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FarmPlate: Search Engine for Local Food Systems
Imagine being able to tailor Google to search specifically for sustainable food suppliers or restaurants and socially-minded companies in your area. That’s pretty much what a new online marketplace, FarmPlate.com, does. It features a searchable directory of more than 40,000 business listings across the country, and you can search by category and by location to [...]
Solar Powered GreenHouses
There are many examples of small-scale, creative solutions to producing food and renewable energy side-by-side. For example, this solar double-cropping project in North Carolina, or many of the projects funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Renewable Energy for America Program (REAP). Small-scale energy solutions like these could be even more useful for farmers in [...]
EU Eggs in Free-Range Barns
It’s official: As of January 1, 2012, all eggs in the European Union (EU) are supposed to be hatched by hens kept in free-range barns or “enriched” cages. Happily, the UK has gone the full nine yards and spent £400 million on meeting the new standards. Starting now, cages will have to provide enough space [...]
Pig Manure Creates Farm Energy
The nearly 9,000 hogs at Loyd Ray Farms in Yadkin County, N.C., produce 400,000 gallons of manure every week. Since the waste had too high a nitrogen content to be used as fertilizer, owner Loyd Bryant used to pump that waste into a local lagoon, where it released methane, ammonia and “an unholy stink”. But [...]
Occupy Food System
Thanks to the Occupy Wall Street movement, there’s a deeper understanding about the power that corporations wield over the great majority of us. The disparity between the top 1% and everyone else has been laid bare — there’s no more denying that those at the top get their share at the expense of the 99%. [...]
Farm Factory
United States Farm Factory Facts The number of Farm Factories is decreasing, but the size of existing Farm Factories is increasing. Vegans and vegetarians are fighting against Factory Farms by avoiding meat. Lets take a look at Factory Farm data across the US. •There are 4 factory-farmed chickens for every single American. •U.S. hog factory [...]
How to Live Off Your Own Land
According to a company, One Block Off the Gird,research, a family of four that eats meat, dairy and eggs would need around two acres of land to feed themselves for a year. Ready to try it yourself, but short on land? A 2.9-acre plot of land in South-Central Alaska is available from the State for [...]
Food, Inc.
Food, Inc. looks inside America’s unflattering food controlled industry. In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government’s regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation’s food supply is now controlled by [...]
1st Airport AeroGarden
Aeroponic Gardens allow you to easily cultivate lettuce, cherry tomatoes, herbs, chili peppers and more in an energy-efficient at home indoor environment. Amazon.com sells the “AeroGarden” kit that comes with pre-seeded growth medium, fertilizer, two daylight-spectrum bulbs and the grow pod itself. The plants start to grow within 24 hours, and the plants mature 5 [...]
Drinking Water
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Investing as little as 0.16 percent of the world’s gross domestic product – or $198 billion per year – could give half a billion people regular access to safe drinking water within four years, a U.N. official said Friday. That would halve the number of people who risk serious illness and death [...]
Corn Maize
Corn mazes have been growing in popularity for the past 15 years . Three acres of corn, could get 100 tons of corn that I could sell for around $10,000. However, turning that three acres into a maze, can earn around $50,000. Using the land that way allows small farmers to keep going. The Maize, [...]
Landscaping Water
Choosing the right Irrigation System for your yard: Drip System: A Drip System helps conserve up to 70% more water than sprinklers and keep root zones moist. It can be setup either as a single line servicing a few containers or a high tech whole yard system. This makes sense in a dry states like [...]
Fair Trade & Organic Chocolate
Farmers who support organic and sustainable agriculture are putting fewer chemicals into the earth, protecting rainforests, and supporting sustainability for farmers. How does chocolate tie into farming? Cacao is the bean from the cacao tree, Theobroma Cacao. Cacao is football sized fruit with Cacaco beans inside of it. The beans are harvested, fermented, dried, cleaned, [...]
Buy Local Food
Eating organic food means the producers eliminated harmful synthetics such as pesticides and antibiotic. However, “organic” marketed food can have different meanings. For example, 80% of eggs today are produced from hens where chickens are packed next to each other, like a packed nightclub. Even if pesticides are not used in the overpacked hens, this [...]
Vegetation Roofs
Green roofs mean roofs with green technology such as: cool roof, roof with solar thermal collectors or photovoltaic panels. However, the other growing green roofs concepts is a vegetated roof. It is a roof of a building covered with vegetation over a waterproof membrane and possibly drainage and irrigation layers. Benefits Green Vegetation Roofs provide: [...]
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