ORGANIC FOOD INITIATIVES AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION
For many years, there has been increasing support for environmental conservation. This has come from every strata of society; from …
Category: ediculture
INTERPRETING LOCAL BIODIVERSITY: AN ORGANIC PERSPECTIVE
Local Biodiversity Action Plans are currently being compiled for all regions of the U.K. as a result of recommendations made by …
VIABILITY OF NEW GROWING INITIATIVES
The viability of any food-growing project could be judged on two distinctly different levels. Attempts to guarantee supply to the …
ALLOTMENTS
Allotments and leisure gardens still provide the most common means for most people to gain access to land on which …
ECONOMICS OF ORGANIC PRODUCE
The primary economic characteristic of organic produce is its inelasticity of supply, as compared to products derived from the extraction of …
URBAN CONTEXT FOR A LOCAL ORGANIC FOOD INITIATIVE
Although towns and cities are obviously handicapped by their limitations on access to abundant growing space, they do have …
NUTRITION
Mineral levels in natural foods are declining, partly because soil is losing its mineral content, but also because the minerals …
DEFINING EDICULTURE – THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN FOOD-GROWING AND GARDENING
There are as many forms of garden as there are individual gardeners and specific sites. However, there are definite, scientific …