The priority of industrial farming is to grow and harvest a lot of food, fast. In a way, it’s the fast food version of farming.
Category Archives: Sustainability
Food Forests: The finest permaculture
Even though permaculture is a term used nowadays as a catch-all for ecologically sustainable gardening and farming practices, it’s rarely understood as an economically viable approach to growing food.
Humans are making it hard for bees to be
Author: Tasty Source – Photographer: Mike Lewinski – Date: August 2020 Billions of humans (and even more animals) would die if it weren’t for bees pollinating most of the earth’s plants. Their lives help maintain the biodiversity of the natural world. And sadly, their population has been in decline for awhile now and the momentum …
The synchronization of plants and people
Author: Tasty Source – Photographer: Robert Fischetto – Date: August 2020 A plant’s outbreath of oxygen gives us our inbreath, and our outbreath of carbon dioxide gives plants their inbreath. We have a symbiotic relationship with plants and we cannot survive without them. And yet, we bite the plants that feed us by living wasteful …