Rescuing Snoqualmie Valley farmland from development
This is great news! I wish we could preserve the rest of what's left of Snoqualmie Valley farmland, before they turn it under for horrible, petroleum-dependent housing, the blight of American landscape.
Way to go PCC Farmland Trust!!
Organic farming takes root
...Blakely and her husband, Joe Adams, own Growing Things Farm, one of three organic farms that will take over parts of this 178 acres of land in agreements with PCC Farmland Trust, which recently purchased the property for $1.2 million to ensure that it will never be paved and will be used to grow organic food. .... (About PCC Farmland Trust)
I like this especially since it would be ideal to have very local (to Ballard (Seattle)) farmland to use in my future experiments with implementing a new type of non-sewage resource reclamation system using "earthen toilets" on a large scale in an urban setting.
The basic thrust of my premise is that we create enormous amounts of pollution and waste alarming amounts of potable water** with an extremely expensive to maintain and petroleum-dependent "sewage system." The creation of sewage is akin to the creation of toxic waste from two very valuable natural resources: compost and freshwater. Compost is an important part of healthy tilth. So, along with recycling our kitchen scraps by making compost, let's recycle our humanure to make compost!! And thereby complete the cycle of planting crops, consuming them, digesting them, composting them and returning them back to the tilth to grow more crops.
(** If the world's water supply is compared to one gallon (3.8 liters), freshwater would make up 4 ounces (118 milliters) or 3 percent, and readily accessible freshwater would make up 2 drops.)
Way to go PCC Farmland Trust!!
Organic farming takes root
...Blakely and her husband, Joe Adams, own Growing Things Farm, one of three organic farms that will take over parts of this 178 acres of land in agreements with PCC Farmland Trust, which recently purchased the property for $1.2 million to ensure that it will never be paved and will be used to grow organic food. .... (About PCC Farmland Trust)
I like this especially since it would be ideal to have very local (to Ballard (Seattle)) farmland to use in my future experiments with implementing a new type of non-sewage resource reclamation system using "earthen toilets" on a large scale in an urban setting.
The basic thrust of my premise is that we create enormous amounts of pollution and waste alarming amounts of potable water** with an extremely expensive to maintain and petroleum-dependent "sewage system." The creation of sewage is akin to the creation of toxic waste from two very valuable natural resources: compost and freshwater. Compost is an important part of healthy tilth. So, along with recycling our kitchen scraps by making compost, let's recycle our humanure to make compost!! And thereby complete the cycle of planting crops, consuming them, digesting them, composting them and returning them back to the tilth to grow more crops.
(** If the world's water supply is compared to one gallon (3.8 liters), freshwater would make up 4 ounces (118 milliters) or 3 percent, and readily accessible freshwater would make up 2 drops.)