Shortages Threaten Farmers’ Key Tool: FertilizerÂ
By KEITH BRADSHER and ANDREW MARTIN
Published: April 30, 2008
Population growth, shrinking world grain stocks and a growing appetite for meat, particularly in the developing world, has collided with a shortage of fertilizer.
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…a shortage of fertilizer?! Now the global food markets are telling us there’s not enough shit floating around to [...]
During the discussion of how to organize our community garden out here in Bushwick, many of the older community members took issue with food composting because in the past, it has attracted rats. At the time, I felt like it would be a little rude to counter their reluctance with blaming the maintenance of the [...]
So it just dawned on me that tomorrow is EARTH DAY!
I am going to be running a vermicompost workshop at the Hope Gardens Community Center in the morning, then heading over to the Woodbine Garden to plant some seeds with student groups.
If you can’t join us out in Bushwick, here’s a list of events you [...]
