A family in Pasadena, California is making a living from selling produce grown in their yard to neighbors and restaurants. They grow 6,000 pounds of produce on 1/10th of an acre of cultivated land per year.
It is no surprise that on Charles Ponzi day, the update to food stamp usage indicates that in December those receiving an average of $134 per month has just hit 44.1 million people.
Here at PopSci we often write about emerging technologies like 3-D printing, perhaps almost as often as we write about space launches and rocket ships. And every now and then the use of high-tech gadgetry in the kitchen gives us reason to write about
During fiscal 2010, almost 800,000 Oklahomans received food stamps - a record-breaking year. DHS distributed $865 million in food benefits, a 46 percent increase over the previous year and double the amount distributed five years ago.
There are most likely GMOs in our organic foods because contamination is widespread throughout the agricultural industry, and the USDA's National Organics Program is designed so that GMOs can enter Certified Organics through accidental contamination.
Charming fellow that he is, his fecklessness in the face of disintegrating oil markets will go down in history as something like Nero's musical solo while Rome burned down.
While commercially made self watering containers such as the Earthbox® are available, it’s possible to build your own with these detailed instructions.
During a disaster it would be called looting. What would it be called if it happened due simply to economic desperation and a family with hungry mouths to feed?
Looting can occur during a mass population dislocation caused by a natural disaster su
FEMA is apparently trying to stockpile hundreds of millions of MRE's (meals ready to eat)
In light of the Saudi student arrested in Texas on charges of plotting terrorist attacks throughout the United States.
In light of global food prices ris
A new self-replicating, micro-fungal virus-size organism could be causing spontaneous abortions in livestock, sudden death syndrome in Monsanto’s Roundup Ready soy and wilt in Monsanto’s Roundup Ready corn, a plant pathologist has warned...
Are you connecting the dots yet? This is the elephant in the room that everyone refuses to see: We're not as secure in this country as the government and mainstream media would like us to believe.
The growth of 'cultured' or in-vitro meat may be a vital step towards solving the global food crisis and fighting hunger in the future, Mr Mironov believes.
The ignorance of the vast majority of Americans toward Codex Alimentarius, unfortunately including most natural health advocates, is one reason Codex is not currently a major source of popular concern. However, another more disturbing reason is...
To produce its Round-Up Ready Alfalfa seeds, Monsanto partnered with Forage Genetics
International, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Land O’Lakes dairy co-op. Land O’Lakes stands to make a fortune from polluting our food supply with GMOs.
They are going to force even more debt on the governments of emerging markets, and cause them to buy questionable agricultural equipment from the global elite through this Global Agriculture and Food Security Program. (Run by the World Bank)
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I completed my morning perusal of “things that really matter but most of the American public are too distracted by the “Unexpected numbers” out of the MainStream Media (MSM) to give a flying l
When it comes to basic survival there are only but a few things that are truly critical and important to achieving that goal. Everyone should already be aware and know about things like air to breathe and water to drink.
National Public Radio’s “This American Life” has uncovered something that may as well have been a state secret: a photo of the original recipe for Coca-Cola. True to legend, the original recipe called for cocaine.
global food prices have jumped 29% in the past year, and are just 3% below the all-time peak hit in 2008. ...the rising prices have hit people hardest in the developing world because they spend as much as half their income on food.
Do you want to make a real difference in the fight against GMO alfalfa? Then please download this poster and share it. It's time to take this to the streets.
With Egypt dominating the news, were you aware that a severe price spike in produce for the United States is very likely?
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