Purifying Water with Nano-particles

10-06-2008 • Technology Review

A company says 3-D nanoparticles boost the efficiency of water desalination and water purification.

FRONT YARD GARDENS

10-04-2008 • urbanhomestead.org

Liberated Yard (since 1990): Growing food not grass. Providing not only beauty but food, medicine and income.

Grass Fed Cattle "U.S. Wellness Meats"

08-20-2008 • GrassLandBeef.com

Converting sunshine and rainfall into high quality protein. (FYI)

A tomato by any other name? Experts set food rules

7-4-2008 • Reuters

[Government assured pretty food.] Classifying tomatoes based on their size, shape, color, firmness, and defects, and accordant rules on tomato labeling, will facilitate trade and eventually make it easier for regulators to impose safety standards.

Picking tips for Vegetables

06-23-2008 • www.pickyourown.org

Updated daily information on harvesting, canning and canning supplies.

Canadian Farmer Victorious over Monsanto - Sets Legal Precedent

05-22-2008 • Percy Schmeiser

Monsanto has agreed to pay all the clean-up costs of the Roundup Ready canola that contaminated Schmeiser’s fields. Also part of the agreement was that there was no gag-order on the settlement and that Monsanto could be sued again if further contamin

Build a Homemade Hydroponics Garden Cheaply and Easily (Video)

05-15-2008 • The Hydroponic Garden Book

Live in an apartment, or just want to grow herbs and veggies in a limited indoor space? Here are detailed instructions to make your own portable hydroponics system for around $50.00.

Backyard Composting (Video)

05-13-2008 • Kitchen Gardeners

Compost is one of nature’s best fertilizers, and you can use it instead of the commercial stuff. Best of all, you can make it without spending a cent.

How to Build Raised Garden Beds

05-11-2008 • Gardenfork

Have a small area that you want to grow your own food in? Learn how to build raised garden beds to make the most of your limited space.

An Experiment in Backyard Sustainability

05-07-2008 • Peak Moment

Think you can't grow in a small space? Think again. A must-see video for those interested in making it through the coming economic collapse and food shortage.

Global warming rage lets global hunger grow

04-19-2008 • Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

We drive, they starve. . .The UN says it takes 232kg of corn to fill a 50-litre car tank with ethanol. That is enough to feed a child for a year. Last week, the UN predicted "massacres" unless the biofuel policy is halted.

Load Up the Pantry

4-24-2008 • Wall Street Journal

I don't want to alarm anybody, but maybe it's time for Americans to start stockpiling food. No, this is not a drill. You've seen the TV footage of food riots in parts of the developing world. Yes, they're a long way away from th

Era of cheap food ends as prices surge

4-23-2008 • London Times

Families have been warned that the prices of basic foods will rise steeply again because of acute shortages in commodity markets. Experts said prices of rice, wheat and vegetable oil would rise further, with high prices and shortages here to stay,

Bay Area Shoppers Asked To Limit Rice Purchases

4-23-2008 • NBC TV11

At least one Bay Area store is asking customers to hold back on their rice purchases. Costco has posted signs asking customers to follow their regular rice-buying habits. The rice price increase is a result of a domino effect, NBC11's Noelle Wa

Americans hoard food as industry seeks regs

4-23-2008 • Washington Times

Farmers and food executives appealed fruitlessly to federal officials for regulatory steps to limit speculative buying that drives food prices higher. Some Americans are stocking up on staples such as rice, flour and oil in anticipation of high price

Wal-Mart's Sam's Club limiting rice purchases

4-23-2008 • Reuters

Wal-Mart's Sam's Club warehouse division said it is limiting sales of Jasmine, Basmati and long grain white rice "due to recent supply and demand trends." The news came as rice prices surged, with U.S. rice futures hitting an all-ti

Climate change 'may put world at war'

4-23-2008 • Daily Telegraph

Climate change could cause global conflicts as large as the two world wars but lasting for centuries unless the problem is controlled, a leading defense think tank has warned. [give us money]

Food Shortages Or Globalist Depopulation Agenda?<br>Kurt Nimmo

4-23-2008 • Infowars

In addition to "climate change," Mohan blames the failures of capitalism — described as "supply-side responses" to market forces — and the "absence of technological breakthroughs in terms of higher yields from new varieties o

Animal activists offer million dollars for test-tube meat

4-21-2008 • AFP

Steaks out of a test-tube? The animal rights group PETA is putting up a million dollar reward for anyone who by 2012 can grow in-vitro meat that looks and tastes like the real thing.

America pays huge price to run cars on corn - Just to buy a few votes

12-19-2007 • THE NEWS TRIBUNE

It takes deluges of water, mountains of fertilizer and vast greenhouse gas emissions to grow corn crops on the scale they're now being grown in America. All at a net loss of energy and public money. Not to mention a doting Congress.

Biofuels and World Demand Lead to Food Riots and Hunger within 2 years

12-05-07 • The Guardian UK

The growing appetite of China and other fast-developing nations has combined with the expansion of biofuel programs in the United States and Europe to transform the global food situation.

Lab leak fears over Britain's foot and mouth outbreak

8-5-2007 • AFP

An urgent probe into Britain's foot and mouth outbreak homed in on an animal disease research laboratory Sunday amid fears of a virus leak, as other countries watched the potential crisis closely.

Time for Taxpayers to Sing the Blues

05-11-2007 • CATO Institute

Blue corn isn’t subsidized like white and yellow corn, and that’s just not right. The growers feel hurt and victimized and, you know, invisibilized. They want to be an official government-recognized crop. And, you know, get the loans and subsidies. L

Europe's move to biofuels threatens rainforest

04-26-2007 • FT.com via msnbc.com

(Unintended govt consequences. You can't fool Mother Nature or the Free Market) "In a bid to solve one problem, we risk creating another, and making things worse. Rainforest destruction is a major contributory factor in global warming and

Michigan farm quarantined after owner refuses NAIS directive

03-03-2007 • thecompletepatient.com

It’s been only a few hours since the National Animal Identification System (NAIS) made its voluntary-to-required debut in Michigan, and already a farmer is challenging its underpinnings. The Michigan Department of Agriculture (MDA) quickly responded

Mystery ailment strikes honeybees

2-12-2007 • AP

A mysterious illness is killing tens of thousands of honeybee colonies across the country, threatening honey production, the livelihood of beekeepers and possibly crops that need bees for pollination.

N. Dakota man aims to be 1st hemp farmer

1-16-2007 • AP

Monson turned in an application to the state Agriculture Department to become the nation's first licensed industrial hemp farmer. Monson provided fingerprints, which will be used for a background check to prove he is not a criminal.

Superweed Spreading Among Genetically Engineered Cotton Fields in the U.S.

01-02-2006 • www.organicconsumers.org

"It is potentially the worse threat since the boll weevil," said Alan York, weed scientist at North Carolina State University in Raleigh