An environmental initiative of Mata Amritanandamayi Math
This is a biodynamic and permaculture-based farm at Dartington. See this Guardian article.
Agroforestry, or forest gardening, as practised in Dartington by Martin Crawford. For a longer explanation see:– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFbcn06h8w4 NEW See:– International Forest Garden / Food Forest Symposium, Online 31 May-4 June 2021 and on-demand
Regenerative agriculture in Spain, where the gaps between vines are no longer ploughed, and the Knepp Estate in UK, where some areas are returning to being farmed. In the rewilding project, biodiversity is the product with meat as a by-product. … Continued
Mangroves cover 13,989 sq km of Brazil’s coast and are an important protection against climate change, with one acre of mangrove forest absorbing nearly the same amount of carbon dioxide as an acre of Amazon rainforest. The forests also protect … Continued
Avoiding meat and dairy While meat and dairy provide just 18% of calories and 37% of protein, it uses the vast majority – 83% – of farmland and produces 60% of agriculture’s greenhouse gas emissions.
Learn from Selina Juul, who came from Russia to Denmark and has introduced simple solutions to reduce food waste there by staggering amounts: 25% in five years. Supermarkets can help, and so can consumers. So become a one-person waste reducer!
The Soil Association warns that up to 30% of UK bread tested contained glyphosate, the main ingredient in most commercial weedkillers. Only certified organic bread can guarantee it does not contain glyphosate. Glyphosate is the most widely sold weedkiller in the … Continued
Community supported agriculture, or CSA as it is called, is practised in many places:- What is happening in your area?
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