Water storage could help during droughts and floods, and ….
Potato power saved the Irish (for a while)
A lesson from the Irish potato famine is that growing a diversity of crops is crucial
Read: “With Pious Regret”
Chapter 1 of Enough: Why the World’s Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty
The hanging gardens of Brooklyn
Windowfarms are new, innovative hydroponic microfarms that hang in your window
“Mother Nature also had to worry about pests, nutrients, water and other factors that modern farmers have under control.”
—journalist Brendan Keim, on Wired.com
Read: “Waste” by Tristram Stuart
When your mom said, “Don’t leave food on your plate—kids are starving in China”, she was right
Desertification & Container Gardening
blog by retired professor Willem Van Cotthem
The Permaculture Project
Wayne Weisman’s blog
City Farmer News
from Urban Agriculture Notes
Depression is good for you
People cut down on self-destructive behavior during economic hard times, a recent study found
