Nitrogen for Free
As a kid I remember being impressed by a story of several people adrift in a lifeboat in the open ocean. After a few days all their fresh water ran out and, in what is surely …
Value-Added Management
Something I really enjoy doing is describing how and why agroecological farmland management adds value. Farmland LP sets land-use rotation standards. This benefits specialty producers by creating synergies with other farmers to lower disease risks …
Biodiversity that Pays
The wasps are only 1 or 2 millimetres long fully-grown but they have an ability to paralyse and destroy other insects, including many of the most destructive crop pests, by delivering a zombie-inducing venom in …
Less is More with Antibiotics
Twenty-five years ago, Norwegians were also losing their lives to this bacteria. But Norway’s public health system fought back with an aggressive program that made it the most infection-free country in the world. A key …
USDA Gets Behind Local Food
Yes Magazine recently had a short article on a grant by the USDA to study local food production capacity in the northeast. How much of the food eaten in the northeastern United States could be …