Biodiversity vs Monoculture: Small organic farms like Rick Knoll’s are able to eliminate their reliance on petrochemical-based fertilizers and pesticides. The results are fewer pollutants, less environmental degradation, and cleaner air. And by using cover cropping and other soil fertilization principles they are able to sequester carbon and keep topsoil—which is carbon heavy—from being lost into the atmosphere, which also contributes to climate change. Industrial agriculture equals monoculture; small farms equal biodiversity. Photograph shot in Brentwood, CA, by Douglas Gayeton, December 3, 2010. View Gayeton’s Lexicon of Sustainability.
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The film “Symphony of the Soil” will be released this fall. It very much reveals the differences between biodiversity and industrial agriculture.
Scott and I (Deborah) are Slow Food members who are moving to the Gold Country about 50 minutes outside of Sacramento CA. We would like to see a chapter of Slow Money underway in the greater Sacramento area. Are there others interested or is there a group we might join?
Hi Deborah and Scott,
There is no regular group gathering in the Sacramento area yet. You may find interesting people through the Sacramento Food Co-op.
Farmer and featured entrepreneur John Bledsoe, of Bledsoe Pork, is in your area: https://slowmoney.org/national-gathering/showcase.php
If you are interested in supporting a local entrepreneur, you might start there.
The Northern California chapter meets regularly in either SF or Berkeley. Until you get a regular group going, you might want to visit for their monthly gathering. The next one is Monday, November 19th at 6pm. For details, sign up here: http://slowmoneynorcal.org/
All my best,
David