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Massive new community garden set to open in Saanich this spring
The Blenkinsop Community Agricultural Centre will be home to hundreds of garden plots on nearly 14 acres of farmland in Saanich as early as March 1.
#Community #Garden #Agriculture #Farmland #Saanich #Canada
https://globalnews.ca/news/11025661/saanich-community-garden-farm/
#GoodNews - Several of my local small farm friends will benefit from this new program
#CRD will sow the seeds of #FoodSecurity & #GrowingFood in the region as it embarks on a new #foodlands access service.
The goal is to enhance food security & address concerns over the rising cost of #farmland by facilitating affordable access to productive land for new & expanding #farmers.
https://www.saanichnews.com/local-news/crd-digs-in-to-farming-with-new-foodland-service-7819363
Saanich News · CRD digs in to farming with new foodland service
Mixing things up a bit with an old Russian lens.
Fujifilm X-T2 | Helios 44-2 58mm f2
#Northumberland #Photography #LandscapePhotography #Farmland
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Snow Views
From the other week, looking out from over our village towards Ennerdale
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It's easy to be so intent on getting where we want to go that we forget where we actually are.
And it's also easy to wish so hard that we could be where someone else is, do what someone else does, that we neglect pursuing fully who we are, where we are.
The Pataha metal print -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/the-pataha-steve-henderson.html?product=metal-print
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(4/x) Vast areas of good US cropland are used to grow animal feed (#corn #alfalfa #hay #sorghum), not crops to directly nourish humans. Also globally a lot of prime #farmland no longer produces human food directly, raising #foodsecurity concerns: https://drawdown.org/insights/greenwashing-and-denial-wont-solve-beefs-enormous-climate-problems #landuse
Project DrawdownGreenwashing and denial won’t solve beef’s enormous climate problemsI’ll admit it: I like beef. Like many Americans, I was brought up to believe that beef was a central part of a traditional family meal. My mom made it. My kids ate it. Marketing campaigns told me it was healthy. Everywhere I went, I saw Americans eating lots of it. And for many years, I didn’t question these choices.
Roadworks Ahead
It's s sign that the roadworks have been there way too long when the sign looks like this 
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New food technologies could release 80% of the world’s #farmland back to nature
"Food production, #biodiversity and #CarbonStorage in ecosystems are competing for the same land.
Unless food production is tackled head-on, we are left resisting inevitable change, often with no hope of long-term success."
The ConversationNew food technologies could release 80% of the world’s farmland back to natureCellular and microbial agriculture can make the same amount of food on a fraction of the land.
"Known as 'forever chemicals' because of their longevity, these toxic contaminants are now being detected, sometimes at high levels, on farmland across the country, including in Texas, Maine, Michigan, New York and Tennessee. In some cases the chemicals are suspected of sickening or killing livestock and are turning up in produce. Farmers are beginning to fear for their own health."
The New York Times · Something’s Poisoning America’s Land. Farmers Fear ‘Forever’ Chemicals.
Morten Monday morning commute
#fields #farmland #landscape #haybales #farm #clouds #vintagefilter #dkpix #danskerpix
#fields #farmland #landscape #haybales #farm #clouds #vintagefilter #dkpix #danskerpix
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Aerial Panorama
This is an old unused quarry literally just down the street from home.
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Bid to save early #rewilding site that hosts rare #nightingales and #TurtleDoves
#Conservationists have launched a £1.5 million appeal to buy #farmland that was left to #nature 37 years ago
by Emily Beament
Tuesday 18 June 2024
"A farm left to nature years before 'rewilding' rose to prominence has become a unique and important site for wildlife, say conservationists launching a bid to save it.
"The owner of Strawberry Hill, near Bedford, stopped farming his land 37 years ago, with once-arable fields reverting to #scrubland that is now a haven for a host of #wildlife including threatened nightingales, #cuckoos and turtle doves.
"But the 150-hectare (377-acre) site has no official designations or protections, and following the owner’s death, there were fears the land could be sold and returned to agriculture.
"After gaining a temporary stay of execution for the site, the #WildlifeTrust for Beds, Cambs and Northants (#BCN) has raised enough money to buy half the land.
"Now the conservation charity is launching a £1.5 million appeal to secure the whole site, saving the habitat and its rich wildlife and providing a 'unique' opportunity to have a decades-long head start on rewilding the land for nature."
The Independent · Bid to save early rewilding site that hosts rare nightingales and turtle doves
Check out #Seawater Solutions in #Spain, a European company pioneering a revolutionary form of #agriculture: growing productive plants in #saltwater. They estimate that with perennial halophytes, they can transform 2 billion acres of salty wasteland into productive #farmland #sustainability #food #permaculture #ecosystems #farming
My Ph.D thesis is now public!
The Long Grab: Dispossession in Southeastern Kitchi Sipi Valley, from Colonization to Financialization
#cdnpoli #landgrab #farmland #settlercolonialism #financialization
https://ruor.uottawa.ca/items/96699d9f-c27f-4b74-9b1b-7238bcbe55f1
ruor.uottawa.caThe Long Grab: Dispossession in Southeastern Kitchi Sipi Valley, from Colonization to FinancializationThis thesis examines changes in the distribution of farmland in the southeast of the Kitchi Sipi (Ottawa) Valley between 2000 and 2017. It originally hypothesized that financialization would be the leading cause of a recent wave of farmland grabs in the area based on the findings of existing literature, which observed that financial investment companies are primarily responsible for the phenomenon (Gheller, 2018; Sommerville, 2018; Le Billon and Sommerville, 2017; Desmarais et al., 2015). The land distribution study conducted for this thesis suggests that the farmland grabbing that recently occurred in the study area was primarily led by existing large-scale corporate family farms. This is different from the land distribution study of Desmarais et al. (2015), which showed that financial investment firms were the dominant actors recently engaged in farmland grabbing in Saskatchewan. This suggests that there are a variety of different actors involved in the recent farmland grab phenomena in so-called Canada that have not been studied, which invites deeper theoretical consideration of the broader political-economic processes at play. The thesis therefore presents a “long grab” theoretical framework to explain how different kinds of settler-capitalist elites are able to command large holdings of farmland in a particular area. This thesis conducts case study and long-term historical materialist analysis of the development and evolution of farming and property rights in the study area to explain the absence of financial investment firms buying farmland. It identifies three key political-economic factors that limited farmland accumulation by investment companies: aggressive expansion of existing commercial farms, municipal land use policies aimed at limiting urban sprawl, and the impact of urban growth on local farmland values. This analysis demonstrates that long-standing land conflicts inherent to settler-capitalist development influences what kinds of political-economic elites engage in farmland grabbing in a particular area.
Unlikely Paradise
"There were four living trees on it, lots of erosion and it was an eyesore ..." chariot pulled by cassowaries posts the wonderfully inspiring story of a group of friends who, over a period of 20 years, rehabilitated "the most degraded, clapped-out piece of farmland they could find."
https://www.metafilter.com/203210/Restoring-an-ugly-hill-into-an-ecosystem
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I send thanks to the buyer from Arkansas who purchased a framed canvas print of
Pine Grove -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/pine-grove-steve-henderson.html?product=canvas-print
May the image take you to a place where you hear the cry of the wild raptor birds, in an air that is fresh, crisp, clean, and free.
