farming

New company in SF will grow your vegetables for you in your own backyard. If you have extra space you can get a discount for allowing them to grow excess to sell to other urbanites.

This week let ’s consider the question, “Are offsets inspirational?” Here we examine offsets from the 'innovation' side, and highlight the potential for offset opportunities to motivate the development and widespread adoption of new and cleaner technologies.

Bob Dinneen, President and CEO, Renewable Fuels Assocation, is interviewed about criticisms that biofuels, such as ethanol, are driving up world food prices. He also addresses industry efforts to shift to cellulosic ethanol and to create a wider US ethanol fueling infrastructure.

I know, I know, its an old watered down topic but I gotta talk about it because there is some interesting and unusual ideas presented in this article. Smartly titled as Inconvenient Truths, the article presents Wired’s take on the climate crisis.

Green is in for just about every industry. It's particularly popular for the food industry, including Central Pennsylvania's Amish and other organic, all-natural food producing farmers.Demand is up, and rising costs in the traditional farming industry aren't making a difference, so prices are good, too, said Casey Spacht, manager of Lancaster Farm Fresh. The cooperative represents certified organic farmers whose agricultural commodities are trucked as far as New York.

You know that times are changing when farmers look to manure as a valuable commodity. Pretty soon, manure from a herd may be more profitable than the beef itself. Manufactured fertilizers has tripled in price in the last year, driving farmers to look for alternatives.

Genetically modified crops are shown to lead to less herbicide runoff, but there are tradeoff's.

Oprah exposed some of the horrors inherent in the nature of the puppy mill business. However, she made, what we consider to be, a blunder when she defended the breeders by saying that they thought of these dogs as livestock. The implication is that livestock can be abysmally treated by their owners. Sign the petition and pass it along to everyone.

Higher grocery bills could be the result of less corn planted by farmers.

Utility-scale photovoltaic solar farms that will directly feed power into a country’s electrical grid. The installations will range from fewer than 2 MW to up to 50 MW, while a single farm could cover hundreds and hundreds of acres of course, the United States won't be benefitting from this anytime soon.

Today, March 20, is the first day of spring. And it's also National Ag Day!

This is my website, a weblog/journal concerning my family and I going off the grid. I want to share all the information I can with my fellow environmentalists. I update as regularly as possible, and hope that you'll join me.

The largest beef recall in US history was made today by the USDA in response to graphic video footage of rampant animal abuse at a California-based slaughter house. Most of the meat went to schools across the country. (Video included)

A non-profit in South Florida is turning the concept of food recycling into something huge. Farm Share collects culled fruits and veggies and distributes them to the hungry...at a rate of 15-20 million pounds per year.

President Bush promised to expand American biofuel production but the result seems to be causing more harmthan good. Some believe that corn is a poor source for energy - growing it and other staples as fuel has caused food pricesworldwide to explode, even as the scarcity of flex-fuel vehicles means no significant increase in U.S. biofuel use. Now the U.N.is worried about rising food costs, while environmentalists see entire regions torn up to grow fuel crops. The great ethanol boomof 2007 goes bust on Global Pulse.