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Stream What Makes Our Fertilising Practices Unsustainable? by The Green Exchange from desktop or your mobile device 
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80% of items sold in supermarkets is wrapped in toxic packaging. In effect, Americans still produce near 3 pounds of trash every day, and this is a big problem. So what could be an intelligent solution?
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This essay uses over a dozen working farms across the country (& a few other countries) to illustrate some of the key principles of the ecologically-based agriculture that will be required in the transition ahead. …The next steps are up to you, kid.
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Nuestras Raíces is a grassroots organization that promotes human, economic, and community development in Holyoke, Massachusetts, through projects relating to food, agriculture and the environment.
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"Industrial agriculture concentrates social power and exacerbates problems of food insecurity and poverty, whereas small-scale organic farming on an individual or community level can significantly distribute social power across communities all over the world. An approach like this is one we like to call “yardfarming” (a concept we’ve spent the last year advocating for through www.Yardfarmers.us).
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What would happen if communities took higher education into their own hands? What if education meant pursuing our passions and growing at our edges, immersed in a culture of creativity, accountability, integrity and action? What if instead of using degrees to measure our success, we were credited by the direct impact our work has on the world? We could transform our communities and build resilient new systems that will carry us through the next century.
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FOR CENTURIES OUR ANCESTORS PRODUCED SEED TO GROW THEIR OWN CROPS. EACH YEAR THEY SOWED IT. THE SEED GAVE PLANTS AND THE PLANTS GAVE SEED. EACH YEAR, FARMERS SELECTED SEED FROM PLANTS…
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