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Category Archives: Backyard animals
$1 million prize promotes insect farming
The rich get organics and the poor get diabetes– now insects! That’s the dark way to look at this amazing win by McGill business students over 10,000 competing teams from around the world. Bill Clinton awarded the prize. To meet … Continue reading
Very cool swimming pool converted to aquaponic farm in Arizone
Check out how this young family found food abundance by turning the empty pool in their Arizona suburban home into a solar-powered “interplay of chicken droppings, algae sludge, tilapia fish, miniature goats, greens and clay pellets… a damned fine feast—with … Continue reading
Posted in Aquaponics, Backyard animals, Food security, Investing in food, Urban farmers
Tagged aquaponics, desert, goats, solar power, swimming pool
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It’s inevitable: domestic hunting is next
A Sun article about urban hunters reveals a startling jump in the number of people who want to learn how to hunt so they can source their own food more ethically than buying it from an industrial slaughterhouse. But really, … Continue reading
Posted in Backyard animals, Industrial farming, Urban farmers
Tagged deer, ethical hunting, geese, rabbits
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