The fashion industry is linked to the environmental devastation in the Central Asian inland sea – once the world’s fourth largest lake, the Aral sea ‘completely dried’ in August The Guardian by Tansy Hoskins The Aral Sea: The raised land to the left used to be the shore Image via Wikimedia Commons What do the… Read more »
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Breeding Battle Threatens Key Source Of California Strawberries
NPR – The Salt by Dan Charles Credit: Walter J. Pilsak, Waldsassen In California, a legal skirmish has erupted over strawberries — or rather, over strawberry breeding. To be absolutely precise, the battle is about strawberry breeding at the University of California, Davis. This is more important than it might sound. More than half of… Read more »
‘Made In Rural America’ But Not For Americans
Honey Colony by Brett Barth, Buzzworthy Blogs Credit: NRCS The steady creep of prices at your grocery checkout might have you wondering about frosts and droughts and the many other challenges confronting agribusiness. That’s kind of you, really, but stop. Truth be told, these are roaring times in the U.S. Farming industry. According to a recent report… Read more »
Organic Dairy Farmers Hit by California Drought
Organic farmers in California face unique issues in this devastating drought, leading some to bow out … or sell cows for hamburger meat. Food & Environment Reporting Network By Kristina Johnson Credit: USDA NRCS San Joaquin Valley organic dairy farmer Tony Azevedo’s business has dried up—literally. Because of the record-breaking California drought, he has nothing… Read more »
FDA Restricts Antibiotics Use for Livestock
The New York Times By Sabrina Tavernise WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday put in place a major new policy to phase out the indiscriminate use of antibiotics in cows, pigs and chickens raised for meat, a practice that experts say has endangered human health by fueling the growing epidemic of antibiotic… Read more »
The Year the Monarch Didn’t Appear
New York Times Sunday Review By Jim Robbins ON the first of November, when Mexicans celebrate a holiday called the Day of the Dead, some also celebrate the millions of monarch butterflies that, without fail, fly to the mountainous fir forests of central Mexico on that day. They are believed to be souls of the… Read more »
Protection Of Pollinators Or Smoke And Mirrors?
By Maryam Henein, HoneyColony Original “In an ongoing effort to protect bees and other pollinators”, the Environmental Protection Agency recently developed a new pesticide label that will (supposedly) prohibit use of some pesticide products where bees are present. Specifically, the new label applies to ‘systemic pesticides known as neonicotinoids, such as imidacloprid, dinotefuran, clothianidin and thiamethoxam…. Read more »
Why Picking Your Berries For $8,000 A Year Hurts A Lot
NPR by Eliza Barclay As the supply chain that delivers our food to us gets longer and more complicated, many consumers want to understand — and control — where their food comes from. But even if we meet farmers at the farmers market , urban consumers are still largely divorced from the people who grow,… Read more »
Kew’s Growth Strategy: Hybrid Crops Without the Genetic Modification
Plan to crossbreed crops with their wild cousins to help boost resistance to climate change The Independent By Tom Bawden British researchers are leading an unprecedented global project to track down and store wild relatives of common crops – to help breed hybrids with higher yields that could be resistant to the effects of climate… Read more »
Nevada County Organic Farmer Saves Heirloom Trees for Food and History
The Union (CA) By Laura Brown It was 1871 when a “testy little Frenchman” named Felix Gillet first opened his Barren Hill Nursery to the public on 16 acres of logged property at the top of Nevada Street. During Gillet’s lifetime, he imported and bred thousands of varieties of old world fruit and nuts from… Read more »
