Food and Farming
Keeping an armor on the soil with living plants, crop residues or mulches protects the soil in a multitude of ways. The cultural practice of...
Food and Farming
The Regenerative Organic Alliance has developed standards for Regenerative Organic Certification (ROC) that addresses all aspects of...
Food and Farming
J.I. Rodale, an organic farming pioneer and founder of the Rodale Institute, in the Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening wrote, “In the soft warm...
Food and Farming
Grasslands, known by a variety of names – prairies, savannahs, steppes, pampas, etc. – are vast ecosystems throughout most of the world...
Food and Farming
Daphne Miller is an author and a practicing physician who spent time on seven innovative farms around the country to explore the connections among...
Eco-Nomics
Doug Gosling, the Director of The Mother Garden Biodiversity Program at The Occidental Arts and Ecology Center (OAEC), is a master...
Food and Farming
September 20th, the global morning started in Australia where more than 300,000 people marched in what is said to have been the largest...
Food and Farming
Emigdio Ballon (Quechua) was instrumental in bringing quinoa to the U.S. from Bolivia in the 1980’s, and worked with Seeds of Change in the early...
Eco-Nomics
Top photo: Chocolate beans grown in Latin America are processed in Belgium into large blocks that are sent to Canada to be melted, tempered and have...
Food and Farming
Linda Delair is a LEED accredited green building consultant and the Northern California Regional Coordinator for the California Hemp Association....
Food and Farming
Filmmaker John Chester and his wife Molly took a leap of faith leaving city life behind to become farmers with the ambitious goal of bringing life...
Food and Farming
“All the traditional seeds are like brothers and sisters. It was mostly the women who kept the seeds. My mother told me she had to trade seeds...