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With food shortages predicted due to coronavirus disruption, great time to throw some tomatoes, beans, zucchini in the ground. These are some of the easiest vegetables to grow and what is more prolific than zucchini? Wartime Victory Gardens: “By 1944, nearly 20 million victory gardens produced about 8 million tons of food.” Fight Climate Change …
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“Earlier in the year that I moved, I learned about the Ogallala Aquifer, which feeds all of the farmland of the breadbasket—and Colorado as well,” Holland said. “It’s going to be depleted in 20 years from now.” Daily Beast: BACK TO THE LAND Anarchists’ Unlikely Tool for Fighting Climate Change: Farming the land and each other. …
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“We also ask that Congress stop subsidizing monopolistic, extractive industrial agriculture practices that pollute the environment, produce unhealthy food, and disproportionately devastate rural communities and economies,” reads the letter.“ WATCH: Coalition of 10,000 Farmers and Ranchers Call On Congress to Pass Green New Deal | Common Dreams News “With a Green New Deal, we have …
“Sustainable” has been coopted to greenwash bad practices. “Regenerative farming” : no chemicals, biodiversity, feeding and protecting soil (carbon farming). Green America website Fight Climate Change in Your Own Garden By Deonna Anderson, YES! Magazine 13 November 18 Your backyard could be the next front in the war against global warming. uring World War I, …
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As the article states, 50{5fc40a96f14c4a6aa4c2a32569b0a57dcc67c0b31eb04c341474283f11b6cdd2} of all greenhouse gases are directly attributable to big ag. We need food security in the form of local, small farmers with diversity and non chemical approaches. Support your local farmer! In Sonoma County we IMPORT 96{5fc40a96f14c4a6aa4c2a32569b0a57dcc67c0b31eb04c341474283f11b6cdd2} of our food and they call us an agriculturally rich county? Published on Thursday, December 24, 2015 …
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