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Visioning County Food Production – Part Three
Monday, March 8th, 2010
Seeing County Food Production as an Integrated Whole
In Part One of this series, I proposed principles of agroecosystem design for growers to follow if agriculture is to approach sustainability in a future of declining access to the cheap energy and other inputs on which our industrialized food system relies. I said that providing [...]
Visioning County Food Production – Part Two
Monday, February 15th, 2010General Problem Areas in Sustainable Agricultural Design
In Part One of this series, I noted that providing for the local food needs of urban populations requires a design that integrates three overlapping categories of production systems: urban agriculture systems (many small islands of gardening in the city center), peri-urban agriculture (larger production areas on the immediate [...]
Visioning County Food Production – Part One
Sunday, February 14th, 2010Visioning County Food Production
by Karl North
This article is the first in a series. Papers in this series are being published at TCLocal, an organization devoted to writing about making different arrangements in human affairs in Tompkins County, New York, to address the problems of the post-petroleum era.
In this series I will attempt a preliminary vision [...]
