Food & agriculture

The Making of a Hugelkultur Bed

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Thu, 2012-11-15

<p>Oh yes, I'm going to be talking a lot about hugelkultur beds because we just finished our first small section of it this afternoon.</p>
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The sufficiency economy: envisioning a prosperous way down

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Tue, 2012-11-13

<p>If a society does not have some vision of where it wants to be or what it wants to become, it cannot know whether it is heading in the right direction – it cannot even know whether it is lost. This is the confused position of consumer capitalism today, which has a fetish for economic growth but no answer to the question of what that growth is supposed to be <i>for</i>.</p>

Winemaking - 'For Medicinal Purposes'

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Fri, 2012-10-26

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/image2289-lowres.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="75" height="100" /></span>For Sustainable Bungay's 10th Plants for Life event last Sunday, Winemaking - For Medicinal Purposes, Nick Watts invited a dozen of us to his house for a practical demonstration of how

Bill and Lou: A parable for saving our broken food system

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Thu, 2012-10-25

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/oxen.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="66" /></span>Our society has become increasingly divorced from agriculture, and our assumptions about food and farming are too often based more on emotion or business interests than those of real, on-farm exper

A Wind And Solar Powered Corncrib

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Wed, 2012-10-24

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/g_0.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="75" /></span>What is being called the world’s first solar-powered flour mill is now in operation at Frankferd Farms in Butler County, Pa...It dawned on me, thinking of Frankferd Farms, that what I have here is a

By the numbers: Data highlights from Full Planet, Empty Plates

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Tue, 2012-10-23

<p>As farmers struggle to keep up with soaring demand for grain and soybeans, this ratcheting upward of food prices ensures that many of the 219,000 new guests at the global dinner table each night are facing empty plates.</p>
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Ontario’s Local Food Act: More maybe than act

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Tue, 2012-10-23

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/mcguinty-300x200.thumbnail.jpeg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="67" /></span>To get a handle on the Promoting Local Food Act tabled in the Ontario legislature on October 4, it helps to know the difference between government support and government policy.

Maize and bean farmers threatened by climate change

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Mon, 2012-10-22

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/feeling-the-heat.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="64" /></span>Over the coming decades, climate change is expected to pose major difficulties for one million maize and bean farmers in Central America.</p>

Nature's matrix: Linking agriculture, conservation and food sovereignty

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Fri, 2012-10-19

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/NaturesMatrix.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="67" height="100" /></span> In any discussion of biodiversity and species extinction, someone insists that overpopulation is the problem.

Food & agriculture - Oct 18

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Thu, 2012-10-18

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/lay_of_the_land_cover.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="71" /></span>-Big Tobacco lawyers target food industry<br>-How To Compost In Your Apartment<br>-Why Caring About Food Isn’t An Option, It’s a Responsibility

The wild side of local food

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Thu, 2012-10-18

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/h1.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="32" /></span>A friend brought me a gift I never dreamed I’d ever see, or rather eat. A loaf of pawpaw bread. Just like banana bread but with pawpaws. Why didn’t I think of that?

Farmers, workers, consumers, unite! New visions in food justice

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Wed, 2012-10-17

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/image_large_12.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="63" /></span>Since its founding in 1996, the Community Food Security Coalition has been the leading voice for people of color and the poor in a food movement that often marginalizes them in favor of w

Low Carbon Cookbook - the foragers

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Tue, 2012-10-16

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/Image2205.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="75" height="100" /></span>One of the greatest gifts of Transition is rediscovering the simple joys of doing seasonal things together - cooking, cycling, swimming in the sea, having a picnic.

Make Me!

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Mon, 2012-10-15

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/IMG_0222-300x225.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="75" /></span>No, that’s not the cry of a spoiled child. It’s food, calling to you! Anyone can grow, gather, or make a lot of their own food.

Swedish eco-village hosts role-play of life after peak oil

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Sun, 2012-10-14

<p>In early October, the eco-village, Änggärdet, Sweden, hosted two days of Live Action Role-Play (LARP) along the theme of life 2016-2027, post peak oil and post economic collapse.