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Cuba’s access to oil reduced by half overnight with the fall of the Soviet Union. This is how they survived the crisis and built viable agricultural & energy models.

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If stories like this:

Feds: Millions have eaten chickens fed tainted pet food.
encourage your desire to eat organic food, then stories like this:
…in high summer of 2005, about the time I was seeing red in my kitchen, the same thing was happening to some of our county’s tomato farmers. They had learned organic [...]

I’m on an organic beekeeping email list of about 1,000 people, mostly Americans, and no one in the organic beekeeping world, including commercial beekeepers, is reporting colony collapse on this list. The problem with commercial operations is pesticides used in hives to fumigate for varroa mites and antibiotics are fed to the bees [...]