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Designed to Fail: Why Regulatory Agencies Don’t Work
May 1, 2012 08:05 -
Documenting the Urban Farming Boom
April 30, 2012 07:04 -
Mo Rocca Learns to Cook from our Elders: My Grandmother’s Ravioli
February 19, 2012 08:02 -
Occupy Wall Street: the Conscience of the Nation
December 19, 2011 04:12 -
Willie Nelson’s Long Time Bassist—Dan “Bee” Spears Dies
December 14, 2011 09:12 -
Barn Raising and Community Support Celebrated at Pete’s Greens
December 7, 2011 09:12 -
Building Worker Power for a Just and Sustainable Food System
December 4, 2011 13:12
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Oregon Food Bank: Hunger & Food Insecurity In Epic Proportions (video)
May 25, 2012 04:05 -
Rethinking the Problem of Food Waste (video)
May 24, 2012 04:05 -
Urban Gleaners: Reducing Food Waste to Reduce Hunger (video)
May 23, 2012 04:05 -
How to Make Savory Bread Pudding with Chard and Carrots (video)
May 22, 2012 04:05 -
Homemade Living: Home Dairy Review
May 18, 2012 04:05 -
One Farmers Perspective on the Raw Milk Debate (video)
May 17, 2012 04:05 -
A Small Scale Integrated Livestock Farmer (video)
May 16, 2012 04:05
Posts Tagged ‘sygenta’
Seeds Of Life: Open Pollination (video)
Willamette Valley organic seed breeder, Frank Morton, explains the benefits of open pollination in plant breeding.
Seeds Of Life: Hybrids and the Emergence of Seed Monopolies (video)
For almost all of agriculture existence, farmers were largely the stewards of the land and the crops that they grew.
A Conversation with Claire Hope Cummings-Part 2 (video)
Cummings believes a handful of global agrichemical companies are threatening the livelihoods of farmers.
Seeds of Life: David Vs. Goliath (video)
In an ongoing David versus Goliath legal battle, an Oregon organic seed breeder, has successfully sued the USDA over GMO sugar beets.
Genetic Engineering: Road to Paradise or Paradise Lost?
This video from the political advocacy group Greenpeace, provides an overview of the contentious issues of biotechnology (genetic engineering) as it applies to food production. In some ways, biotechnology is the equivalent of the abortion rights issue of the agriculture world. Both sides of the debate hold entrenched views; those in opposition to its use [...]
A Conversation with Claire Hope Cummings-Part 4 (video)
In Claire Hope Cummings book, Uncertain Peril, she writes about the importance of preserving biodiversity, and native plant species.
A Conversation with Claire Hope Cummings-Part 3
Claire Hope Cummings, in this third segment of interviews hones in upon the essential problems plaguing our agriculture system, she argues is a direct result of the industrialization of agriculture. “Our bodies are not machines”, Cummings reminds us, all the parts of a biological (agriculture) system must remain healthy if we are to produce healthy [...]
A Conversation with Claire Hope Cummings
Permaculture: the use of ecology as the basis for designing integrated systems of food production, housing, appropriate technology, and community development. Permaculture is built upon an ethic of caring for the earth and interacting with the environment in mutually beneficial ways. —National Sustainable Information Service (ATTRA) In this 4-part series, journalist, environmentalist, and author of [...]