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Intro to Permaculture 3 – Topsoil

January 7, 2010 “1.9 billion tons of topsoil lost a year in US because of way we do annual agriculture.” This video from Midwest Permaculture is one of eighteen segments from their first webinar of the Foundations of Permaculture Webinar Series. Go to Original Source…

Consumers: Help secure Britain’s food future

Jan. 07, 2010 Defra (UK’s Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) is calling for citizenship to ‘vote with your fork’ to influence how food might be sustainably produced. Food security is a goal for ‘Food 2030′. Go to Original Source…

Backyard Chickens: Tour de Coops

Backyard Chickens: Tour de Coops

There’s a good chance you’ve been around long enough to have heard of a garden tour. Gardening people open their backyards to total strangers – albeit they are garden enthusiasts, which makes it perfectly acceptable – to share what they have created by way of their landscaping talents. Some people visit to get ideas for [...]

Dumpster Diving

It’s not a pretty picture. This gritty reality may force a re-examination of our values and our beliefs about people caught within the throes of poverty. The people profiled in this video appear far from being crazy and helpless. Yet, for different reasons, they choose to obtain at least some of their food out of [...]