Category Archives: Permaculture

Fertilizer Prices Are Soaring – and That’s an Opportunity to Promote More Sustainable Ways of Growing Crops

The fertilizer price crisis may represent an opportunity….but can farmers take advantage of it?

Everything’s Coming Up Roses

Roses are blooming in our garden, providing a welcome distraction from the dire and depressing news cycle.

#NoMowMay: A Step Toward Abolishing the Lawn?

Hopefully, lawns will collapse in The Jackpot, so there’s an upside!

No, Biden Can’t Just Sell Off Seized Russian Yachts and Central Bank Assets to Help Aid Ukraine – International Law and the US Constitution Forbid It

Why it would not be so smart for the US to sell seized Russian assets.

Spring Is Here: 324+ Daffodils (and Counting), 33 Tulips, and One Simnel Cake

Spring has sprung and we’re surrounded by blooming daffodils and tulips, with bluebells soon to follow. Bring on the bees and butterflies!

Ukraine: How the Global Fertilizer Shortage Is Going to Affect Food

A detailed looks at fertilizer production and economics, and the impact the war in Ukraine migtht have on supplies.

Peasants Marginalized by Big Farms

Why big farms are often not better.

UN Report: The World’s Farms Stretched to ‘A Breaking Point’

UN: Climate-stressed, pollution-degraded farms system must adopt sustainable practices to feed an additional 2 billion by 2050.

Mandatory Household Food Waste Recycling Program Starts in California in January

California to launch mandatory residential food waste management program in January.

Extreme Weather and Pandemic Help Drive Global Food Prices to 46-Year High

Crop shortages are a big contritucor to high food prices, and the fundamentals aren’t likely to revert to the old normal.

Plastics Use in Farming Threatens Food Safety and Human Health, FAO Warns

The UN’s FAO publishes first effort report on how the use of plastics in farming erodes the health of soils, threatening food safety and human health.

Book Review: Gabe Brown’s “Dirt to Soil”

“From Dirt to Soil” is well worth a read — and very hopeful, a good thing these days.

The Agribusiness Alliance for a Green Revolution Failed Africa

Big Ag’s push to sell chemicals and other inputs to developing countries has worked out great for them and badly for Africa.

African Faith Leaders to Gates Foundation: Drop ‘African Green Revolution’

“When it comes to the climate, African faith communities are urging the world to think twice before pushing a technical and corporate farming approach.”