Tag Archives: sustainable agriculture

Saturday links

Posted on November 30, 2013 by tikiwanderer

Every Saturday’s post on AgriTapestry is a collection of agriculture, agritecture, urban farming and gardening related links, often stories that have come up during the week. Here’s this week’s: DNA tests take the guesswork out of breeding easycare sheep (Sheep … Continue reading →

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Cucumbers to tell us about their soil

Posted on November 12, 2013 by tikiwanderer

Healthy soil contains a good microbial community – but we don’t know that much about how soil microbes change over a growing season. Sandrine Makiela at CQU has been researching the topic for a while, studying soil communities and their … Continue reading →

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More on Enrich, the Eureka Prize winners

Posted on October 6, 2013 by tikiwanderer

Back in early September, a collaboration of researchers won the Eureka Prize for Sustainable Agriculture for their body of work on a project called Enrich. Here’s a little more about it. The Enrich project started in 2004 with the aims … Continue reading →

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UNCTAD’s Trade and Environment Review 2013 released

Posted on September 26, 2013 by tikiwanderer

The Trade and Environment Review 2013 by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) is subtitled ‘Wake up before it is too late: Make agriculture truly sustainable now for food security in a changing climate’, so as you’d … Continue reading →

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A little bit about Syria

Posted on September 8, 2013 by tikiwanderer

Syria is one of those countries I forget about sometimes. I can’t always remember where it is on a map, and talk about the civil war had me thinking “Wasn’t that last year?”.  Ah, the joys of living in a … Continue reading →

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The 2013 Eureka Prizes

Posted on September 5, 2013 by tikiwanderer

The brightest and best of Australian science hit the red carpet last night for the annual Eureka Awards. As one winner said, everyone there is a winner, and the finalists are all equally deserving of the prizes. It’s all good … Continue reading →

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How I began to learn weedscaping

Posted on August 14, 2013 by tikiwanderer

I grew up with the idea that weeds were a problem. And, on an orchard farm, they can be. November was always the month when the ground was still too wet to slash, but there was enough warmth and water … Continue reading →

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Feed-efficient bulls, grazing native shrubs, transforming our ag systems and safeguarding groundwater – Eureka Prize finalists announced

Posted on August 4, 2013 by tikiwanderer

The Australian Museum Eureka Prizes are our country’s most comprehensive science prizes. Finalists for the seventeen prizes were announced on Friday, the winners will be announced on the 4th of September. Four finalists related to the landcare/agriculture arena caught my … Continue reading →

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