Living Green – Eco Living By Design

Sustainable Agriculture - Sustainable agriculture integrates three main goals: environmental stewardship, economic profitability, and social and economic equity. In this section we explore an integrated approach to sustainable agriculture. Sustainability rests on the principle that we must always meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet future needs. Therefore, we see the ongoing stewardship of both natural and human resources of primary importance. Stewardship of human resources includes both present and future consideration of social responsibilities such as working and living conditions of laborers, the needs of rural communities associated with agriculture, and of course consumer health and safety. Stewardship of land and natural resources involves maintaining or enhancing these vital resource bases both thr the short and for the long term. In this section we will be examining the issues and best practices surrounding sustainable agriculture.

How an inner-city kid is becoming a farmer

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Written by Adam Mohammed

There exists in Canada, and about 90 or so other countries, chapters of an organization called WWOOF, which stands for either ‘Willing Workers On Organic Farms’ or ‘World-Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms’ depending where you are. In each place, it is a networking organization of sorts: WWOOF-Canada is a database of 4-500 rural households who take in interns/apprentices on a transient basis. On par, wwoof-hosts ask for a 30-40 hour-work-week in exchange for meals, housing, the opportunity to learn ecological gardening and farming techniques hands-on, and the value of being out in the countryside or small towns with tonnes of fresh air.

No Freeze Water Hose

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Written by Garnet McPherson

Watch for our upcoming article about a water hose developed by inventor Roger Welsh that will not freeze in the dead of winter, requires no electricity or other energy costs and does not need to be buried. Impossible you say? That is what we thought until we tested this amazing hose system.