Posts Tagged ‘sustainable’
Study: Sustainable Farming Proven to Increase Yield at Zero Cost
In potentially “the most important agricultural study this year,” researchers find that sustainable farming methods can help conventional agriculture “shed much of its chemical use,” according to New York Times writer and food author Mark Bittman. The Marsden Farm study, conducted by a team of government and university researchers, is a large-scale, long-term experiment that…
Read MoreUN Official: We Have Only 60 Years of Farming Left Unless We Switch to Regenerative Agriculture
According to a senior UN official, if the current rates of soil degradation continue, all of the world’s topsoil could be gone within 50 years. The Food and Agriculture Organization has reported that unless we adopt new approaches to growing food, such as organic and permaculture principles, the global amount of land suitable for food…
Read MoreUrban Farming Guys Transforming Crime-Ridden Missouri City into Sustainable Paradise
In one of the most dangerous places in the US, Lykins neighborhood, Kansas City, where people can’t sell their homes because people are too afraid to live there, the Urban Farming Guys have been hard at work building a sustainable, thriving community from the inside out. After researching and writing articles on Urban Agriculture, we…
Read MoreGotham Greens: America’s First Commercial Rooftop Greenhouse Farm On Whole Foods Store
A neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, is now benefiting from a revolutionary partnership in urban agriculture — a 20,000-square-foot rooftop greenhouse built on a Whole Foods supermarket. The partnering farmers are from a company called Gotham Greens, and together they are growing high-quality, pesticide-free produce year-round for their customers. Gotham Greens says the new facility…
Read MoreBiochar Significantly Increases Plant Health and Restores Environment
The future of agriculture is to produce the highest quality, most health-giving foods possible, and in a way that benefits both the earth and its people. Through the practice of modern agriculture – and its use of chemical fertilizers, pesticides, as well as the production of annual grains as staple foods – we have turned…
Read MoreHumanure – Goodbye, Toilets. Hello, Extreme Composting!
For more than a decade, 57-year-old roofer and writer Joseph Jenkins has been advocating that we flush our toilets down the drain and put a bucket in the bathroom instead. When a bucket in one of his five bathrooms is full, he empties it in the compost pile in his backyard in rural Pennsylvania. Eventually…
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