To better understand regenerative agriculture, it helps to be a systems thinker. Why? It takes system thinking to better understand how the water, carbon, nitrogen and nutrient cycles are interdependent and interconnected through photosynthesis, decomposition, the microbial carbon pump, and … Continue reading Quality Agriculture- A book review
Western culture tends to split everything into binary opposing pairs. Such dialectical thinking permeates our thought process. So we have good versus evil, liberals versus conservatives, left versus right, East versus West, rural versus urban, black versus white, etc. Such … Continue reading Beyond Grass and Grains – Part One: Nutrition
I recently listened to a very interesting conversation on the Doctor’s Farmacy podcast with Dr. Uma Naidoo about nutritional psychiatry. I actually found this discussion interesting enough to buy Dr. Naidoo’s new book, This Is Your Brain on Food: An … Continue reading This is your brain on food- A book review
Back in May of 2015, I wrote this article, Understanding water footprint numbers, after spending a month corresponding with the organization generating these numbers: WaterFootprint.org. Prior to this correspondence and writing this article (now posted on my blog), like many … Continue reading More on water footprints
Will, . Loved your most recent blog post: Will’s Wisdom: Think About This When You Eat an Impossible Burger. I call burgers made from beef from holistically grazed ranches “regenerative burgers”. Conversely, I refer to the plant based analogs from … Continue reading An open letter to Will Harris at White Oak Pastures
“… all living systems are complex – i.e., highly nonlinear – networks …” Fritjof Capra CH4= Methane, CO= Carbon monoxide, CO2= Carbon dioxide, OH = hydroxyl radical There’s a fundamental problem with methane analysis, and that is most methane analysis … Continue reading Methane: Accounting for both sides of the scale
(Above photograph from the Kansas Farmers Union) – Just below is a post I read on Facebook by agronomist Dale Strickler, who I recently quoted in a couple recent blog entries. I’m sharing now so that hopefully this post will … Continue reading Guest post: 10 points on land management by Dale Strickler
Okay so let’s get this straight in George Monbiot’s techno-optimistic scenario…. proteins and carbs are created via precision fermentation in brewing tanks requiring infrastructure, blue water and energy. These proteins and carbs (plus some additional minerals, antibiotics and growth factor) … Continue reading Techno-optimism run amok… George Monbiot’s latest delusion
Growing up north of Chicago with family in Southern Illinois, as a child, meant many hours spent being driven down state and back upstate gazing at miles and miles of soybean fields for as far as the eye could see. … Continue reading Soy 101
Many (not all) vegans tend to repeatedly make two false claims: B12 is routinely given to cattle Soil is a primary source of B12. Sadly, these false claims have become new “truths” in much of the vegansphere. So it came … Continue reading To B12 or to not to B12: Cobalt & cobalamin
Here’s we go again. so-called nutritional “scientists” and doctors are out there using relative risk to fear monger against eating red and processed meat. They’re more vociferous than usual since their weak science has been called out for what it … Continue reading The relative risk con game
A friend recently emailed me the following question: Is there a limit to how much carbon soil can hold which then prevents the kind of sequestration that would be needed to reverse climate change? Or, in other words, does soil … Continue reading Soil carbon saturation: Myth or reality?
