Enormous opportunities are opening up as we move from an unsustainable industrial food production and distribution model, to one that regenerates the very soil and land that supports life. Thankfully and not before time, this topic is receiving increasing amounts of attention. A rising chorus is now coming from UN agencies on how food security, poverty, gender inequality and climate change … [Read more...]
Food Forest NZ – 2013 in review
A great deal has happened in first seven months since Food Forest NZ got established. I look forward to seeing how the growing interest in Food Forests gets expressed in 2014. April - Secured www.foodforest.co.nz April - Met Dean Williamson - a food forest farmer friend from Fielding May - Presented to the Waiheke Local Board and received a positive response May - Gave Pecha Kucha talk … [Read more...]
The future of farming
Mark Bittman from the New York Times, speaks to Wes Jackson from The Land Institute, who predicts that a prairie-like system capable of providing food for humans will be viable within 100 years. Wes makes it clear that the farmers will drive this change to perennials because it makes economic sense. … [Read more...]
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