Baker Creek Invites and Un-invites Cliven Bundy to Speak

...had the budget to keep threatened protestors at a distance. It’s not the first time I’ve witnessed some haphazard curatorial decisions on a Baker Creek event roster. Speakers at their Santa Rosa Heirloom festival, in past years, included many well known experts in gardening and farming but also pseudoscientists such as “Food Babe” Vani Deva Hari and Joseph Mercola. This week’s Bundy kerfuffle leaves me scratching my head about Baker Creek’s ideolo...

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The Elysium Delusion

...x things on earth, let’s all get the hell out–it’s the ultimate form of suburban flight. NASA’s 1970s era version of Elysium The heyday of space colonization futurism was the 1970s. But space station fantasies have reappeared in popular culture recently. At the end of the recently released movie Elysium [spoiler alert] the evil French speaking space colonists (who look like Armani clad Santa Barbarans) have their computer reset by Matt Damon who,...

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Organic Seed Growers Webinar

...r the live broadcast of selected presentations at http://www.extension.org/pages/70186 Note: You only need to register once, and you may come and go on both days as you wish! Schedule of Organic Seed Growers’ Conference Webinar Broadcasts Friday January 31, 2014 9:00-10:30AM: Why Organic Seed Matters and How to Meet the Demand Organic seed that meets the diverse agronomic challenges and market needs of organic farmers is fundamental to their succe...

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Day to day, our decisions count

...most of that’s soil which is being stripped of its wealth by unsustainable farming practices. So yeah…uggh. There’s no need to beat this with a hammer. What can we do at home? What kind of personal disciplines can we take on to stop wasting food? I don’t have all the answers! I’m hoping you all will have some suggestions. Here’s a few things I can offer: Avoid eating out, especially at places where you know the food isn’t sourced well, and the por...

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Saturday Tweets: K-Cups, Kittens and Smartphone Microscopes

...KJlSkioYz via @TakePart — Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 20, 2015 Factory Farming: Was the World Created for Me? http://t.co/5vgfY983QV via @HuffPostRelig — Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 19, 2015 Big Ag kills backyard chicken ordinance in Augusta: http://t.co/zdbsUdbFCi via @DailyProgress — Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 18, 2015 Depaving Cities, Undamming Rivers—Here’s How We’re Undoing the Damage http://t.co/j0dYhsvYoL #TogetherWithEarth pic...

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