This week a friend and aquaponics colleague sent me a link to an NPR “Salt Food Blog” summary of an “All Things Considered” radio broadcast titled “Facing Planetary Enemy #1 – Agriculture”.  Both the broadcast and blog post were focused on just-released findings of a University of Minnesota led team of scientists and researchers.  Their [...]

In the past couple of weeks three events have transpired that all fall under the heading of food safety, aquaponics, and how the public perceives the two. 1)      The E. coli outbreak in Europe highlights yet again the risks in our current food supply system. In an excerpt from a NYT article run June 6, [...]

In the wine-infused post-dinner conversation with an out of town house guest this week, a rather profound statement was made.  Our guest said “we need to quiet our cleverness” in response to some branch of our conversation.  “Wow…that is quite an interesting thing to say” was my response, or at least that is how I [...]

The Farmer’s Market has been a central human tradition through much of our history. Farmers and merchants bring their produce and wares to the town market square on market day and serve their neighbors, exchanging food for currency. In the middle of the last century the Green Revolution, the flight to suburbia, and our new [...]

Have you ever seen a video that so blew you away that when it ended your mind started racing to figure out how to share it with the most number of people possible?  I just had that experience this morning, so after sharing this video with the community site, Facebook, and Twitter, I am now [...]