Food & Agriculture
52 Organic Farms Near Ottawa, Ontario | Regenerative Agriculture Ottawa
Recently, I moved all the way from my hometown of Kitchener, Ontario to a little town near Ottawa. After I was settled in, I wanted to connect with the local farmers, and begin purchasing most of my food from them as well. Ultimately, I made a massive list of farms in the area, for myself,…
Read MoreGenetically Modified Food and The Threat of Human Extinction
The biggest threat posed by genetically modified food to humanity by far is the spraying of deadly herbicides on plants that we call food. Not only is this poison directly toxic to plants, animals and humans, but by binding to metal ions it also significantly reduces mineral availability to the plants and to the people…
Read MoreStudy: Sustainable Farming Proven to Increase Yield at Zero Cost
In potentially “the most important agricultural study this year,” researchers find that sustainable farming methods can help conventional agriculture “shed much of its chemical use,” according to New York Times writer and food author Mark Bittman. The Marsden Farm study, conducted by a team of government and university researchers, is a large-scale, long-term experiment that…
Read More3D Printed ‘Living Food’ Designed and Printed by The Edible Growth Project
Chloe’s 3D printed structures are made from a paste of living organisms including seeds, spores and yeast, which then grow and fully develop in about 5 days. The idea of 3D-printing food comes across at first as odd and a bit zealous to think humans can out-perform nature, but when you watch Chloé Rutzerveld 3D-Print…
Read MoreUN Official: We Have Only 60 Years of Farming Left Unless We Switch to Regenerative Agriculture
According to a senior UN official, if the current rates of soil degradation continue, all of the world’s topsoil could be gone within 50 years. The Food and Agriculture Organization has reported that unless we adopt new approaches to growing food, such as organic and permaculture principles, the global amount of land suitable for food…
Read MoreWatch this 11-Year-Old Expose Monsanto and the Industrialized Food System (VIDEO)
Children are the future of the world, and as 11-year-old Birke Baehr verbally overthrows Monsanto and the industrialized food system, that future just got a little brighter. Birke Baehr wants us to know how our food is made, where it comes from, and what is in it. Heard around the world, Birke’s speech included his…
Read MoreUrban Farming Guys Transforming Crime-Ridden Missouri City into Sustainable Paradise
In one of the most dangerous places in the US, Lykins neighborhood, Kansas City, where people can’t sell their homes because people are too afraid to live there, the Urban Farming Guys have been hard at work building a sustainable, thriving community from the inside out. After researching and writing articles on Urban Agriculture, we…
Read MoreIncredible Food Forest has Over 150 Types of Fruits and Vegetables on 1/4 Acre of Land
Longtime gardener and permaculture educator Dr. Bob Randall has a created a food forest, just outside his front door, that produces 90% of the food he consumes. In a world where the front and back yards of the majority of homes are being used to grow inedible grass, wasting gas, fertilizer, and the time it…
Read MoreCan Human Urine Replace Chemical Fertilizers?
The Rich Earth Institute in Brattleboro, Vermont, is likely the only organization measuring success in gallons of urine. In 2012, Kim Nace, Rich Earth’s administrative director and partner Abe Noe-Hays collected 600 gallons of urine from friends and neighbors. The next year, the organization brought in about 3,000 gallons from 170 human volunteers. Rebecca Rueter,…
Read More37 Million Bees Found Dead In Ontario, Canada After Planting Large GMO Corn Field
Millions of bees dropped dead after GMO corn was planted few weeks ago in Ontario, Canada. The local bee keeper, Dave Schuit who produces honey in Elmwood lost about 37 million bees which means about 600 hives. “Once the corn started to get planted our bees died by the millions,” Schuit said. While many bee…
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