was Professor Angelo Moretto, a board member of ILSI’s Health and Environmental Services Institute, and of its Risk21 steering group too, which Boobis also co-chairs. Alternative Nobelpreisträgerin über Gentech: "Die sind auf Lügen spezialisiert" Alternative Nobelpreisträgerin über Gentech Vandana Shiva über das Saatgutmonopol vom Gentech-Giganten Monsanto, Selbstmord von 250.000 indischen Bauern, Baumwolle und Einstein. Indische Farmer pflügen ein Feld, bevor sie Baumwolle aussäen. Die EU und der Wundermais: Die zweifelhaften Versprechen der Genlobby.
Myths about industrial agriculture. Encouraging Collective Farmers Marketing Initatives. Allianz und Nahrungsmittelspekulation. Die Allianz ist die Nummer eins in Deutschland. Leider nicht nur unter den Versicherungen, sondern auch bei der Spekulation mit Nahrungsmitteln. Step aside agribusiness, it's time for real solutions to the climate crisis. GRAIN. Home. Monsanto versus the people - Opinion. Last week Monsanto announced staggering profits from 2012 to celebratory shareholders while American farmers filed into Washington, DC to challenge the Biotech giant’s right to sue farmers whose fields have become contaminated with Monsanto’s seeds.
On January 10 oral arguments began before the U.S. Court of Appeals to decide whether to reverse the cases' dismissal last February. In the ring: Monsanto and the farmer - Opinion. Kein Patent auf Leben! Diese Konzerne bestimmen, welche Nahrungsmittel gesund sind und welche nicht! 01/08 - Mit Vollgas in die Hungerkrise - HQ Deutsch.