May 29th, 2013
Updated 05/07/2014
If you’ve already been through an economic collapse, you might know a
thing or two about how to feed your family with little money. More
importantly, you might know how to do it without pesticides, herbicides,
fungicides, and GMO seed. On a total of about 20 million acres managed
by over 35 million Russian families, Russians are carrying on an
old-world technique, which we Americans might learn from. They are growing their own organic crops - and it’s working.
According to some statistics,
they grow 92% of the entire countries’ potatoes, 77% of its vegetables,
87% of its fruit, and feed 71% of the entire population from privately
owned, organic farms or house gardens all across the country. These
aren’t huge Agro-farms run by pharmaceutical companies; these are small
family farms and less-than-an-acre gardens.
A recent report from Agro-ecology and the Right to Food says
that organic and sustainable small-scale farming could double food
production in the parts of the world where hunger is the biggest issue.
Within five to 10 years we could see a big jump in crop cultivation. It
could also take the teeth out of GMO business in the US. Read more: Small scale organic
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