For the last six out of seven global harvests, the world’s farms have failed to yield enough food to feed the world, thanks to industrial, chemical farming and Climate Change. Humanity is on the brink of starvation and only our reserves of food – fast diminishing – have saved us.
Category: Food Security
Seedsavers In Papua New Guinea
Just received this email from Michel Fanton, relayed by his partner, Jude Fanton, both Co-Founders of the Seed Savers Network in Byron Bay. Michel is currently networking in PNG, one of the many international Seed Saver projects: “Even though the rain is falling on the southern highlands the HF email radio is working. All worked…
Vale The ‘Green Revolution’
A busy day in the garden…rain was forecast, so I cut and spread dolomite on George’s Sustainable Lawn, hoping it would wash it in. It didn’t, so I ended up rinsing it in with recycled water. I want it looking OK for this Sunday’s National Sustainable House Day. I knocked up a temporary bamboo screen…
Working With Winners
Who would have thought that Auntie’s long-running, bargain-basement gardening show would outlive and outperform the ‘Burke’s Backyard’ tv show and thrive as the ‘Sydney in Bloom’ expo folded? Drought has so far claimed over 11,000 jobs in horticulture in NSW alone. A water state of emergency has been declared in SE Qld. Petrol prices and…
Poisoned Food And Poisoned Soil
Found this at ABC News Online Last Update: Tuesday, August 1, 2006. 8:00am (AEST). Police investigate crop contamination Police have set up a major incident room in Bowen in north Queensland to investigate the poisoning of fruit and vegetable crops worth up to $1 million. Investigators believe chemicals used by a contractor were somehow contaminated,…
Jerry Coleby-Williams 