Farming Food for Life
describes how he and his network of smallholder farmers have transformed degraded land into productive, carbon-sequestering farms by focusing on soil health, microbial activity, and community-supported agriculture.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kIk_2dhekfk
#food #foodsecurity #climate #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction @ExtinctionR
@xrfrance
@environment
#farming #regenerative #agriculture #famine #starvation #economy #socialism #africa @blackmastodon
Different cultivars of peppers vary dramatically in vitimins and minerals.
Capsaicin and redness are positively correlated with Vitamin C.
Some peppers are very high in folate but should be eaten raw (not cooked) as cooking degrades folate. Article below.
#FoodSecurity #nutrition #gardening #garten #jardin #food #comida #essen #nourriture
An upset Climeworks donor is conplaining they’ve given ~$2,000 to them, and now none of their ~3 tonnes have been sequestered, in fact it’s only funded more emissions.
For $2,000 you could sponsor ~750 trees, with a survival rate of 80% guaranteed. Most of them will do a tonne eventually, and more importantly it’s not just helping #ClimateAction but #BiodiversityCrisis #FloodMitigation #FoodSecurity and it’s a nice place to wander about, maybe with a dog. https://shop.protect.earth/
#GoodShepherd pushes for increase in #MainersFeedingMainers program at state house
By Sierra Whaley
Published: May 13, 2025 at 5:17 PM EDT
AUGUSTA, Maine (WABI) - "Federal cuts have impacted funding for #HungerRelief programs across the state.
"That’s why state representatives gathered at the state house to push for the passage of a bill that could strengthen a 15-year-partnership between the state and Good Shepherd to keep reliable sources alive in this uncertain time.
" 'As our costs are going up and as our funding is going down as we’ve experienced funding cancellations federally, we are looking for a more cost share model with the state and asking for increased state support,' said Heather Paquette, president of Good Shepherd Food Bank.
"The Good Shepherd Food Bank is Maine’s only #FeedingAmerica food bank distributing food from Fort Kent to Kittery.
"They’re urging lawmakers to pass #LD415 sponsored by North Yarmouth Rep. Annie Graham.
"It’s a bill to increase the state’s support for the Mainers feeding Mainers program through Good Shepherd.
"Here’s how it works.
" 'We purchase fresh local produce from 93 farmers throughout the state of Maine from Fort Kent to Kittery and those farmers deliver that fresh produce directly to our pantry partners which serve them to neighbors experiencing food insecurity in the state of Maine,' said Paquette.
"According to Feeding America nearly 200-thousand Mainers are experiencing hunger.
"That includes over 50,000 children.
"Which is why the increase would provide more security for state sources, such as #farmers, to keep those community partnerships active.
"If passed the bill would increase the funding from one million to two million dollars."
Brits skeptical of American meat? Trade agreements aren’t magically solving food safety concerns. #FoodSecurity #Brexit #Agriculture
The buy up continues and more farmland in southern Ontario is being destroyed.
Pillage and plunder ... 
https://kitchener.citynews.ca/2025/05/14/over-70-per-cent-of-wilmot-land-assembly-purchased-by-region
«A new study has warned that if global temperatures rise more than 1.5°C, significant crop diversity could be lost in many regions»
Are we not sufficiently AT the 1.5°C mark that this dance in reporting is ludicrous? I keep seeing reports (several quoted by me here below) that we averaged above that in 2024, so I find this predication on a pipe dream HIGHLY misleading.
Even just wordings suggesting that the crossing of some discete boundary will trigger an effect, but that not crossing it will not, is misleading. It's not like 1.49°C will leave us with no loss of diversity, but 1.51°C will hit us with all these effects.
What needs to be said more plainly is this: significant crop diversity is being ever more lost in real time now, and this loss is a result of global average temperatures that are dangerous and getting moreso. That they are a specific value on an instantaneous or rolling average basis gives credibility and texture to this qualitative claim, but no comfort should be drawn from almost-ness nor from theoretical clains that action could yet pull us back from a precipice that there is not somilarly substantiated qualitative reason to believe we are politically poised to make.
Science reporting does this kind of thing a lot. Someone will get funding to test whether humans need air to breathe but some accident of how the experiments are set up will find that only pregnant women under 30 were available for testing so the report will be a very specific about that and news reports will end up saying "new report proves pregnant women under 30 need air to breathe", which doesn't really tell the public the thing that the study really meant to report. Climate reporting is full of similarly overly specific claims that allow the public to dismiss the significance of what's really going on. People writing scientific reports need to be conscious of the fact that the reporting will be done in that way and that public inaction will be a direct result of such narrow reporting.
In the three reports that I quote below, the Berkeley report at least takes the time to say "recent warming trends and the lack of adequate mitigation measures make it clear that the 1.5 °C goal will not be met." We need more plain wordings like this, and even this needs to have been more prominently placed.
There is a conspiracy, intentional or not, between the writers of reports and the writers of articles. The article writer wants to quote the report, but the report wants to say something that has such technical accuracy that it will be misleading when quoted by someone writing articles. Some may say it's not an active conspiracy, just a negative synergy, but the effect is the same. Each party acts as if it is being conservative and careful, but the foreseeable combination of the two parts is anything but conservative or careful.
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«The global annual average for 2024 in our dataset is estimated as 1.62 ± 0.06 °C (2.91 ± 0.11 °F) above the average during the period 1850 to 1900, which is traditionally used a reference for the pre-industrial period.
…
A goal of keeping global warming to no more than 1.5 °C (2.7 °F) above pre-industrial has been an intense focus of international attention. This goal is defined based on multi-decadal averages, and so a single year above 1.5 °C (2.7 °F) does not directly constitute a failure. However, RECENT WARMING TRENDS AND THE LACK OF ADEQUATE MITIGATION MEASURES MAKE IT CLEAR THAT THE 1.5 °C GOAL WILL NOT BE MET. The long-term average of global temperature is likely to effectively cross the 1.5 °C (2.7 °F) threshold in the next 5-10 years. While the 1.5 °C goal will not be met, urgent action is still needed to limit man-made climate change.
»
https://berkeleyearth.org/global-temperature-report-for-2024/
(CAPS mine for emphasis)
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«WMO confirms 2024 as warmest year on record at about 1.55°C above pre-industrial level
…
The global average surface temperature was 1.55 °C (with a margin of uncertainty of ± 0.13 °C) above the 1850-1900 average, according to WMO’s consolidated analysis of the six datasets. This means that we have likely just experienced the first calendar year with a global mean temperature of more than 1.5°C above the 1850-1900 average.»
https://wmo.int/news/media-centre/wmo-confirms-2024-warmest-year-record-about-155degc-above-pre-industrial-level
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«Temperatures Rising: NASA Confirms 2024 Warmest Year on Record
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NASA scientists further estimate Earth in 2024 was about 2.65 degrees Fahrenheit (1.47 degrees Celsius) warmer than the mid-19th century average (1850-1900). For more than half of 2024, average temperatures were more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above the baseline, and the annual average, with mathematical uncertainties, may have exceeded the level for the first time.»
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/temperatures-rising-nasa-confirms-2024-warmest-year-on-record/
The Malvern Urban Farm in Toronto's east end currently supports about 17 farmers, who each get their own plot of land to plant and grow crops. (CBC) #prepping #foodsecurity #urbanfarms https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/malvern-urban-farm-expansion-scarborough-1.7526001
A neighbor in my local food mutual aid group posted "Hey, a friend of mine raises chickens and had an extra 36 eggs. She gave them to me. I kept a dozen. I dropped another dozen off at the free fridge. Does anyone want the last dozen?"
So I snagged them.
I was told to wash them thoroughly as they were quite "fresh". 
My #FoodSecurity program is headed into microeconomics this summer, and I am:
1) Simultaneously glad I read epistemics before economics because this almost demands a real beady eye about how it set its foundational assumptions about the world;
2) Thinking I've been criticizing other people's shit a lot lately and I should keep an eye on that;
3) Still and yet aware that criticism isn't what we do *in place of* a contribution, it's the problem identification process *on the way* to one.
I came across this article while looking for how to plant #ThreeSisters (and #Sunflowers). Very informative! I learned that I should be planting my sunflowers in the north (makes sense, so they don't overshadow the corn). The article includes Zuni and Wampanoag garden designs!
The Three Sisters: Planting Corn, Beans, and Squash Together
By Melissa Breyer
Updated October 11, 2022
"The sisters are corn, pole beans, and squash (traditionally winter squash, but summer squash can work too). According to legend, notes the Almanac, 'the plants were a gift from the gods, always to be grown together, eaten together, and celebrated together.' "
https://www.treehugger.com/three-sisters-why-you-should-plant-corn-beans-and-squash-together-4857996
Black and white drawing of a black cat wearing a bandana with a speech bubble that reads "IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO STARVE CHILDREN IN SELF DEFENSE."
#News: #India suspends #Indus Waters Treaty after #Kashmir attack, raising fears of #water crisis in #Pakistan. Farmers warn of devastating impacts on agriculture and livelihoods. #FoodSecurity #War #Geopolitics #Environment
https://dialogue.earth/en/water/the-indus-waters-treaty-hangs-in-the-balance/?mc_cid=8b53184a45
More frequent hot weather & #droughts dealt a significant blow to crop #yields, esp. for key #grains like #wheat, #barley & #maize. Warming & air dryness—a key factor in crop stress—surged in nearly every major agricultural region: woods.stanford.edu/news/heat-an... #climatechange #foodsecurity
Heat and drought are quietly h...
Generations of gardeners regenerating the soil of sovereignty in Moose Cree First Nation: An account of community and research collaboration
#Indigenous #FirstNation #FoodSecurity #FoodSovereignty #Gardening #FoodSustainability #CommunityBased #ParticipatoryResearch #ActionResearch #Resurgence
#Read all you want! #OpenAccess
#Share generously! #KnowledgeSharing
#Grow your understanding of #Food
#Repeat
https://canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cfs/article/view/637
@mondoweiss @palestine @israel
"When we do eat, I pretend I’m full and leave food for my children. My children notice and try to share some of their food with me, but I leave it for them and keep my hunger in silence." -- Muhammad Abdul Aziz, Gaza City
Get rid of the focus on helping our planet and we'll starve. Pretty simple.
Drought conditions already hitting UK crop production, farmers say
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/07/drought-conditions-already-hitting-uk-crop-production-farmers-say
People need to read this kind of news like the Martin Niemöller poem "First they came". Climate is a tyrant wannabe, following the same plan as a dictator wannabe the current US President, or like Hitler and others before him:
First attack the most vulnerable and hope most people shrug it off as not relevant to them. Then ratchet it up a bit more.
It comes for is all .. or in this case for all of our food. Do not treat this story as a one-off anomaly. Just like stories about polar bears are not about just polar bears.
These are the metaphorical canaries in our coal mine of a planet. Hear them for the alarm they are meant to be.
Treat it as practice for worse. If you don't know what that means to do, treat this as a chance to ask a lot of hard questions. When Climate comes for you, and for your food supply, it will likely be too late.
Is there a national orange shortage?
#UK
#FoodSecurity
I'm pleased to share this recently published paper led by University of San Francisco undergraduate student Alex Meza in which I played the smallest part. In it, we examine light pollution as a threat to #pollinators that support #Indigenous #FoodSecurity and sovereignty.
