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Post by steev on Sept 20, 2013 20:09:40 GMT -5
When I saw the first photo, I flashed on the feedlots.
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Post by synergy on Sept 21, 2013 14:47:35 GMT -5
That Marla Spivak talk explained what is happening to our pollinators as clearly as I have ever understood. I posted it to my facebook to share further, thank you so much Mike H
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Post by MikeH on Nov 4, 2013 3:30:06 GMT -5
One wonders what the animators were thinking when they did this. This was done five years before Fantasia. Thanks for the headsup Patrick.
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Post by PatrickW on Nov 4, 2013 13:34:54 GMT -5
Then there's this one that came 6 or 7 years later...
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Post by MikeH on Nov 5, 2013 17:56:52 GMT -5
What should a community do with its unused land? Plant food, of course. With energy and humor, Pam Warhurst tells at the TEDSalon the story of how she and a growing team of volunteers came together to turn plots of unused land into communal vegetable gardens, and to change the narrative of food in their community. Pam Warhurst - How we can eat our landscapes?
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Post by steev on Nov 5, 2013 20:52:46 GMT -5
Excellent; again, common sense. I don't claim that it's common knowledge, but I insist that it's common sense. We, the mass of humanity, have been suckered by agribusiness into believing that we have no place in growing our food, that it can only be done industrially, that there are too many mouths to feed without agribusiness. What unmitigated bullshit!
Granted, it takes time, thought, and work to establish a productive food-shed, but once developed, it can be remarkably productive and labor-efficient. At the very least, labor is not carcinogenic; the same is not true for many industrial-agricultural chemical needs, regardless of whether the risks are "acceptable" to "regulatory agencies".
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Post by MikeH on Dec 9, 2013 19:36:13 GMT -5
This makes Modern Times seem quaint. Both man and beast are slaves to the machine.
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Post by steev on Dec 9, 2013 21:55:33 GMT -5
You want to see slaves to the machine? "Manufactured Landscapes"!
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Post by MikeH on Dec 14, 2013 18:56:11 GMT -5
Ken Taylor of Green Barn Nursery outside Montreal - goo.gl/maps/fL1Ow. From a propagation perspective, a very interesting man.
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Post by coppice on Dec 17, 2013 7:13:28 GMT -5
Most of these videos are blocked.
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Post by MikeH on Feb 14, 2014 19:52:55 GMT -5
As they struggle to compete against the Goliaths that populate today’s global economy, apple orchardists by the thousands are going out of business and thousands more await the dreaded letter from the bank announcing the end of their livelihoods and a uniquely American way of life. But there is an entirely new breed of farmer, practitioners of a new model for farming called sustainable agriculture. They have come to be known as the New American Farmers and they are finding success by going against the grain of conventional agriculture.
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Post by MikeH on Feb 24, 2014 18:25:58 GMT -5
Amado from Itanoni is the "corn guru". His restaurant serves only the most traditional of Mexican foods, showcasing the various organic corns, harvest by local Oaxacan farmers in their purest form. But beyond the taste of history and tradition, Amado brings a poetic truth about the power of this ancient grain.
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Post by richardw on Feb 25, 2014 13:26:33 GMT -5
Thats cool thanks Mike,watching that i was thinking 'imagine having a climate like that where growing corn to maturity was easier",if i had to grow survival crops only ,corn would not be one of them,just too much work battling frosts.
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Post by steev on Feb 25, 2014 22:41:09 GMT -5
Yeah, corn is actually not so easy a crop; sure worked for MesoAmerica, though.
I was struck by the tri-fold bean-tortilla thingy, very interesting idea. Growing several ratty little dry-bean species, any way to use them as dal/re-frieds is welcome.
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Post by MikeH on Mar 10, 2014 13:45:21 GMT -5
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