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One of the more positive views on the water crisis in California. We can build a water management system for the 21st century and we can look to Australia on how they are building theirs.

A New Water Paradigm for California A fourth year of severe drought is waking Californians to the reality of global warming and the value of our most precious resource. The state’s reservoirs are dangerously low, and the California Climate Center is projecting that rising temperatures could result in 80 percent less snow pack by the e…

"Thomas Jefferson said he didn’t think we could have democracy unless at least 20% of the population was self-supporting on small farms so they were independent enough to be able to tell an oppressive government to stuff it. It is very difficult to control people who can create products without purchasing inputs from the system, who can market their products directly thus avoiding the involvement of mercenary middlemen, who can butcher animals and preserve foods without reliance on industrial conglomerates, and who can’t be bullied because they can feed their own faces."
- Eliot Coleman

Small is beautiful (and radical) Biodiversity in action: lettuces grow at Four Season Farm. Photo: Four Season Farm This post was adapted from an address Coleman gave at this year's Eco-Farm conference in California. -------------...

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Introducing Carrot Carrot is more than a vegetable- it's an experience.