Scarcity and degradation of land and water: growing threat to food security
New FAO report profiles the state of the natural resource base upon which world food production depends Widespread degradation and deepening scarcity of land and water resources have placed a number of key food production systems around the globe at risk, posing a profound challenge to the task of feeding a world population expected to […]
Should we tax soda?
Nanny State vs Daddy Market By: Raj Patel Bigger isn’t always better. By 2030, half of Americans won’t just be overweight, but obese. By then, nearly a fifth of our healthcare dollars will be spent treating the diseases that come with being bigger. Our lifestyles, rich in fat, sugar and inactivity, are creating a debt that’ll […]
VIDEO: Farm Work Day at Boggs Tract, Oct. 8
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Family Work Day and Divvying Out the Plots at Boggs Tract Community Farm
PODCAST: Paul Wheaton Reviews Chpt. 4 of “Gaia’s Garden”
Good stuff! Follow the link below to listen to Paul discuss dirt vs. soil, how more soil organisms leads to more food, how nitrogen fixing plants share nitrogen with other plants while they are alive, the benfits of rotational grazing, hugelkultur, the benifits and drawbacks of composting, and more! Click here to listen to the podcast
McDiabetes: Will McDonald’s Ever Stop Peddling Its Killer Junk to Kids?
McDonald’s should heed a call from some of the nation’s leading health professionals and stop marketing junk food to kids. It certainly has good reason to do so. One in three children is at risk for developing type 2 diabetes at some point in their lives as a result of diets high in McDonald’s-style junk […]
VIDEO: A Day at the San Joaquin County Fair Garden
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Untapped crop data from Africa predicts corn peril if temperatures rise
A hidden trove of historical crop yield data from Africa shows that corn — long believed to tolerate hot temperatures — is a likely victim of global warming. Stanford agricultural scientist David Lobell and researchers at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) report in the inaugural issue of Nature Climate Change next week […]
Finca de Los Perezosos (Lazy Man’s Farm)
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Bendicen lote, ahora vienen las verduras
El pasado sábado 19 de febrero de 2011 y en medio de un sitio baldío del barrio Boggs Tract representantes de varias tendencias religiosas se unieron a ancianos líderes nativoamericanos para rezar por el futuro de la primera huerta urbana en el Condado de San Joaquín. Cerca de una treintena de asistentes —entre activistas comunitarios, autoridades, medioambientalistas y, por […]