On AlterNet: sustainable farming

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "sustainable farming"

Manure Renaissance? Why a Fertilizer Crisis May (Thankfully) Make Farmers Ditch the Chemicals for Old-Fashioned Poop

Gene Logsdon, Chelsea Green Publishing. December 17, 2010.

People talk about Peak Oil, but we're also at Peak Fertilizer. Without plenty of some kind of fertilizer, there will not be enough food to go around.

Holy Shit: The Secret Behind Creating Truly Sustainable Food

Makenna Goodman, AlterNet. December 2, 2010.

If you're into food, you've got to embrace manure. Like it or not, the bowel movement after all, is the foundation upon which the sustainable food movement stands.

Why an Anti-Locavore Rant in the New York Times Is Just Plain Wrong

Kerry Trueman, AlterNet. August 22, 2010.

Stephen Budiansky, self-proclaimed "liberal curmudgeon," needs to be taken out to the foodshed and pummeled with his own lousy logic.

How We Can Free Ourselves from a Fossil-Fuel-Soaked Diet

Rebekah and Stephen Hren, Chelsea Green Publishing. June 11, 2009.

By gradually relocalizing our food production we can return to an agricultural system that is much less energy intensive.

Why Our Food System May Suffer the Same Fate as Our Financial System

Lisa M. Hamilton, AlterNet. June 11, 2009.

By consolidating, centralizing and homogenizing our food system, we've put all our proverbial eggs in one basket -- and that's a big risk.