Posts Tagged ‘agriculture’
UN 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 MoreGotham Greens: America’s First Commercial Rooftop Greenhouse Farm On Whole Foods Store
A neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, is now benefiting from a revolutionary partnership in urban agriculture — a 20,000-square-foot rooftop greenhouse built on a Whole Foods supermarket. The partnering farmers are from a company called Gotham Greens, and together they are growing high-quality, pesticide-free produce year-round for their customers. Gotham Greens says the new facility…
Read MoreGreen Bronx Machine Transforms Kids Lives with Urban Agriculture
Amidst New York City’s South Bronx—a place traditionally rife with gang activity, poverty and crime— a thriving population of young urban farmers are greening and beautifying neighborhoods, growing healthy food and providing it to people in need. This is the Green Bronx Machine—led by Stephen Ritz, one very inspiring man. “We are growing ourselves into…
Read MoreBiochar Significantly Increases Plant Health and Restores Environment
The future of agriculture is to produce the highest quality, most health-giving foods possible, and in a way that benefits both the earth and its people. Through the practice of modern agriculture – and its use of chemical fertilizers, pesticides, as well as the production of annual grains as staple foods – we have turned…
Read MoreHumanure – Goodbye, Toilets. Hello, Extreme Composting!
For more than a decade, 57-year-old roofer and writer Joseph Jenkins has been advocating that we flush our toilets down the drain and put a bucket in the bathroom instead. When a bucket in one of his five bathrooms is full, he empties it in the compost pile in his backyard in rural Pennsylvania. Eventually…
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