By Janine Mendes-Franco On May 20, the world marks the fourth annual World Bee Day via a virtual event hosted by the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization, guided by the theme “Bee engaged—Build Back Better for Bees.” Bees play an important role in pollination,…
By Joanna Miller Growing a successful garden can be hard to achieve depending on where you live. I began gardening in the Chicago suburbs, a wonderful place in which to grow things. The seasons were regular, the rain was abundant, and the soil was fertile. …
By Tyler Durden Global crop and food prices are skyrocketing to multi-year highs, and the culprit could be due to La Niña, a weather pattern characterized by the cooling of the equatorial Pacific and triggers atmospheric shifts that cause droughts in some regions of the world…
By Indiana Lee There’s no question. Our environment is under more pressure than ever before. Recent projections expect the global population to exceed 8 billion by 2025. However, the amount of land used for sustainable farming will remain at current levels. It is perhaps little wonder,…
By Neenah Payne America talks a lot about “Homeland Security” — but ignores the key role food plays in national security. Food is a national security issue in two ways that are not immediately obvious but which now threaten our survival as a nation in…
By Neenah Payne The Controlled Demolition of The American Empire was published in October 2020. It now has over 1,600 reviews with a rating of 4.8 stars. The Amazon description says: “The American Empire is finished and will soon become another cautionary tale, tossed upon…
By Neenah Payne Dr. Zach Bush points out that we are in the Sixth Great Extinction now and human survival depends on the urgent restoration of our soils to provide the nutritious foods we need. However, although Hippocrates said, “Let food be your medicine and…
By Julia Conley The environmental law organization Earthjustice celebrated a “huge victory” for farmworkers and children on Thursday after the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to ban all food uses of a toxic pesticide linked to memory loss and developmental…
By Jessica Corbett A coalition of 80 U.S. agricultural, consumer, environmental, public health, and worker groups sent a letter Thursday to key figures in the Biden administration calling for them to “respect Mexico’s sovereignty and refrain from interfering with its right to enact health-protective policies”—specifically,…
By Neenah Payne The film SELAH: Water From Stone, shows how J. David Bamberger restored 5,500 barren acres in Texas starting in the 1960s by planting native grass. Soon abundant water returned to the area along with fish, birds, deer, and other animals. In fact,…
By Neenah Payne In 2020, Americans faced empty grocery stores shelves for the first time. Curtis Stone, The Urban Farmer, warns about more food shortages and provides tips on how to grow lots of food on small plots. See his book The Urban Farmer. The…
By Jonathan Latham, Ph.D According to a new peer-reviewed paper, “The Myth of a Food Crisis,” corrupt philanthropic and academic sectors in agriculture and development perpetuate the lie that Big Ag is the only way to feed the world. Sustainable, local, organic food grown on…
By The Ice Age Farmer In the latest blow to global food production, Taiwan is diverting water from rice farms to semiconductor factories to keep the iPhones & car chips flowing. “The Taiwanese public appears to have decided that rice farming is less important, both…
By John Bush A planned famine is being implemented worldwide. Along with many other agendas, the intentional destruction of the food supply has been a part of the COVID program we are all being subjected to. In this episode we have Christian Westbrook of http://www.IceAgeFarmer.com…
By The Weston A Price Foundation The FDA is proposing a new rule that would apply to almost everyone involved in the food system, including farms, cottage food operators, co-ops, and restaurants. For foods that FDA lists as “high risk,” the proposed rule imposes extensive…
By Patricia Burke In a distant corner of the solar system – TEACHER/WISE ONE: Did you hear what happened on that planet where they kept putting poison on their food? And then, got the idea for “Precision Agriculture” to monitor farmland from satellites, thinking that…
By Andrea Germanos Despite lower applied amounts of pesticides in U.S. agriculture, their toxicity to non-target species including honeybees more than doubled in a decade, according to a new study. The findings by a team of researchers from Germany’s University Koblenz-Landau were published Friday in…
By Tony Francois For nearly a decade, California farmer Jack LaPant was the target of an investigation and prosecution by the United States Army, who alleged that LaPant violated the Clean Water Act by growing a wheat crop to feed his cattle. Earlier this year,…
By Kirsten Dirksen In the early ’90s, Mark and Jen Shepard bought a degraded corn farm in Viola, Wisconsin, and began to slowly convert it from row-crops back to a native oak savanna that would become one of the most productive perennial farms in the…
By The Ice Age Farmer As USDA confirms frozen meat stocks are plummeting, Dutch farmers are selling “pig rights” for the hefty sum of €700k. But what are “pig rights?” Christian explains how traditional ranching is actually being criminalized as part of the push to…
