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Farming: Why do you have grass?
One of the arguments I hear often about why we have to continue modern industrial farming practices is because there just isn’t enough arable land to grow enough food for everyone. I almost always wonder what the latest person who said such a thing is doing with his or her yard. Seriously, what are you doing […] Continue reading
Posted in Farming, Food, Law, Philosophy
Tagged arable land, chickens, Choices, Experiments, farmers, Farming, food production, grain, Grass, industrial farming, Life, revolutions, Self-sufficiency, self-sustainment
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Farming: 1st Anniversary
The beginning of the new school year reminds me that I have reached a milestone: one year since I started farming full-time. It’s been a bumpy year, with big successes and catastrophic failures along the way. I’ve learned more in the past year than I think I have in the rest of my life put together, and […] Continue reading
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Tagged Anniversaries, Experiments, Farming, Life, revolutions, Self-sufficiency, self-sustainment
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Farming: Our industrial food supply is killing us
Right here in the Miami Valley is dramatic, tragic evidence that our industrial food production system is threatening our lives and livelihoods in direct and dramatic ways. First comes the toxic poisoning of Grand Lake-St. Marys by an algae bloom fed by farm run-off. The bloom is so bad–and so toxic–that the State of Ohio […] Continue reading
Posted in Farming, Philosophy
Tagged algae, Choices, Farming, Grand Lake-St. Marys, head scab, no contact, revolutions, toxin, vomitoxin, wheat
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Farming: Women in farming
If you are a woman and you care about what your friends and family eat, even what the world eats, then this article on OrganicToBe.com might be about you. It seems that one of the big new trends in small-scale sustainable farming is that more and more women are doing it, and that makes a […] Continue reading
Farming: The cost of food
I recently came across an article on Gizmag.com about AeroFarms urban vertical aeroponic systems. I found the article to be an interesting and exciting description of yet another way for humans to grow food in environments where food production has been traditionally difficult or impossible. What caught my attention more than the article, though, were the […] Continue reading
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Tagged change, cost, Experiments, Farming, food production, ideas, Independence, revolutions
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