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GUILFORD -- Yale University ecology professor David Skelly will speak about "Connecticut's Landscape: Past, Present and Future" at the annual meeting of the Guilford Land Conservation Trust at 7 p.m. Thursday. The meeting will be held at Dudley Farm on the east side of Route 77 just north of the intersection of routes 77 and 80. Skelly will discuss how Connecticut reached its present condition after centuries of intensive farming and what the future holds for its landscapes and ecosystems. Connecticut is one of the most densely populated states as well as one of the most heavily forested. This contrast is reflected in the state's wildlife. Bear, bobcat, beaver, moose and otter are all on the rebound in spite of development, according to a statement from the land trust. But challenges, s...
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Exploiting scientific illiteracy THE PEW APPROACH to polling described above is reminiscent of that used by the Idaho junior high school student Nathan Zohner, who found that 8 6 percent of survey respondents thought the substance "dihydrogen monoxide" should be banned when they were told that prolonged exposure to its solid form causes severe tissue damage, exposure to its gaseous form causes severe burns, and it has been found in excised tumors of terminal cancer patients.\n It is no coincidence, according to Taverne, that eco-fundamentalists are strongly represented in anti-globalization and anti-capitalism demonstrations around the world. [...] they are strikingly simi- lar to Alexander Hamilton's summary of the reasons that the United States Constitution would not, in some quarter...
... and to environmentfriendly no-till farming (which produces less runoff of chemicals, soil ero... consumption - even more in areas of intensive farming and arid or semiarid conditions - so the i...
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The former environmental science major knew how to run numbers. But agriculture is a hands-on endeavor, leaving farmers litde time to track their profits. "You get lost in the frenetic pace of farm life in the summer," [Richard Wiswall] attests. "You don't know if the rime you're putting into carrots - growing, harvesting, washing, storing, delivering - is justified by the sales. Thank God for the IRS," he adds. "I never thought I'd say that, but if it weren't for the IRS, [most farmers] wouldn't " be doing a big accounting even once a year. The pair and their children and staff still work a lot, dividing up the labor: "[[Sally Colman]] does all the greenhouses; I do all the fieldwork and physicalplant kind of things," Wiswall says. But nowadays, farming is "less management intensive,"...
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The heart, soul and director of Growing Power Inc., which has a farmers market and nine greenhouses tightly situated on a 2-acre wedge of land in the 5500 block of W. Silver Spring Drive, is Will Allen, a 6-foot-7 former professional basketball player who, at 56, is a catalyst in the effort to create a greener urban America. The Silver Spring site is a working farm, an outreach program for urban kids, a community center, a farmers cooperative, a source of fresh fruit and vegetables in an area of the city where supermarkets have all but vanished, and a springboard for urban gardens not only in Milwaukee but also throughout the United States. It is also where Will's interests in intensive farming, hydroponics, aquaculture, vermiculture and composting are given room to grow.
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VENTURE TARANAKI would do well to issue an invitation to Dr J. Morgan Williams, the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment and author of a just-released report into the sustainability of intensive farming in New Zealand, to visit Taranaki. Dr Williams and the team of investigators did not include this region in their studies, which concluded that a major revamp of farming systems was required, based on surveys in Waikato, Hawke's Bay, Canterbury and Southland. Were he and his team to spend some time beneath the shadow of Mt Taranaki, it may be that a revision of their paper would be justified, or certainly a footnote added. The point that seems to have escaped Dr Williams and his fellow researchers who, according to the blurb that accompanies a copy of their report, conducted mo...
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MINNEAPOLIS - Across southern Minnesota, women fill about half the chairs in workshops on sustainable farming. Outside North Branch, a new "Girls Farm" project just graduated its first batch of would-be teen farmers.
..."I learned bio-intensive farming techniques, what crops are good to plant n...
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MINNEAPOLIS -- Across southern Minnesota, women fill about half the chairs in workshops on sustainable farming. Outside North Branch, Minn., a new "Girls Farm" project just graduated its first batch of would-be teen farmers.
..."I learned bio-intensive farming techniques, what crops are good to plant n...
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... have continued investing in carbon intensive energy sources and promoting trade agreements that... that are carbon intensive, such as farming, fossil fuel use for energy, and raising livestock...
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.... (2) Low scaled farming level and backward feeding methods. Dairy farming ... quantity expansion to scaled and intensive farming with quality and efficiency. . By far, the...
