10:46 am in agruculture, communities, farming, food, peak oil by TreeHugger
Image credit: Peak Moment TV
From
sharing gardens offering food for all, to
neighbors removing fences and growing food, Peak Moment TV has shown plenty of examples of communities coming together to garden. But how scalable are these initiatives? One Washington activist group decided to see just how many gardens they could start in their county—and the results...
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11:45 am in agriculture, california, farming, food, Food & Health, green wine guide, organic agriculture, photo galleries, recipes, Travel & Nature, wine by TreeHugger
Tags: planet green
12:38 pm in agriculture, california, farming, food, united states by TreeHugger
Image credit: The Perennial Plate
From
young farmers farming with horses to
backyard slaughter in West Oakland, we've seen plenty of ways that idealistic young people try to break into the farming game. Here the Perennial Plate folks pay a visit to three different farms in the Bay Area, and we hear a little bit about how they got started, what it's like to farm, and why they do it. We also get to see some bad-ass unicycli...
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4:31 pm in agriculture, farming, food, north carolina, united states by TreeHugger
Image credit: RAFI USA
Given the
environmental and social impacts of smoking, most TreeHuggers are not huge fans of tobacco. (
Cheap, biodegradable solar grown from tobacco still seems a ways off.) But what to do with all that land that was once used for growing tobacco, and what about the communities who depended on it? An enterprising community of farmers is busy finding alternatives and&mdash...
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