Subsidized Fracking Hits Colorado This is an interesting article documenting the connections between tax subsidies, oil and gas fracking, and harms to the public health. And this article indicates that this kind of extreme oil production is NOT a free…
Category: Food Supply
Right to Farm equals No Right to Grow Food
Yesterday, Missouri passed by a .03% margin an undemocratic constitutional amendment cynically called “right to farm.” Big Ag is pushing this in Oklahoma. This is for the benefit of multinational meat companies (Tyson) and chemical companies (Monsanto). They want it…
40 maps that explain food in America
The future of the nations will depend on the manner of how they feed themselves, wrote the French epicurean Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin in 1826. Almost 200 years later, how nations feed themselves has gotten a lot more complicated. That’s particularly…
Growing Carrots and Food Security
Growing Communities
Imagine a city in which every neighborhood is filled with healthy street trees, attractive parks, and productive gardens; where the air and water are clean; where neighborhood youth take an active role in improving their environment; and where diverse residents come together to build their city stronger through community stewardship.
Colorado Potato Beetle
Okay. It’s a really pretty beetle. (Click on it and look at it up close if you don’t believe me) Even if you don’t really like bugs, if you leave that part out, and really look at it with open…
An Affair Worth Ending: Fuel and Food
By Guest Author, Julie Hitchcock Food. Lets face it, who doesn’t love good food, we love to eat it, grill it, serve it and share it with love ones. Every thing from the famed Thanksgiving meal where the table is…
March Update
Dear Garden Notes Readers, I have received many emails in the last few days, some unsubscribes, and many new subscribers. Your emails have been a cross section of geography, thought, and opinion. Garden Notes readers span the globe from Japan,…
EMERGENCY: Nuclear Meltdown Underway. Brace for Nuclear Fallout.
EMERGENCY: YOU MUST TAKE ACTION NOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF AND YOUR FAMILY. READ CAREFULLY AND TAKE ACTION. Dearest friends and family, I never imagined that I would ever in my life-time write an email with a subject line like this…
Death of the Honey Bees
This is a reprint of a comprehensive article by Brit Amos. It is a sobering essay on the effects modern technology and biological chemistry is having on our food supply. GMO Crops and the Decline of Bee Colonies in North…
The Herb Cottage
Okay, I haven’t been there, but I was born in Texas, does that count? 😉 I was delighted that she offered us the opportunity to publish her article, Horseradish, Herb of the Year 2011 a well written and informative article…
Biggest Threat to the Entire Food Chain
We have all heard of Roundup by now, but did you know that Monsanto’s glyphosate-based herbicide, is causing Sudden Death Syndrome (SDS), a serious plant disease, in many fields. Study after study shows that glyphosate is contributing not only to…