Tag: farming
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Urban Farming Improving the Lives of Seniors
Spark Architects has come up with a unique urban farm concept called Homefarm, which is primarily aimed at improving the health and life of seniors at a Singapore retirement home. Homefarm is an aquaponic system, which is easy to manage and therefore ideal for seniors to work on. According to the architects, the greatest potential…
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Agriculture at a Crossroads: How Food Systems Affect Biodiversity
The food system we choose has a direct impact on which type of world we will have. It’s the difference between…
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The Farmer Who Stopped Planting GMO Crops
by s.e. smith You might think this is the time of year when things are calm on the farm, but just the opposite is true. While the fields are quiet and the farming equipment is quietly tucked away in the barn, it’s time to select the crops for next year and determine what’s being planted…
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How Eating Healthy Improves Farming Communities and the Environment
Eating fresher, healthier food would not only be good for our bodies—it would improve the health of our farmland, environment and rural communities. The Healthy Farmland Diet, a new report from Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), uses economic modeling techniques to estimate the effects of changing food consumption on agricultural land use. [caption id="attachment_309989" align="alignnone" width="500"]…
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During Record Drought, Frackers Outcompete Farmers for Water Supplies
“There is a new player for water, which is oil and gas. And certainly they are in a position to pay a whole lot more than we are.”