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Energy Efficiency v. Renewables: Where Should We Start
30 July 2012 11:02 PM | No Comments
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Garbage in the Ocean
20 July 2012 7:09 PM | No CommentsEver heard of Garbage Island, also known as the Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch? This beautiful infographic explains the impact of our waste on oceans across the globe.
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Farmhand Diaries: An Early End to a Promising Harvest
09 July 2012 10:57 PM | 1 Comment
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Goodbye Bees, Goodbye Humanity
06 July 2012 8:27 PM | 1 Comment
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Sustainable Food Apps: Using Smartphones to Make Green Choices
29 June 2012 5:59 PM | 1 Comment
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Goodbye Bees, Goodbye Humanity
Posted on July 6, 2012 | 1 CommentHoneybees and sustainability: not necessarily two words you may have expected to see in the same sentence, but they do actually belong! This fascinating insect known as the honeybee is... -
Sustainable Dairy: Moo-ving Forward
Posted on June 5, 2012 | 1 CommentSome of the greenest dairy farms exist in California. Could this be why our cows are so happy? Perhaps. But throughout the nation, dairy is one of the greenest sectors... -
The Good, The Clean, and the Dirty
Posted on May 30, 2012 | 1 CommentPesticides: we’ve all probably heard the term before, but what exactly does it mean? According to the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences – National Institutes of Health, “A pesticide... -
Finding Solutions in an Era of Depletion and Economic Hardship
Posted on January 24, 2012 | No CommentsIn difficult economic times such as these I always look for the innovators. Too often, I’ve noticed, stuck in our familiar, old and retiring ways of doing things, it’s easy... -
Farmhand Diaries: Water Woes
Posted on November 15, 2011 | No CommentsBy Stacey Warde. Three days of dry heat, wind and no water. Rain is forecast for next week but won’t arrive quickly enough to matter. I need water now. Again,... -
Farmhand Diaries: To Spray, or Not to Spray
Posted on October 26, 2011 | No CommentsBy Stacey Warde. For three years, I’ve managed to control the weeds on our two-acre blueberry enclosure mostly by hand, without the use of herbicides. I’ve learned that a shovel,... -
Farmhand Diaries: My ‘little hobby’
Posted on September 14, 2011 | No CommentsBy Staff Writer Stacey Warde. It’s been a long haul since we began the harvest of what one customer called my “little hobby.” Two acres of blueberries really isn’t a... -
Farmhand Diaries: Ants in the Bag
Posted on March 24, 2011 | No CommentsBy Staff Writer Stacey Warde I’ve been waging a battle against ants for weeks. These are not your typical household ants that invade the kitchen pantry, or crawl up the... -
Organic or Biodynamic: “Tasteful” Solutions to Eco-Friendly Viticulture
Posted on January 14, 2011 | No CommentsBy Staff Writer Brendan Pringle. For the last century, two movements have revolutionized the field of viticulture worldwide—the organic movement and biodynamic movement. While biodynamics is frequently explained in spiritual... -
Industrial Hemp: Turning Over a New Leaf
Posted on November 24, 2010 | 3 CommentsBy Staff Writer Stacey Warde. Industrial hemp has played a key role in civilized culture for thousands of years, providing durable wear against the elements, sails for adventurers and fighting...