Thanksgiving tends to make me emotional and mushy about how much I appreciate the people and the circumstances in my life. Since Thanksgiving 2010, the Aquaponic Gardening book has been one of my central themes, so I guess it is only natural to focus my gratitude this year on those who really helped to make [...]
By any account, American agriculture is a tremendous success story. The problem is that this success is precariously balanced on a set of three crumbling ‘pillars’ whose degradation could reverse this course and put us on the path to less, rather than more food production and security. Much has changed about American agriculture – and [...]
I have to admit that when I arrived for the Mother Earth News Fair in Pennsylvania I was in a pretty marginal mood already. I had spent the day touring Carnegie Mellon University with my son, Ryan, and fell in love with their Computer Science program, as did he. But it is SO expensive! Why [...]
