The French Parliament recently approved a new law requiring all new commercial buildings to partially have their roofs covered with plants or solar … [Read more...]
Building Soil for Earth Week
Pleistocene Park Discussion with Manager, Nikita Zimov Sunday, April 18, 9 - 10:30 AM ET (GMT-4) Zoom … [Read more...]
City Agriculture – January 21, 2021, the Happy Inauguration Issue
A rooftop forest for … [Read more...]
City Agriculture – November 7, 2019
Net Zero plant-filled Singapore pavilion for Dubai’s 2020 World … [Read more...]
Agrophotovoltaics, Agriphotovoltaics, Solar Sharing
Fraunhofer Institute in Germany has been doing “agrophotovoltaics” studies for the last few years, the concept of producing both crops and solar power on the same land. Their 2018 study results are available here: … [Read more...]
UMass Sustainable Food and Farming Certificate Program
We currently have 600 students registered in our UMass Sustainable Food and Farming Certificate Program. If you are interested in this 15 credit UMass degree, see: https://stockbridge.cns.umass.edu/SFF-Certificate AND..... Our … [Read more...]
MA Farmer receives check for $0 for beef he sold
On the dairy side: According to Ziemba, it costs him and farmers like him $20 to produce 100 pounds of milk, but the market price for that 100 pounds is just over $10. By milking 175 cows, seven days per week, Ziemba produces 10,000 pounds … [Read more...]
E-I-E-I-O is no longer enough
"Sensing the winds of reform at his back, Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa, chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, told a reporter in July: "This is not just a farm bill. It's a food bill, and Americans who eat want a stake in it."Pollan … [Read more...]