Farm Fountain: Eco-art Meets Aquaculture
Who doesn’t love a nice water installation? The bubbling and gurgling of things like fountains has an undeniably relaxing effect – and yet, there’s the nagging guilt that comes from running a pump for the sheer purpose of recirculating water. How much power does it draw? Read more..
A Guide to Growing Trees from Grocery Store Fruit
Every time we visit the grocery store we pass by shelves loaded with fruit from trees without considering why a tree bothered to produce that fruit. It is not by chance that many trees bear fruit.
Fruit takes a tremendous amount of energy to produce for an organism trying to survive in a competitive world. Fruit is produced for one simple reason alone, reproduction. The plant’s goal is to produce offspring. Read more..
How long can we last?
..Field wash, in the United States, Latin America, Africa, and many other parts of the world, is the greatest and most menacing of all resource wastes. For details see the U. S. Soil Conservation Service. It removes the basis of civilization and of life itself. It is far worse than burning a city. A burned city can be rebuilt. A field that is washed away is gone for ages. Hence the Old World saying, “After the man the desert.”
Read J. Russel Smiths “Tree Crops: A Permanent Agriculture” first chapter here..
Russell Smith: A Practical Visionary
I first read J. Russell Smith’s Tree Crops perhaps fifteen years ago, and since then I have returned to it many times. Having just paid it another visit, I am pleased to say that I still like it as much as I ever did, and am just as much convinced by it. This book contributed to a fundamental rethinking of agriculture in our century. It is a predecessor of Sir Albert Howard’s The Soil and Health, Wes Jackson’s New Roots for Agriculture, and Masanobu Fukuoka’s The One-Straw Revolution in its perception that in order for humans to know how to use the land of a particular locality, they must look to see how nature uses it. Agriculture, he wrote, must be “adapted … to physical conditions”; he insisted “that farming should fit the land.” Continue..
I have sort of come to the conclusion – inasmuch as I can come to a conclusion this early in the process – that where I garden, building a food forest is about critical mass. Continue..
Abuela Grillo from Denis Chapon on Vimeo.
Trace Element Plays Major Role in Tropical Forest Nitrogen Cycle
Athens, Ga.- A new paper by researchers from the University of Georgia and Princeton University sheds light on the critical part played by a little-studied element, molybdenum, in the nutrient cycles of tropical forests. Understanding the role of molybdenum may help scientists more accurately predict how tropical forests will respond to climate change. Read more..
“We told ya so”
“We told ya so”
PRI Hellas Editor’s note: The following article is republished from naturalnews. com. Any logical explanations on the necessity of such policies are encouraged and welcome. If anyone can proove this article false, we will cheer up actually. So, here it goes:
“We told ya so” just doesn’t quite cut it anymore. As the American sheeple slept, selfishly refusing to take a stand against tyranny, the Obama administration has been plotting what can only be called a total government takeover of America. Read on..
Food Forest Basics
To construct a productive forest system we assemble plants and animals in “guilds” that create a functionally harmonic effect. Harmonic effects are those that, by putting two or more elements together, will result in benefits not produced by themselves alone higher production, reduced pest or predator problems or maintenance of soil fertility. Every plant and animal in a guild has a function. Continue reading..
Scientists warn EPA on Monsanto corn rootworm
Continuing to plant a failing technology only increases the resistance development risk. Read more..
Brothel for the homeless in Vienna
Editors note: We discovered an excellent example of community building, social solidarity and multiple function principle application in Vienna, Austria. It is definitelly worth sharing! Original article can be found here. Enjoy…
Right action….week zero: act one: have friends in Greece? check on them….
Just spoke with an ex-pat brit now living in southern Greece. Things are not going well for anyone there. Local boat builders have had no income for over four months, and as may be expected, the tourism ‘industry’ is basically shut down; again, no income for months. Read the article..