Webdemain - Georges Garcia, le Parmentier des algues à la conquête de nos assiettes Georges Garcia et son incubateur à microalgues, la phytotière © La voie Bleue « Entre le Saint-Moret et le Tofu », c’est ainsi que Georges Garcia décrit la spiruline fraiche, une algue hyper-nutritive qu’il a décidé de faire manger à la France et au monde. Pas tenté ? Production décentralisée La phytotière se présente comme un incubateur cylindrique transparent, dans lequel un mélange d’eau, de souches et de nutriments permet de produire des algues. Georges Garcia et son équipe devant un menu à la spiruline © La voie Bleue Si la culture de spiruline et des micro-algues n’est pas nouvelle, le mode de production décentralisé d’Alg&You vise à enfin faire décoller la filière en France. « L’objectif est de permettre à chacun de se doter d’un outil pour produire de la spiruline fraiche, la plus riche en nutriments, et de renforcer la filière des spiruliniers qui compte 200 producteurs artisanaux en France », affirme Georges Garcia. Le parmentier des algues Un tartare de spiruline © La Voie Bleue
After the water is gone, the soil is gone, the crops are gone and the superweeds take over, how exactly will Americans feed their families? - NaturalNews.com Tuesday, July 08, 2014by Mike Adams, the Health RangerTags: water security, agricultural collapse, mass starvation (NaturalNews) The United States of America, like most modern nations, is a country accelerating towards agricultural collapse followed by mass starvation. At so many levels, its present-day patterns of consumption, resource extraction and environmental exploitation are physically unsustainable. But one area that merits special attention due to its imminent collapse is the subject of water security. America has historically possessed plenty of water to grow enough crops to feed not only its own citizens but even export substantial quantities of grain to the rest of the world. Unfortunately, it's also running out of water. Once again, the warnings many people first read on Natural News are now coming to pass. "The scope of this mounting crisis is difficult to overstate," reports NBC. Most Americans have no concept that water might run out.
Wikipedia - Spiruline (complément alimentaire) Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. Il existe près de 2 000 espèces de Cyanobactéries et seulement 36 espèces d'Arthrospira sont comestibles. La principale espèce actuellement offerte sur le marché est Arthrospira platensis, cultivée principalement en Californie et à Hawaï[réf. nécessaire], au Yunnan en Chine, en France seule filière artisanale au monde (environ 150 producteurs)[réf. nécessaire] ainsi qu'en Afrique (Adzopé/Côte d'Ivoire, fermes du Mali (Mopti, Ségou,...), Koudougou/Burkina Faso). La spiruline correspond à de nombreuses espèces de forme spiralée, (d'où son nom), dont les principales sont Arthrospira platensis (anciennement Spirulina platensis), Arthrospira maxima (anciennement Spirulina maxima), Arthrospira pacifica (anciennement Spirulina pacifica). Cette dernière est en réalité une appellation commerciale. Les lacs saturés de matières organiques et de soude de la ceinture intertropicale sont le milieu naturel de la spiruline. Comprimés de spiruline.
How to Grow Your Own Food Without Land Urban dwellers are absolute consumers, i.e. they buy all their needs off-the-shelf for convenience and the lack of necessary resource to produce the goods on their own. Farm produce is one of those critical healthcare needs that we need to be doing on our own considering the onslaught of genetically modified food stuffs that are in the shelves of most grocery stores today. But city dwellers don’t have space for gardening? Worry no more. It turns out, plants are not as picky as its patrons when it comes to dwelling, in fact, they like high rise installations, too. And it is not insanity to say that vertical farming probably will become the wave of the future for food production. Imagine walking into a high rise building only to find out it was actually a vertical farm. The first commercial vertical farm was built in Singapore by Jack Ng who is an entrepreneur looking to supply food to Singapore’s densely populated city without having to buy a lot of highly priced land around the city.
Small-scale gardens provide sustainable food without damaging soil - NaturalNews.com Thursday, May 22, 2014 by: Julie Wilson Tags: gardens, sustainable growing, soil damage (NaturalNews) Urban and small-scale farming is a growing trend that's healthy and sustainable for the environment. Luckily, this trend is catching on fast, not just in the U.S. but in Europe too. Today there is a waiting list of more 90,000 people attempting to acquire allotments, or plots of land used for small-scale gardening. Applicants are excited to participate in a practice that produces healthy food and is better for the environment. Alpha Galileo, the world's independent source of breaking research news, revealed soil in Britain's allotments was "significantly healthier than intensively farmed soils." The findings published in the Journal of Applied Ecology, discovered small-scale crop growing in urban areas produced "food sustainability without damaging the soil." Conventional versus organic Organic farmer, Jamey Gage, operates a small family owned farm located outside of Austin, Texas.
Row Covers – Extend Your Growing Season with Dio-Betalon Row covers have been used by farmers for years to extend the season of summer crops and to get their Fall/Winter crops off to a good start. In the video, Protecting Plants From Frost, Tricia demonstrates how to build a low tunnel using PVC pipe covered with the row cover, Agribon. Another product that can be used for a low tunnel or as a floating row cover, is the very durable, Dio-Betalon (similar to Tuffbell). Durable and Long-lasting Dio-Betalon is a high-tech material made out of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA), a bit more expensive that the other row covers, but it lasts longer and is extremely durable. Frost Protection – Dio-Betalon is hygroscopic, which means it is able to attract and hold water. Heat Preserving – prevents radiant cooling during the night. High Permeability – very porous, so water can pass through. Light Penetration/Transparency – allows more light through than the heavy weight Agribons, about 90% +! Protect Your Veggies Over the Winter
How To Grow Hundreds Of Potatoes In One Barrel | Homestead & Survival Want to grow potatoes this year? Lots of them in one barrel? Well, Timothy Hurst shares his simple 4-step method to do just that. You can even plant a mixed variety of potatoes so your crop will be diverse. 1. If you don’t have a 50-gallon trash barrel or a half whiskey barrel then consider the Victorian Potato Barrel, or our favorite, the Island Grow Pots. After you’ve selected your planter, then you’re ready to continue on with Tim’s final three steps.
Humic Acid's Role in Improving Soil Quality and Plant Growth The term "humus" dates back to the time of the Romans, when it was frequently used to designate the soil as a whole. It was later applied to the organic matter of soils and composts, or to different fractions of this organic matter; as well as, to complexes formed from a variety of natural organic substances. Humus compounds are complex natural organic compounds that are formed in soils from plant residues, by a process of "humification". Humus materials are complex aggregate of brown to dark colored amorphous substances, which have originated during the decomposition of plant and animal residues by microorganisms, under aerobic and anaerobic conditions, in soils, composts, peat bogs, and water basins. "Humic acid " is the commercial term often used to refer to the combined humic and fulvic acid content found in these naturally occurring deposits. Humic acid is known to be among the most bio-chemically active materials found in soil. Why Use Humic Acid? How Does Humic Acid Improve Soil?
The Underground, Year Round, Ever Growing Greenhouse! Make no mistake, the world is coming into major transition and change. Economies are inflating like helium filled balloons, debt is escalating like runaway trains and it's unlikely to be long before big shifts happen. If not the back end of this year, then I would say certainly in the next three. That's why growing your own food is important, especially as GMO, chemtrails and pesticides continue to decimate topsoils and contaminate the food chain. The "Walipini" I came across this idea recently on Wake Up World. "The Walipini, in simplest terms, is a rectangular hole in the ground 6′ to 8′ deep covered by plastic sheeting. Energy and light from the sun enter the Walipini through the plastic covered roof and are reflected and absorbed throughout the underground structure. Designed to inspire Here's a video from LaPaz, Bolivia, narrated in Spanish but with great music accompaniment! If you'd like to see some other general designs, here's a very useful website I came across...
10 Interesting Facts About Earthworms By Roger Di Silvestro As winter draws to a close, gardeners begin their spring migration into the outdoors, leaving winter dens behind and coming into contact with the harbingers of the shifting seasons: shovels, hoes and trowels. Oh, and earthworms. Anyone prone to working the soil knows that upturning the earth exposes these shiny, wigging, pinkish-brownish tubular life forms, sending them thrashing in hasty retreat into the comforting, moist darkness of the soil. Earthworms: A Garden’s Friend or Foe? That depends. 1. One of the most familiar of them, the sort you may see in your garden, is commonly known as the night crawler (it typically surfaces after dark), the angleworm (its makes popular bait for fishing) or the rain worm (it leaves waterlogged soil after storms). 2. 3. 4. 5. They mate on the surface of the earth, pressing their bodies together and exchanging sperm before separating. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Visit EcoWatch’s BIODIVERSITY page for more related news on this topic.