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Sustainability: The Transformation of John Rogers’ Land

Adina — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 15:01:44 +0000

I met John Rogers at Susana Lein’s Permaculture class at Heathcote Botanical Gardens in February 2011. He was already acquainted with Susana from having attended permaculture conferences with her. We were invited to visit his garden in Melbourne Florida and several other small farms and gardens nearby. John was in the process of transforming his Continue reading →

Sustainability: On Local Food and Community

Adina — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 03:32:03 +0000

One Saturday morning I was tending my booth at The Downtown Ft. Pierce Green Market, and while I was listening to a woman talk about local food it occurred to me that although we all throw the term local food around a whole lot we don’t spend much time exploring what local actually means and Continue reading →

Sustainability: Know Your Farmer Know Your Food

Adina — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 03:38:49 +0000

The USDA has launched a new website dedicated to better connecting consumers to their small and mid sized local farmers and ranchers. Know Your Farmer Know Your Food is the website. I have to hope that this is an earnest push toward sustainability by the USDA. Many of us were pretty unhappy when Tom Vilsack Continue reading →

How No Till Farming Affects Sustainability and The Conventional Farmer

Adina — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 03:27:17 +0000

Soil is not just a lifeless anchor for plants it is a universe of life forms and systems which interact intimately with plants and their systems to form one ecosystem.

Food Inc.

Adina — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 01:28:50 +0000

Check out this trailer for a must see movie coming this summer to a theater near you.

Up You Go!

Adina — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 05:16:53 +0000

In my last post Traditional And Conventional Growing I wrote a little about growing in sustainable ways and The Great Dust Bowl of the 1930′s. I want to write about what happened to the farms and ranches on the great plains states of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and New Mexico in the 1930′s and how that Continue reading →

Traditional and Conventional Growing

Adina — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 05:38:48 +0000

The state of our current economy is unsustainable. Our energy sources and rate of energy consumption are unsustainable. Our food supply system as well as our conventional agricultural practices are also unsustainable. To be sustainable means that we can generate the stuff of our needs without depletion. We are either on course for destroying ourselves, or we are on a course for sustainability. My choice is for sustainability. I can not take giant steps in reducing my personal consumption, but every day I take small steps toward sustainable living practices, and I see my neighbors doing the same.

Food Supply Crisis

Adina — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 03:34:37 +0000

Everything I read in the paper and on the internet, and every trend I see in the grocery store leads me to believe that our food system is about to have an upheaval. I think it will be tough for a while, and we consumers will suffer, but ultimately if we survive the food supply revolution we will wind up with a better way of feeding ourselves.