Food and Climate

The Small Planet Institute (arisen from the Lappé family) has a website called Take a Bite out of Climate Change about the connection between food production/consumption and climate change. They're really big on organic farming and have a blog and a ton of resources on how one can go about making a change in their food consumption and participating in the alternate food chain.

Cool! Go check it out! Peace.

NYT comments on us Carhartt-wearers

A MUST-READ about our generation's interest in farming, what what!

check out their sweatshirts! burning kumquat patch reenactment!!

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/16/fashion/16farmer.html?

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IRRIGATION!

Irrigation information from IrrigationTutorials.com


From http://www.irrigationtutorials.com/dripguide.htm


Oregon State University - components and some manufacturer spec's

MPR Supply Company (map) - St Louis distributer

Eating locally grows new roots-- StL Post-Dispatch

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/FE96AFD73FCF759F862573F300111539?OpenDocument

Local Food, is it always best?

Check out is article. It says local food is not necessarily better for the environment than food that's traveled thousands of miles. What do you think?

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/08/06/opinion/edmcwilliams.php

Two more resources

American Community Gardening Association:

www.communitygarden.org/index.php

check out learn -> resources-> articles for old school pdfs full of info

Urban Gardening Help:

urbangardeinghelp.com

Good overview and links from there

Agroecology In Action

http://www.agroeco.org/ - a scientific discipline that uses ecological theory to study, design, manage and evaluate agricultural systems that are productive but also resource conserving

Site with online courses and other resources