Image by Stephen Melkisethian via Flickr
by Ellen Brown
Writer, Dandelion Salad
The Web of Debt Blog
April 5, 2018
Bayer and Monsanto have a long history of collusion to poison the ecosystem for profit. The Trump administration should veto their merger not just to protect competitors but to ensure human and planetary survival.
by Lo
editor, Dandelion Salad
May 11, 2014
Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers in the world.
Image by Dandelion Salad via Flickr
Image by Dandelion Salad via Flickr
Photos by Dandelion Salad
Text from en.wikipedia.org/
November 10, 2013
The Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus), also called sunroot, sunchoke, earth apple or topinambour, is a species of sunflower native to eastern North America, and found from eastern Canada and Maine west to North Dakota, and south to northern Florida and Texas.[1] Continue reading
Image by Dandelion Salad via Flickr
TEDxTalks on Apr 6, 2011
Long live the Food Movement! Brian Halweil, publisher of “Edible Manhattan,” discusses the problems with the global food system and the solutions he’s found cropping up everywhere.
Image by Dandelion Salad via Flickr
breakingtheset on May 16, 2013
Abby Martin talks to wife of former US Rep. Dennis Kucinich and director of the Center for Food Safety, Elizabeth Kucinich, about the US Senate’s farm bill, the pure food movement, and the need to adopt better agricultural policies that will benefit American citizens.
Image by Dandelion Salad via Flickr
TEDtalksDirector·Mar 6, 2013
Ron Finley plants vegetable gardens in South Central LA — in abandoned lots, traffic medians, along the curbs. Why? For fun, for defiance, for beauty and to offer some alternative to fast food in a community where “the drive-thrus are killing more people than the drive-bys.”
Image by Dandelion Salad via Flickr
linktv· Dec 12, 2012
Growing food in cities. Entrepreneur and filmmaker Ian Cheney on why truck farms are catching on in New York. In Sweden, Plantagon, a leader in vertical urban agriculture, plans to feed tomorrow’s mega cities with skyscraper farms. And with more droughts and water shortages likely, scientists at Penn State University are finding new ways to help plants adapt to tough conditions.
Continue reading
Updated: Oct. 31, 2012
Image by Benjamin Pender via Flickr
Oct 28, 2012 by kirstendirksen
The “Tenderloin National Forest” is likely the one of the world’s smallest “forests”- it’s just 23 feet wide by 136 feet deep-, but it is a refuge in one of the most densely-packed neighborhoods in the heart of San Francisco.
When artists Darryl Smith and Laurie Lazer first moved into a space on Cohen Alley in 1989, it was “a place emblazed in a health-hazardous cesspool of bodily fluids and other dumped items, non-supervised open-air chemical experiments and illicit — criminal activities”.
by Joseph Natoli
Guest Writer
Dandelion Salad
Sept. 28, 2012
Image by Dandelion Salad via Flickr
My maternal grandmother grew tomato plants in huge coffee cans on a rooftop veranda in Brooklyn. Before that in a town called Patti (Greek for “on the shore”) on the Bay of Patti in Sicily, she made bread for the burgher class and pastries for the Baron and his family, a Sicilian version of Downton Abbey. The “contadini” made their own bread. She owned a filbert grove (nocciolanoc; namesd after St. Philibert whose feast day coincided with the ripening of the nut) and fed a neighbor’s hog which she received half of at butchering time. Continue reading
Image by Dandelion Salad via Flickr
Sep 30, 2012 by AlJazeeraEnglish
The recent drought in the United States has damaged crops and driven up food prices.
However, organic farmers say that they have fared better, thanks to alternative growing methods.
Al Jazeera’s John Hendren reports from Ottawa, Illiois.
Jamie Simko
Image by Dandelion Salad via Flickr
DIRT! THE MOVIE is an astonishing, humorous and substantial look at the glorious and unappreciated ground beneath our feet. Dirt feeds us and gives us shelter. Dirt holds and cleans our water. Dirt heals us and makes us beautiful. Dirt regulates the earth’s climate. Why do we humans ignore, abuse, and destroy our most precious living natural resource? Consider the results of such behavior: mass starvation, drought, floods and global warming. Continue reading
Image by Dandelion Salad via Flickr
Oct 17, 2012 by ediblecitythemovie
Dig in and Grow the Revolution at www.ediblecity.net
Edible City is a fun, fast-paced journey through the Local Good Food movement that’s taking root in the San Francisco Bay Area, across the nation and around the world.
Introducing a diverse cast of extraordinary and eccentric characters who are challenging the paradigm of our broken food system, Edible City digs into their unique perspectives and transformative work, finding hopeful solutions to monumental problems.
Inspirational, down-to-earth and a little bit quirky, Edible City captures the spirit of a movement that’s making real change and doing something truly revolutionary: growing the model for a healthy, sustainable local food system.
Image by Andwar via Flickr
Aug 20, 2012 by yardboidoroony
You don’t need to eat fish to set up a backyard aquaponics system! Ducks are a great alternative and produce a huge amount of nutrient for growing veggies (not to mention eggs, meat and snail & slug control!) and they’re generally good friends to have around. At the Farm of Fluff, Chris and James set up this “quaquaponics” system with a few bits and pieces we’d collected from the side of the road and so far it’s doing brilliantly! You need a strong pump and good filtration to cope with the large particles coming through, though! (We found a whole tomato blocking the drain one day, so check and clean regularly!)
http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/earthrise/2012/08/2012817102031778843.html
Image by detroitunspun via Flickr
Jul 2, 2012 – Al Jazeera English
In the early 20th century the American city of Detroit was a booming industrial powerhouse and world leader in car manufacturing. But since the major car companies closed their factories, more than a million taxpayers have moved out of Detroit, leaving behind more than 100 square kilometers of vacant land, and nearly 40,000 abandoned houses. A group of visionary residents are now sowing the seeds of an urban farming revolution.
Dandelion Salad 