Geoff Lawton has taught more than 6,000 students in over 30 countries on how to grow food in the most efficient and ecologically friendly way possible through permaculture design science, so he knows as well as anyone what a healthy ecosystem and healthy plants should look like. And as you’ll [...]
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It’s official: The United States has just hit a new record high for amount of organic farmland. In 2015, record highs were recorded for organic farming with a total of 4.4 million acres currently being cultivated, according to data from the USDA. About half of it (55%) was used for [...]
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While it’s been proven time and time again that “conventional” agriculture, the byproduct of the post-World War II era and the chemicals that remained, causes serious harm, most people don’t realize just how bad it’s gotten. Jim Cochran, a strawberry farmer outside of Santa Cruz, California, found [...]
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In the battle of “conventional” agriculture vs. organic, a clear winner is emerging: organic food sales are skyrocketing, and interest in organic farming is rising dramatically, especially among the youth. But while the debate between organic and conventional gets all the headlines, one particular style of farming that may hold [...]
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Even as United States consumers begin demanding more and more organic foods, organic farmers themselves are struggling with the realities of life in a system that seems set up for genetically modified crops to thrive. Subsidies for corn and soybeans are the norm here, and while farmers who wish to [...]
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