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Soils Continued

In my last post on soils, you may recall that the discussion centered on the impacts of chemicals on soil health. Now, to alarm you a bit more, we see that we are losing topsoil in our largest areas of farmland. While the exact numbers are not clear, and the study is less rigorous than […]

Warehouses or Farmland?

Jon Hurdle reports in NJ Spotlight about the rush to build warehouse distribution centers in the wake of the Pandemic. I suppose that is not necessarily a bad thing…if those warehouses were not being built on virgin farmland and causing deforestation of land. This is a rush to the bottom which is not unusual in […]