by David G. Fisher | Jul 14, 2022 | Informational
This entry is part 2 of 4 in the series The Garden Food System Current IFS System Fixes Fall Short of an Optimal Solution How do we assess the viability of food system fixes? First, let’s consider what constitutes an optimal “system fix.” One of the most comprehensive...
by David G. Fisher | Jul 1, 2022 | Informational
This entry is part 1 of 4 in the series The Garden Food System How Will an Expanded GFS Impact the IFS? Suppose, just suppose, that at some point self-sufficiency gardens began to supply, say, 20% of all our food. How would that affect the industrial food system,...
by David G. Fisher | Jun 27, 2022 | Informational
Much of the discourse around the industrial food system—and how to make it more sustainable—hinges on the six untrue but largely unquestioned narratives discussed here. Together, they present a decidedly distorted picture about how the U.S. and the world produces and...
by David G. Fisher | Apr 20, 2022 | Informational
The hand-wringing was oh, so predictable. In March (2022), ominous headlines began to warn of impending doom wrought by the loss of grains, sunflower oil, and fertilizer exports from Russia and Ukraine: War threatens to cause a global food crisis – NY Times War takes...
by David G. Fisher | Apr 7, 2022 | Informational
I say: If we wanted to, we could grow enough food on our lawns to feed about 90% of our population. You say: You’ve got to be kidding, right? I say: Nope, I’m not. And the reason is that numbers don’t lie. See if you agree. Start with the baseline data of what one...
by David G. Fisher | Mar 15, 2022 | Informational
What a bracing discovery for self-sufficiency gardens! I just found that in 2008 Leonid Sharashkin, a Russian grad student at the University of Missouri, did his PhD research on “The Socioeconomic and Cultural Significance of Food Gardening in the Vladimir Region of...
