Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

He invited me to spend the summer in New York City in 1968 working construction. There are many different schools of thought or different methodologies that people embrace as we do our farm work, and I have borrowed from many, but my favorite is agroecology. It seemed like the whole world was in New York City.

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Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The environmental and financial problems of the hill farming sector have been written about exhaustively, so I won’t expand on them here – other than to say that while hill farming has a central role to play in socially and ecologically vibrant landscapes, a major shift towards agroecological practices is needed to realise this.

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Farming Farming Ecology Construction 98

Sustainable Food Trust

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

According to Compson, “Organic certification provides a market mechanism for farmers to be rewarded and recognised for their positive efforts towards tackling the climate and ecological crisis.” Today, shoppers in the United Kingdom spend £60 million a week on organic. Yet, there are concerns about organic certification.

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