The future is more than organic
Agriculture is intrinsically unsustainable for the same reason that it takes a toothbrush 500 years to break down in a landfill: because it wasn’t designed not to take 500 years. Likewise, we have the 20,000 square kilometer - and growing - hypoxic zone at the mouth of the Mississippi (USGS, 2009) because N and P retention on corn farms was not a design driver. Export-oriented agriculture is completely incompatible with ecological soundness, because unlike Nature, nutrients flow linearly away from the farm and don’t return - whether exported to Waterloo County or to Germany.
Farm skills checklist
The North American Bio-dynamic farm apprenticeship program, a program of the Biodynamic Association, provides an opportunity for apprentices to pursue their particular agricultural interests within the context of a comprehensive training curriculum and with greater access to networking, support, and educational resources than they would have on their own. A certificate earned through the program assures future employers that program graduates have completed all of the essential elements of apprenticeship training.
current school/farm opportunities
"let's grow mushrooms" with Roger Rabbit
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