Farming

Green Edge 3: Small Farmers, Ecofeminism, Vandana Shiva

John Tepper Marlin | Posted 07.24.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, Organic World Congress, Organic Farming, Farming, Modena, Vandana Shiva, Ecofeminist, What Is Slow Food, Slow Food Organization, Food, Green News
John Tepper Marlin

Ecofeminist Vandana Shiva, monoculture with a masculine wish to dominate, is at the Organic World Congress to protest the human and environmental cost of industrial farming practices.

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Subsidies Adding to Food Crisis Woes

Craig and Marc Kielburger | Posted 07.04.2008 | Home

Read More: Farming, Marc Kielburger, Subsidies, Food Crisis, Craig Kielburger, Japan, Home News

Japan is the place to be if you're looking for a real spa treatment. From daily massages and relaxing music to a diet of imported food and cold beer,...

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Big Private Investors Pouring Billions Into Farming

New York Times | DIANA B. HENRIQUES | Posted 06.04.2008 | Business

Read More: Farming, Food, Food Investors, Business News

Huge investment funds have already poured hundreds of billions of dollars into booming financial markets for commodities like wheat, corn and soybeans...

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Turkey Hollow Almanac: Summer Memories

David Mixner | Posted 06.02.2008 | Living

Read More: David Mixner's Weekly View of Country Life in Turkey Hollow, Turkey Hollow, New Jersey, Summer Nights, Buzzard Bait, Farming, Farm, Nature, Winter Storm, Porch, Family Farms, Local Farmers, Living News
David Mixner

As the first day of June arrives, the general consensus here in Turkey Hollow, is that May was one of the coldest in quite some time. So it is with arms open to the newly clear sunny sky that I welcome summer.

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Food, Fuel and Farming: the Sky's the Limit

Jacqueline Leo | Posted 05.29.2008 | Living

Read More: Green, Food, Farming, Urban Agriculture, Food Crisis, Carbon Footprint, Living News
Jacqueline Leo

Think of agriculture on the 34th floor of a big city skyscraper: the environment benefits, there's the "buy local" idea... the Flatiron building could be a farm stand on the corner of 22nd and Broadway.

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'The Harvest of Shame'

Sen. Bernie Sanders | Posted 04.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Corporate, Senate, Labor, Slavery, Fast Food, Farming, Harvest of Shame, Florida Tomato Growers Exchange, Farm Labor, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Immokalee Florida, Politics News
Sen. Bernie Sanders

The time is now that large corporations like Burger King and growers that profit from the near-slavery like conditions in the tomato fields of Florida begin to pay a price in the marketplace.

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From Vacant Lots to Verdant Plots: The Leaders Who'll Feed Us

Kerry Trueman | Posted 03.20.2008 | Living

Read More: Brooklyn Rescue Mission, Community Building, Bed-Stuy Farm, Alice Waters, Abu Talib, Farming, Prince Charles, Agriculture, Agribusiness, Duchy Originals, East New York Farms, Living News
Kerry Trueman

While famous foodies like Alice Waters, Jamie Oliver, and Michael Pollan lead the War on Terrible Food, there's an army of unsung heroes who make up the muckboots on the ground, if you will.

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The Greenhorns: A New Breed Of American Idol?

Kerry Trueman | Posted 03.10.2008 | Living

Read More: Organic Farming, Farming, Severine Von Tcharner Fleming, The Greenhorns, Farmers, Agribiz, Farms, Agriculture, Agribusiness, Documentaries, Living News
Kerry Trueman

With dwindling resources, climate change, and the triple threats of peak oil, peak soil, and peak water nipping at our heedless heels, industrial agriculture is becoming a "luxury" we can't afford.

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How Oil Finds its Way Into Your Starbucks Latte, and Other Good News

Carla Wise | Posted 01.17.2008 | Living

Read More: Coffee, Agriculture, Farming, Oil, Sustainable Food, Starbucks, Living News
Carla Wise

Starbucks' plight illustrates how soaring oil prices are beginning to affect our food system in all kinds of fascinating ways. I see this as a possible path to our salvation.

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Giving Afghans an Alternative

Polly McTaggart | Posted 12.06.2007 | Living

Read More: Microloans, Lack of Progress in Afghanistan, The Places in Between, Farming, Charity Organizations, Middle East Bombing, Greg Mortensen, Muslim Charity, Charity, Afghanistan, Afghan War, 9/11, Donating to Charity, Global Partnership for Afghanistan, Western Democracy, Afghanistan War, Rory Stewart, Robert Gates, Taliban Opium, Three Cups of Tea, Soviets Afghanistan, Micro-Finance, Make a Difference, Afghan Farmers, Afghan Produce, Afghan Taliban, Holiday Season, Holiday Gifts, Gift Giving, Gpfa, Living News
Polly McTaggart

After the Soviets' scorched earth practices deforested the country, the bombings following 9/11 and years of severe drought and strict Taliban rule, Afghans have become some of the poorest people in the world.

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Who Are These People?

Jane Smiley | Posted 12.03.2007 | Politics

Read More: Fertilizer, Starvation, Farming, Hunger, Africa, Famine, Malawi, World Bank, Free Market, Capitalism, Obesity, Politics News
Jane Smiley

The World Bank opposes fertilizer subsidies in order to -- well, it boggles the mind. In order to what? Get rid of the population? Degrade the soil beyond repair? I cannot think of any other reasons.

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How Reforming the Farm Bill Could Improve the Health of America's Poor

Mladen Golubić | Posted 10.30.2007 | Politics

Read More: Vegetables, Farm Bill, America's Poor, Health, Congress, Reform the Farm Bill, Food Subsidies, Cancer, Farming, Frank Lautenberg, Democrats, Fruit, Richard Luger, Politics News
Mladen Golubić

This subsidy system rewards farmers for growing foods that contribute to high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes, and other diet-related diseases I treat every day.

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