Grist reports:
Anyone who’s been stung by a bee knows they can inflict an outsized pain for such tiny insects. It makes a strange kind of sense, then, that their demise would create an outsized problem for the food system by placing the more than 70 cropsthey pollinate — from almonds to apples to blueberries — [...]
By Chris Cano
Check out the Midnight garden, a canvas of “living art” powered by compost produced from the food waste of the Gainesville local restaurant community, including The Midnight’s fruit and vegetable scraps which we collect each week via bicycle.
via Building The Midnight’s New Edible Wall Garden [Photo Story] | Gainesville Compost.
Rodale Institute’s Holiday message:
Game Plan
A note from our Executive Director
Over the last three years more than one in three cultivated honey bee colonies has died nationwide, posing a serious risk to our national food supply. We believe the answer to saving the bees is the backyard beekeeper. More specifically, non-toxic and sustainable backyard beekeeping.
We are creating a [...]
Nov. 2011 City Farmer: How to make your own sourdough starter! PLUS: All about the American Chestnut. A bimonthly Fine Print column by Krissy Abdullah. Includes beautiful illustrations.
The results are in from a 30-year side-by-side trial of conventional and organic farming methods at Pennsylvania’s Rodale Institute. Contrary to conventional wisdom, organic farming outperformed conventional farming in every measure.
Rodale announced its findings and posted the full report:
The hallmark of a truly sustainable system is its ability to regenerate itself. [...]
Anybody want to order a gorgeous seed catalog for $5?
Or, better, invest in a seed company?
This story behind this offer — this extremely urgent offer — begins in 2003.
After 21 years working in venture capital, Barbara Melera was more than ready to move on. But when she had lunch with a friend who [...]
(Reuters) – Significant levels of the world’s most-used herbicide have been detected in air and water samples from two U.S. farm states, government scientists said on Wednesday, in groundbreaking research on the active ingredient in Monsanto Co’s Roundup.
“It is out there in significant levels. It is out there consistently,” said [...]
Hello! Check out my story on community gardening! – tr:
Considered by some to be a sexy subversive social movement, guerrilla gardening is an interesting evolution of activism among artists, horticulturalists, social reformers, and foodies who choose to react against harsh concrete jungles by helping blighted lands return to a semblance of Eden.
via Subaru Drive [...]
John Diodati isn’t optimistic about the beer growing in his front lawn.
What was once a small parcel of land filled with crab grass now hosts a small crop of barley, hop rhizome and sugar beets. Yet, while the crops are growing, they might not be growing fast enough for September’s block [...]
YOU’RE INVITED TO A HANDS-ON OUTDOOR DEMO OF EASY TO MAKE, LOW-COST ECO-PROJECTS:
*Rain Barrels
*Compost Bins
*Solar Dehyrdrator
*No-Till Gardening
Bat Houses
*Worm Bins
*Homemade Greenhouses
**Solar Oven
*Outdoor Shower
*Compost Toilet
*Green Low-Cost Cleaning Products
WHEN? Saturday, July 16, 9:30 – 11:30 am for ages 5 and up
12:30-4:30 pm for ages 15 & up. Optional Potluck [...]
Dan Sullivan of BioCycle reports:
Clopyralid, bifenthrin, aminopyralid. All of these agricultural chemicals have made headlines because they do not readily break down in compost. In some instances, they’ve been linked to major crop damage. In others, they’ve shut off commercial composters from some of their most lucrative markets. (See Table 1 for [...]
Studies have shown that eating locally grown food improves health, supports local economies, promotes the biodiversity of crops and reduces the environmental impact of shipping food around the world. Here are 5 convenient ways to eat local in Gainesville (and elsewhere).
Cinema Verde and Green Drinks will see you at Swallowtail Farm Spring Festival on Sunday, April 10 – Noon ’til late…see you there!
With remnants of once-legal lead paint, leaded gasoline and other pollutants from the nation’s industrial past tainting land in U.S. cities, soil researchers warn that the growing number of urban farmers and community gardeners need to test their dirt and take steps to make sure it’s safe.
They point to cities like Indianapolis, where nine out [...]
Biodiversity begins with a Bee (according to Scottish Natural Heritage)
The Ecologist
27th January,2011
Scottish Natural Heritage launch a new film in the name of safeguarding biodiversity, complete with with sword-fighting and motorcycling bees…
Scottish Natural Heritage have just released this one minute video in the name of safeguarding biodiversity, complete with with sword-fighting and motorcycling bees. Biodiversity begins [...]
The infographics posted at this link, were created by user interface and data visualization design firm FFunction to visualize the severe decline of the honey bee population (Colony Collapse Disorder) over the last 5 years, how it affects us, and why it matters.
http://www.foodandtechconnect.com/site/2011/01/visualizing-the-honey-bee-extinction/#
This four-day global event on April 11-14, 2011 will take place in San Diego, California at the Town & Country Resort. Two preconference workshops will be held on Monday, April 11. Three tracks of concurrent Conference sessions along with a trade show featuring more than 50 exhibitors are scheduled on April 12 and 13, followed [...]
FindAComposter.com is a free directory of composting facilities throughout North America, created and managed by BioCycle magazine and sponsored by the Biodegradable Products Institute.
http://findacomposter.com/
The US Ccomposting Council’s Annual Conference and Exhibition is the most widely attended composting and organics recycling show in North America. The 19th Annual Conference and Trade Show will be held January 24-27, 2011 at the Hyatt Regency, Santa Clara/San Jose, California.
http://www.compostingcouncil.org/conference/
Will Allen, founder of Growing Power, shown here in a photo from the New York Times, reflects on how we can change http://www.growingpower.org/blog/archives/697:
As I travel this country, I am filled with hope. I have seen young, middle-aged and elderly people taking control of the food systems in their communities. I see people growing food on [...]
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