By Mayukh Saha The Environmental Working Group had recently commissioned an independent laboratory test. The test was conducted to detect the presence of the notorious weedkiller in hummus. The test results found glyphosate in over 80% of the non-organic hummus and other chickpea samples. Apart…
By Ice Age Farmer The Biden admin’s executive actions in the last 48 hours are attacking farms and implementing the technocratic takeover of food, accelerating a global collapse in food production by paying farmers NOT to grow food, cutting their financial support, tasking Tom Vilsack’s…
By Ice Age Farmer Christian Westbrook of the Ice Age Farmer broadcast speaks at The Greater Reset Activation (http://theGreaterReset.org​) on the transition to an emergent, regenerative, decentralized food system to feed and empower our families and communities into the future. https://IceAgeFarmer.com​ FULL SHOW NOTES: SUBSCRIBE…
By Matt Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable, and any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible. Even if all…
By Tyler Durden An angry mob of farmers, some on tractors and others marching in rank and file, are expected to enter India’s capital of New Delhi to protest unfair farming legislation passed several months ago. New Delhi Police will allow more than 12,000 farmers on tractors…
Large-scale land acquisitions by foreign investors, intended to improve global food security, had little to no benefit, increasing crop production in some areas while simultaneously threatening local food security in others, according to researchers who studied their effects. The study, published in the Proceedings of…
By Ice Age Farmer Bill Gates is the biggest owner of US farmland, having amassed 240,000 acres. His influence in the world food systems is astounding. What can we expect he will do with this inconceivable amount of control over the world’s food supply? Christian…
Kenny Stancil, Children’s Health Defense A growing number of people around the world are calling for the public ownership of seeds, which they say is essential for a more democratic and ecologically sound food system. The coronavirus-driven spike in empty supermarket shelves and the continued…
Soil erosion is a major challenge in agricultural production. It affects soil quality and carries nutrient sediments that pollute waterways. While soil erosion is a naturally occurring process, agricultural activities such as conventional tilling exacerbate it. Farmers implementing no-till practices can significantly reduce soil erosion…
By Natural Blaze Take this quick tour of Jared’s Real Food permaculture market farm located on only 2 1/2 acres. It’s another amazing example of just how much can be produced (and be profitable) with the right systems and techniques that will mimic nature to…
By Elias Marat Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has rung in the New Year by decreeing an end to the use of glyphosate – best known as the active ingredient in Monsanto’s “Roundup” pesticides – and also ordering the phase-out out of genetically modified…
By Phillip Schneider “GMO”. We’ve all heard the acronym somewhere, but what exactly does it mean? It stands for “Genetically Modified Organism” and has been a major source of controversy over the past two decades. This article discusses what a GMO is, the process of…
By National Geographic Instead of neat rows of monoculture, forest gardens combine fruit and nut trees, shrubs, herbs, vines and perennial vegetables together in one seemingly wild setting. This type of agroforestry mimics natural ecosystems and uses the space available in a sustainable way. UK-based…
By Anthony McLennan Hoping to fight malnutrition, agricultural scientist Bruce French has spent an incredible five decades cataloging edible plants across the world. The Australian’s quest began over 50 years ago when he was teaching agriculture in Papua New Guinea. His students appeared bored learning…
By Lucille Leclair Chen Yun’s pigs stopped eating, then developed a fever. Within a week, all 10,000 on his farm in Jiangxi, in southeast China, had died of African swine fever (ASF). In 2018-19 the virus affected every province and led to the slaughter of…
Technocrats are pursuing a foolproof way to develop “precision agriculture’ with 5G technology that will implement an Internet of Things appropriate for managing our entire food/supply chain. Aside from the harmful effects of EMF generated from 5G, technological control over food supplies could become an…
By Chris Smaje The palm civet is a small omnivorous mammal of Indonesia and other parts of tropical Asia. Emerging from its forest home onto coffee plantations, it’s able to sense the finest coffee fruits of perfect ripeness. Eating them, it digests the pulp and…
Millions of people plant pollinator gardens in an effort to provide monarch butterflies with food along their annual migration route from overwintering sites in the highland forests of central Mexico to summer breeding grounds in the United States and southern Canada. For the first time,…
Phosphorus is essential in agriculture to maintain higher production levels, where it is applied as a fertilizer. Some of the world regions are experiencing high population growth rates, which means more phosphorus will be needed to produce an increasing amount of food needed in the…
By John Vibes Hollywood favorite Christopher Walken will be starring in a new film called Percy which tells the true story of an independent canola farmer from Canada named Percy Schmeiser, who fought a lengthy legal battle against the bio-agriculture giant Monsanto. In 1996, Canada…
