tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7749109954897325732009-10-27T09:05:19.868-07:00Krypto Food :: 'SQWormsAndrea Muhrrteynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13455575591213217060noreply@blogger.comBlogger54125eco-foodhttp://feedburner.google.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-774910995489732573.post-30889783199253980602009-08-25T15:06:00.000-07:002009-08-25T15:38:18.785-07:00The Worm Man: Organic Way to Repel White Fly, Red Ants & Pests from Your Garden! | Worm Casting Applications.Only since 1800, in the last 0.1% of the history of Homo sapiens, has the human population shot into the billions. Now at nearly 6.7 billion, with 9 billion looming 40 years away, few environmentalists seem to care.Yet the population-environment link is clear. Our environmental impact, as gauged by total resource consumption for a country or the world, is the product of population size and the Andrea Muhrrteynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13455575591213217060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-774910995489732573.post-39068251480313415882009-06-11T10:52:00.001-07:002009-06-11T11:02:39.117-07:00Food, Inc. Documentary Movie Removes Shroud of Secrecy || Betting the Farm: Longterm: Global Population driver of Food Price Spikes.To give the reader an idea of the energy intensiveness of modern agriculture, production of one kilogram of nitrogen for fertilizer requires the energy equivalent of from 1.4 to 1.8 liters of diesel fuel. This is not considering the natural gas feedstock.In a very real sense, we are literally eating fossil fuels. However, due to the laws of thermodynamics, there is not a direct correspondence Andrea Muhrrteynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13455575591213217060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-774910995489732573.post-40169418299033004462009-06-01T14:02:00.000-07:002009-06-01T14:51:44.265-07:00Dangers & Rewards of Home-Gardens || Indoor Survival Garden || Tire Garden || Survival Gardening: Lazy Tomatoe Growing || Rule of 3 & Survival Seed.Post collapse hiding our food crops could be requisite to filling our gut with fresh produce. Somehow the idea of consuming only ground wheat gruel, day after day – month after month doesn't seem very appealing. Combined with beans it will keep you alive, but after six or eight months of this diet you will die of boredom if nothing else.Grain can be sprouted and young sprouts eaten raw or dried Andrea Muhrrteynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13455575591213217060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-774910995489732573.post-55720603775456138202009-06-01T13:16:00.000-07:002009-08-25T15:41:33.951-07:00Victory Gardens: Growing a Greener City: Community gardens benefit the neighborhood, the economy and the environment.
I recently explored whether it was sufficient to pursue an energy revolution as a means for smoothing the path toward a stable, prospering population. The perfect nonpolluting cheap energy source might simply increase our appetites ( Jevons Paradox) and encourage ever-rising populations given that energy easily translates into water and food. Basically, do we need a “values revolution” as well?Andrea Muhrrteynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13455575591213217060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-774910995489732573.post-45613133814740081202009-06-01T12:03:00.000-07:002009-06-01T13:16:03.631-07:00Victory Gardens: Depression and Growth of Community and Urban Gardening: Bay Area's new crop of gardeners digging in.I recently explored whether it was sufficient to pursue an energy revolution as a means for smoothing the path toward a stable, prospering population. The perfect nonpolluting cheap energy source might simply increase our appetites ( Jevons Paradox) and encourage ever-rising populations given that energy easily translates into water and food. Basically, do we need a “values revolution” as well?~Andrea Muhrrteynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13455575591213217060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-774910995489732573.post-64963836186139148452009-06-01T09:33:00.000-07:002009-06-01T10:11:34.492-07:00Will More Food Simply Boost Population? || Growing Food in Times of Scarcity || The gentle art of non-gardening.I recently explored whether it was sufficient to pursue an energy revolution as a means for smoothing the path toward a stable, prospering population. The perfect nonpolluting cheap energy source might simply increase our appetites ( Jevons Paradox) and encourage ever-rising populations given that energy easily translates into water and food. Basically, do we need a “values revolution” as well?~Andrea Muhrrteynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13455575591213217060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-774910995489732573.post-38168369638129361182009-06-01T08:52:00.000-07:002009-06-01T09:14:15.383-07:00Organic seed to be produced in the Klein Karoo || Mulch Benefits for Organic Farmers || Project helps emerging farmers go organic.To give the reader an idea of the energy intensiveness of modern agriculture, production of one kilogram of nitrogen for fertilizer requires the energy equivalent of from 1.4 to 1.8 liters of diesel fuel. This is not considering the natural gas feedstock.In a very real sense, we are literally eating fossil fuels. However, due to the laws of thermodynamics, there is not a direct correspondence Andrea Muhrrteynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13455575591213217060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-774910995489732573.post-38312852129181931272009-06-01T08:13:00.000-07:002009-06-01T08:42:46.055-07:00Soil Fertility: Feed the soil to feed the plants || African Bees to the rescue as colonies vanish? || Dung Beetles Saving farmers’ little helpers.The Albrecht method was developed by Dr William Albrecht, a US scientist who found that the decline in soil fertility was caused by a lack of organic material, major elements and trace minerals in soils, which then yielded poor crops. He said major elements must be present in the soil in certain ratios and as soil can only contain a certain amount of nutrients, an excess of one nutrient would Andrea Muhrrteynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13455575591213217060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-774910995489732573.post-79717137749638244572009-06-01T07:33:00.000-07:002009-06-01T08:01:29.455-07:00Organic windfall for bankrupt soil || Does Compost Tea Work? || Soil health, from Compost, Thelema Vineyards Success.To give the reader an idea of the energy intensiveness of modern agriculture, production of one kilogram of nitrogen for fertilizer requires the energy equivalent of from 1.4 to 1.8 liters of diesel fuel. This is not considering the natural gas feedstock.In a very real sense, we are literally eating fossil fuels. However, due to the laws of thermodynamics, there is not a direct correspondence Andrea Muhrrteynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13455575591213217060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-774910995489732573.post-90243963461060013732009-06-01T06:39:00.000-07:002009-06-01T07:27:23.603-07:00Soil Health: Balance of Biology || Biological farming: Fuel in Soil's tank|| Soil Fertility Analysis: Albrecht Method || Cuba's Green Revolution.The Albrecht method was developed by Dr William Albrecht, one of the first scientists of the 20th century to observe that “food is fabricated soil fertility”. noted that the decline in soil fertility is due to a lack of organic material, major elements and trace minerals in the soil. This lack or imbalance of nutrients was responsible for poor crops and in turn, the pathological conditions in Andrea Muhrrteynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13455575591213217060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-774910995489732573.post-69583546420718933252009-06-01T05:49:00.000-07:002009-06-01T11:59:20.324-07:00Soil health is 'agricultural homeopathy' || Soil microorganisms thrive on organics || Toilers of the soil: the earthworm workers.To give the reader an idea of the energy intensiveness of modern agriculture, production of one kilogram of nitrogen for fertilizer requires the energy equivalent of from 1.4 to 1.8 liters of diesel fuel. This is not considering the natural gas feedstock.In a very real sense, we are literally eating fossil fuels. However, due to the laws of thermodynamics, there is not a direct correspondence Andrea Muhrrteynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13455575591213217060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-774910995489732573.post-48514120705891755272009-06-01T05:24:00.000-07:002009-06-01T05:39:49.936-07:00Soil Soldiers: Potassium, Sulphur & Phosphorous:: Potassium Truths || Sulphur: Vital for Soil || Phosphorous: Workhorse Nutrient.Today, 6.5 billion humans depend entirely on oil for food, energy, plastics & chemicals. Population growth is on a collision course with the inevitable decline in oil production.~ The Oil Factor: Behind the War on Terror, by Free Will Production ~ To give the reader an idea of the energy intensiveness of modern agriculture, production of one kilogram of nitrogen for fertilizer requires the Andrea Muhrrteynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13455575591213217060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-774910995489732573.post-53615871518668009772009-06-01T05:01:00.000-07:002009-06-01T05:22:11.982-07:00Soil Soldier: Nitrogen:: Nitrogen fertilisation: when to count on soil organic matter || Take care with nitrogen.To give the reader an idea of the energy intensiveness of modern agriculture, production of one kilogram of nitrogen for fertilizer requires the energy equivalent of from 1.4 to 1.8 liters of diesel fuel. This is not considering the natural gas feedstock. In a very real sense, we are literally eating fossil fuels. However, due to the laws of thermodynamics, there is not a direct correspondence Andrea Muhrrteynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13455575591213217060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-774910995489732573.post-73263179037805165132009-06-01T04:39:00.000-07:002009-06-01T04:53:36.506-07:00Conservation Agriculture (CA): No-Till Farming:: What no-till farmers need to know about nitrogen || No-till & biological farming: winning combination.My interest in no-till came about purely by default. I had started farming on virgin soil in a poor condition, but noticed that the soil improved proportionate to my economic restraints which had caused me to cut back on tillage operations. M y intention was that would go back to normal tillage when the economic constraints passed. As a vegetable producer, no-till was the furthest thing from my Andrea Muhrrteynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13455575591213217060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-774910995489732573.post-30355941190951949122009-06-01T04:15:00.001-07:002009-06-01T11:59:20.325-07:00Conservation Agriculture (CA): No-Till Farming:: Fifteen years of no-till – the results || No-till success on the Orange River.Conservation Agriculture (CA) principles like minimal soil disturbance through no-till or direct seeding, permanent soil cover, the use of crop residue and/or green manure cover crops, multi-cropping and crop rotation. CA not only reduced costs, but enhanced soil structure, increased humus content, nurtured microbial life, prevented erosion and increased moisture absorption. Jaco realised South Andrea Muhrrteynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13455575591213217060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-774910995489732573.post-62974135902519229852009-06-01T03:52:00.000-07:002009-06-01T04:10:33.534-07:00Is It a Trap?: South African farmers in high demand across Africa || Africa: Tractored out by “land grabs”?.Population Security Misery Theorems: [1]: "The Dismal Theorem"- If the only ultimate check on the growth of population is misery, then the population will grow until it is miserable enough to stop its growth. [2] "The Utterly Dismal Theorem" - This theorem states that any technical improvement can only relieve misery for a while, for so long as misery is the only check on population, the [Andrea Muhrrteynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13455575591213217060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-774910995489732573.post-87007190286758398422009-06-01T02:56:00.000-07:002009-06-01T03:24:07.162-07:00Report: Food security fuels Africa land grab | Africa's Misery Breeding Program, (aka PC) Food security or economic slavery?.Population Security Misery Theorems: [1]: "The Dismal Theorem"- If the only ultimate check on the growth of population is misery, then the population will grow until it is miserable enough to stop its growth. [2] "The Utterly Dismal Theorem" - This theorem states that any technical improvement can only relieve misery for a while, for so long as misery is the only check on population, the [Andrea Muhrrteynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13455575591213217060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-774910995489732573.post-27694942528698679602009-06-01T02:21:00.000-07:002009-06-01T02:55:15.736-07:00'Free' Congo Farm Land Seduction for White 'Neocolonial Land Grabbers' | Africa almost giving land away, says UN.The related terms, "sustainable" and "sustainability" are popularly used to describe a wide variety of activities which are generally ecologically laudable but which may not be sustainable. An examination of major reports reveals contradictory uses of the terms. An attempt is made here to give a firm and unambiguous definition to the concept of sustainability and to translate the definition intoAndrea Muhrrteynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13455575591213217060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-774910995489732573.post-66094958254350447322009-05-29T11:22:00.000-07:002009-05-29T11:57:27.703-07:00Australia's Johnny Appleseed Low Energy Input NoTill Ecology Farming Innovator.In a very, very rough rule of thumb, and unfortunately I talk in old acre terms, but round our neck of the woods about $85 per acre would be a regular conventional cropping cost; we do it for $6. So relating that to the output side of things, you see we don't need to generate much to double our money, do we, versus the conventional croppers need to have a massive output to double their money. Andrea Muhrrteynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13455575591213217060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-774910995489732573.post-69445339249720017972009-05-19T05:09:00.000-07:002009-05-19T05:38:00.206-07:00[Humanure: Peak Phosphorus]: Canadian Sewage-Invention Creates Cleaner Fertilizer than Rock Phosphate | Humanure: the end of sewage as we know it?.Phosphorus is one of the essential elements of fertilizer. Without it crops whither. The phosphorous in fertilizer comes from rock phosphate, which is mined primarily in Morocco, China and the United States. Like oil, rock phosphate is running out. The United States, historically the world's biggest producer, is expected to exhaust its reserves in 25 years. China recently slapped a 135 per cent Andrea Muhrrteynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13455575591213217060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-774910995489732573.post-64600365602948504322009-05-14T14:23:00.000-07:002009-06-01T03:49:18.429-07:00Dig For Victory: How Gardening Became Fashionable Again || The Starter Garden: The Manure Chronicles.Synthetic fertilizer prices are spiking upwards all over the world, inflicting economic pain on farmers everywhere. Another sign of the peak oil apocalypse? The industrial production of nitrogen -- a key synthetic fertilizer ingredient -- is extraordinarily energy intensive. So when energy prices rise, so do fertilizer prices. And if you buy the thesis that without manmade fertilizer the world Andrea Muhrrteynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13455575591213217060noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-774910995489732573.post-22661871908056049342009-05-01T06:16:00.000-07:002009-06-01T11:56:29.155-07:00Critical Thinking: Dark Side of Optimism: Bright Side of Bias: Building Realism: Why Looking on the Bright Side Keeps Us From Thinking Critically.Today, 6.5 billion humans depend entirely on oil for food, energy, plastics & chemicals. Population growth is on a collision course with the inevitable decline in oil production.To think that we can advocate for human rights, peace, and social justice while ignoring their necessary ecological basis—is both intellectually dishonest and ultimately self-defeating. The longer we put off choosing theAndrea Muhrrteynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13455575591213217060noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-774910995489732573.post-27531832659277477702009-04-24T12:44:00.000-07:002009-06-01T03:48:51.405-07:00Impending Water & Energy Resource Scarcity Collision | Upside of Peak Fertilizer | Saudi Arabia of Fertilizer.Synthetic fertilizer prices are spiking upwards all over the world, inflicting economic pain on farmers everywhere. Another sign of the peak oil apocalypse? The industrial production of nitrogen -- a key synthetic fertilizer ingredient -- is extraordinarily energy intensive. So when energy prices rise, so do fertilizer prices. And if you buy the thesis that without manmade fertilizer the world Andrea Muhrrteynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13455575591213217060noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-774910995489732573.post-34929624137671363142009-02-19T08:47:00.000-08:002009-10-27T09:05:20.194-07:00No Irish:: “If you don't believe in free speech for people you loathe, you hate, you revile, you don't believe in free speech at all.” :: No Jews.I was rather alarmed by the number of Canadian journalists who are quite happy to serve, in effect, as eunuchs of the politically correct state. I can't understand why anybody would want to do that.If you don't believe in free speech for people you loathe, you hate, you revile, you don't believe in free speech at all.~ “Free societies should not be in the business of criminalizing opinion” -- Andrea Muhrrteynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13455575591213217060noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-774910995489732573.post-45394730408200621342009-01-18T11:53:00.000-08:002009-06-01T03:49:18.430-07:00From Thomas GoldWater Farmer :: “When you look at a map of the world, you are not looking at countries, but farms.” :: With Moscow ClearSilverWater.The cycle of Mr. Phiri's Garden of Eden, starting to be noticed after 30 years of obscurity and sometimes scorn, continues to grow. Of the last three decades Mr. Phiri says, "Sure, it's a slow process, but that's life. Slowly implement these projects, and as you begin to rhyme with nature, soon other lives will start to rhyme with yours." He and the non-governmental organization he created, the Andrea Muhrrteynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13455575591213217060noreply@blogger.com1