Posts By: Peter Brezny

Coordinated effort to fix the broken US food system.

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The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) has put together an impressive array of somewhat startling facts, and a road map to get us back on track to a sustainable healthy food system. Check it out here: http://www.ucsusa.org/food-agriculture/fixing-our-broken-food-system-plate-of-the-union-initiative

National Honeybee Colony Loss figures for 2015

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We track honeybee insect colony populations because they are a valuable monetary asset to humanity.  I’d venture to say that we know a lot about insects in general because of the honeybee. The beeinformed partnership tracks colony loss, and this past year was a hard one: Nation’s Beekeepers Lost 44 Percent of Bees in 2015-16… Read more »

Promising indicators for sustainable small farms

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For a while there I was wondering if it was a realistic expectation to manage to make a living above the ‘poverty line’ as a small farmer.  Nearly content with the idea of joining the ‘wealthy-poor’ from the sheer satisfaction that can be gained as a farmer, I ran across a few articles that seem… Read more »