Last week I had the opportunity to visit with Colorado State faculty member, Dr. Ajay Jha, who travels extensively to help create ideal small farming operations. His primary objective is to find profitable models for sustainable, nutritious, local urban and small acreage food production. He feels this is where the need is since half of [...]
Note that Big Picture Agriculture and two of her staff visited NYC for a few days last week, and this post (which is a bit off-topic) is about that. Know that three of the staff stayed home to keep this site running — one trouble-maker spent the time in the garage and two were in [...]
At present, urbanization around the globe appears to be an unstoppable trend. Architect Larson wants us to have the good things we like about cities and remove the bad things like too much space for cars and emissions. Using old-Paris as an example, neighborhoods are set up providing compact urban cell inhabitants of 20,000, or [...]
