Consumers underestimate the full environmental impact of cotton, thinking it takes only 314 liters of water to make a cotton T-shirt – which is only 12% of the true figure of 2,700 liters, according to a new report. Buying an organic cotton T-shirt would save 2,457 liters of water, according to a new report from the Soil Association. Gail Taylor, ‘The People’s Farmer,’ feeds her community with Three Part Harmony Farm and helped pass legislation to benefit urban farmers in D.C. Trump farm secretary: No guarantee small farms will survive. Perdue’s visit comes as Wisconsin dairy farmers are wrestling with a host of problems, including declining milk prices, rising suicide rates, the transition to larger farms with hundreds or thousands of animals and Trump’s international trade wars. An intrepid old farmer has succeeded where many others have failed in growing a lush green oasis in the middle of a cold desert.
The staggering potential of switching to organic clothes
Buying an organic cotton T-shirt would save 2,457 liters of water, according to a new report from the Soil Association.
The Woman Leading the Way for Urban Farming in the Nation’s Capital
Gail Taylor, ‘The People’s Farmer,’ feeds her community with Three Part Harmony Farm and helped pass legislation to benefit urban farmers in D.C.
Trump farm secretary: No guarantee small farms will survive
Perdue’s visit comes as Wisconsin dairy farmers are wrestling with a host of problems, including declining milk prices, rising suicide rates, the transition to larger farms with hundreds or thousands of animals and Trump’s international trade wars.
Fake Food, Fake Meat: Big Food’s Desperate Attempt to Further the Industrialisation of Food
As an ancient Upanishad reminds us “Everything is food, everything is something else’s food. “ Good Food and Real Food are the basis of health. Bad food, industrial food, fake food is the basis of disease. Hippocrates said, “Let food be thy medicine”. In Ayurveda, India’s ancient science of life, food is called “sarvausadha” the medicine that cures all disease.
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Man Succeeds Where Government Fails: He Planted a Forest in the Middle of a Cold Desert
An intrepid old farmer has succeeded where many others have failed in growing a lush green oasis in the middle of a cold desert.
