Organic Farming – the Answer to Our Economic Problems?
With growing awareness of the environmental impact that we are all having on the world around us, the problems of how to reduce our carbon […]
What Farming and Food Might Look Like in the Year 2040
Looking at the world as imagined by Human Paragon, it’s difficult to tell if we should be feeling optimistic or anxious about the future. On […]
Preserved Food, Supply Chains, Consumer Habits and Ecology
For centuries, at least in regions where winters are less than temperate, preserving food was less a hobby than a survival skill. Animals for which […]
Coming Soon to a Health Food Store Near You: The “Miracle Tree”
Every so often, some foodstuff or other hits the headlines as being the new “superfood”, which will cure all ills, replace half the veggies […]
Smart Farming Uses Less Water and Produces More During Droughts
Rainfall is never guaranteed, and irrigation water may be expensive or difficult to obtain during dry spells. Particularly if you want to reduce the impact […]
Safely Handling, Storing and Using Manure on Organic Farms
Asking most farmers about plant nutrition is likely to yield an answer revolving around the NPK pantheon. There’s nothing wrong with focusing on the basics, […]
How to Receive and Entertain Paying Guests on a Farm
Plenty of city-dwellers have a sort of atavistic desire to get back to the soil, or a yearning to get their hands dirty on […]
Some Creative Ideas for Keeping Chickens Naturally
We’d all like our free range chickens to truly be as free as birds, but for reasons of space or predators this isn’t always […]