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  1. We are the Mama bears bringing baskets of turnips and beans from our own gardens. We wander the countryside looking for u-pick berry farms, and wild patches too, filling the freezers and jam cupboards. We weave magic in our steamy kitchens, jars upon jars gathering in our backrooms and basements. The greenhouse is overgrown with weeds and also full of lettuce and cucumbers hiding from the afternoon heat. We make food, harvest food and preserve food for our families but also for the love of it, the smell of ripe peaches blanching off their blush skins, tomato sauces bubbling away the hours, the ping of sealing jars while tea brews and crickets click, porch chairs creak and birds whistle in the brush. This life, this land, this way. For the love of it.
    #homesteading #countrylife #FoodSustainability #firstharvest #lughnasadh

  2. One Community aims to model ethical aquaculture for The Highest Good of All. Our team of vegetarians, vegans, and omnivores will raise catfish, freshwater mussels, and crawfish for food and fertilizer. This process is approached with respect and love, with open-source sharing to follow.

    onecommunityglobal.org/aquacul

    #EthicalAquaculture #SustainableLiving #OpenSourceEcology #Permaculture #AquacultureForGood #FoodSustainability #CommunityFarming #Aquaponics #RegenerativeAgriculture #EcoFriendly

  3. "Owing to the ever-increasing food insecurity globally and the deteriorating quality of crop production, the role of duckweed in the human diet, which uses no arable land for its cultivation, becomes quite crucial. The capability of producing rapidly and possessing high protein content makes the researchers keen for exploring the possibilities of utilizing duckweed for human consumption on large scale."

    Downloadable white papers on the use of duckweed is available on the website here as well as more information:

    wolffia.link

    #FoodSecurity #FoodSustainability #FutureFood #Prepping #GetPrepared #ClimateCrisis #ClimateDisaster
    #Wolffia

  4. Apparently collards are extremely cold hardy. I left a few scraggly plants in the outside raised garden in the fall. We had all kinds of nutty weather including 2 different cold snaps down to minus 26. The plants started growing well in the January fake spring and never stopped. I just picked this sink full and you can hardly tell I picked any. A very good prepping food plant.

    #gardening #FoodSustainability #Homesteading

  5. Generations of gardeners regenerating the soil of sovereignty in Moose Cree First Nation: An account of community and research collaboration

    Michael Robidoux
    Keira A. Loukes
    Emalee A. Vandermale
    Tegan J. Keil
    Janice Cindy Gaudet

    #Indigenous #FirstNation #FoodSecurity #FoodSovereignty #Gardening #FoodSustainability #CommunityBased #ParticipatoryResearch #Resurgence #ActionResearch

    #OpenAccess
    #Read
    #Share
    #Grow

    canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.

  6. I slept through a storm last night that was powerful enough to take out the power here for 10 hours. I had the genny going all day for the fridge and freezers. Going into winter, the fridge is not so much a problem but the freezers are unless it is VERY cold outside. And even then, it would be a huge job to transfer all that food outside into a safe space to keep it frozen. It's not likely to get that cold here for at least a couple of months. I try not to keep too much gas on hand because it is hard to get gas that has no ethanol in it which isn't great for the generator. (it settles out in a few months and can mess up the engine) I can buy fuel stabilizer but it's fairly expensive. But if we got a big outage, say a week, it would be hard to have that much fuel stored either way. We would be cooking and canning food like crazy but still some would be lost to spoilage.

    This is my weak spot in prepping. I don't have solar yet, because of finances. We are good for water, heat, and light. Until I can install solar for food preservation, the best thing to do is can as much as possible instead of relying on frozen food.

    Just a thought for the coming times.

    #Prepping #GetPrepared #Homesteading #FoodPreservation #FoodSustainability

  7. #PSA for all the #Australian #Farmers out there:

    A new charity has come about known as #FarmTransitionsAustralia and in summary per their website:

    "Farm Transitions Australia is a registered charity, established to assist Australian #meat and #dairy farmers transition into more sustainable and regenerative forms of plant-focused agriculture, business or other careers. We provide free business advisory and support services to farmers to help them build a better future for them and their families, through a financially-viable business and improved mental well-being, away from the stresses of their current farming situation."

    farmtransitionsaustralia.org/

    Something that would be useful to farmers that wish to make the switch, and may need some help in doing so, specifically in Australia.

    This has been done before in the UK and US, with an example article shown here from a few years ago:

    civileats.com/2020/01/13/the-p

    If you think a farmer you know may benefit from this organisation, feel free to pass the website along.

    Note that I am not affiliated with this charity in any way and gain nothing from this, financially or otherwise.

    #Farming #AnimalWelfare #AnimalRights #Australia #AnimalAgriculture #FoodSustainability

  8. Second graders! Remember that garden you planted in the spring?

    Twenty-three pounds of green beans, zucchini squash, onions, and lettuce were donated this morning bringing our grow-a-row totals to 95 lbs of food donated this summer!!!

    Can't wait to get to 💯!

    What should we do to celebrate our schools' achievement? 🤔

    #school #garden #gardening #FoodSustainability #FoodSecurity #food #farming #volunteer #teacher #education #educator

  9. The very best things I did when I decided to get into beekeeping was to take the local college course and to join the local beekeeping club.

    The instructor who is also the club president and the regional inspector has a deal with the big box stores that when (training a new fork life driver..) the spilled pallets of pure white sugar are given to him if he cleans it up.

    As the inspector, he is very conscious of safe food for the bees for early spring. Then at the club meetings they raffle off the sugar and other things. There is always more sugar than people so everyone gets some anyway.

    Today, the raffle proceeds were for the non-profit Elk Root Conservation Farm that is doing so many wonderful things for the community including providing food for at-risk community members, bee research, paid internships for students, and more.

    I ended up with 5 packages of organic pollinating flower seed packets and 10 gallons of sugar, tons of education and information, networking and of course cementing friendships with these people. This is the way.

    elkrootconservation.org/
    fundraising.westcoastseeds.com

    #prepping #FoodSustainability #LocalFood #community #MutualAid #conservation #SeedLibrary #xeriscape #HabitatRestoration #apiary #OrganicGardening #BeeKeeping

  10. Also, consider the environmental impact of conventional dog and cat food:

    “We find annual global dry pet food production is associated with 56–151 Mt CO2 equivalent emissions (1.1%−2.9% of global agricultural emissions), 41–58 Mha agricultural land-use (0.8–1.2% of global agricultural land use) and 5–11 km3 freshwater use (0.2–0.4% of water extraction of agriculture). These impacts are equivalent to an environmental footprint of around twicethe UK land area, and would make greenhouse gas emission from pet food around the 60th highest emitting country, or equivalent to total emissions from countries such as Mozambique or the Philippines. These results indicate that rising pet food demand should be included in the broader global debate about food system sustainability.”

    sciencedirect.com/science/arti

    #environment #LandUse #AnimalAgriculture #GreenhouseGasEmissions #WaterUse #FoodSustainability

  11. Bird flu either became less of an issue in my area of BC or it is not being reported on.. either way, do everything you can to prevent this from getting into your backyard flock. Have designated yard boots that don't leave your property. Don't visit other barn yards unless absolutely necessary then disinfect your boots, gloves, clothes, etc. Don't let visitors into your barnyard area. Keep your coops, waterers and feeders clean. No wild bird feeders or bird baths close to your flock. If you are buying birds from others, quarantine them until you are certain they are healthy. Read up on the signs of infection. There is LOTS of literature out there. This thing is NOT over.

    france24.com/en/environment/20

    #FoodSustainability #prepping #FoodSecurity

  12. Scientists at Cornell University suggest that onshore algae farms grown in regions that get a lot of sun (such as deserts) could produce all the protein needed to feed a population of 10 billion. Would you eat plant-based meats made with algae? As long as it's tasty, I'd happily give it a try!

    #food #sustainability #FoodSecurity #foodsustainability

    news.cornell.edu/stories/2022/

  13. "Owing to the ever-increasing food insecurity globally and the deteriorating quality of crop production, the role of duckweed in the human diet, which uses no arable land for its cultivation, becomes quite crucial. The capability of producing rapidly and possessing high protein content makes the researchers keen for exploring the possibilities of utilizing duckweed for human consumption on large scale."

    Downloadable white papers on the use of duckweed is available on the website here as well as more information:

    wolffia.link

    #FoodSecurity #FoodSustainability #FutureFood #Prepping #GetPrepared #ClimateCrisis #ClimateDisaster
    #Wolffia

  14. "Owing to the ever-increasing food insecurity globally and the deteriorating quality of crop production, the role of duckweed in the human diet, which uses no arable land for its cultivation, becomes quite crucial. The capability of producing rapidly and possessing high protein content makes the researchers keen for exploring the possibilities of utilizing duckweed for human consumption on large scale."

    Downloadable white papers on the use of duckweed is available on the website here as well as more information:

    wolffia.link

    #FoodSecurity #FoodSustainability #FutureFood #Prepping #GetPrepared #ClimateCrisis #ClimateDisaster
    #Wolffia

  15. "Owing to the ever-increasing food insecurity globally and the deteriorating quality of crop production, the role of duckweed in the human diet, which uses no arable land for its cultivation, becomes quite crucial. The capability of producing rapidly and possessing high protein content makes the researchers keen for exploring the possibilities of utilizing duckweed for human consumption on large scale."

    Downloadable white papers on the use of duckweed is available on the website here as well as more information:

    wolffia.link

    #FoodSecurity #FoodSustainability #FutureFood #Prepping #GetPrepared #ClimateCrisis #ClimateDisaster
    #Wolffia

  16. "Owing to the ever-increasing food insecurity globally and the deteriorating quality of crop production, the role of duckweed in the human diet, which uses no arable land for its cultivation, becomes quite crucial. The capability of producing rapidly and possessing high protein content makes the researchers keen for exploring the possibilities of utilizing duckweed for human consumption on large scale."

    Downloadable white papers on the use of duckweed is available on the website here as well as more information:

    wolffia.link

    #FoodSecurity #FoodSustainability #FutureFood #Prepping #GetPrepared #ClimateCrisis #ClimateDisaster
    #Wolffia