Sunday, September 30, 2018

M6.4 Blog: Industrial Farming

I learned a lot from this video about bees. I especially liked the section on bees being ancient and sacred among some cultures. I also appreciate the highlight in bees primarily being a female. 
I learned a lot about the pesticides and the connection from WWI. I had no idea the farm lands that were still left from their chemicals, which we still use as farmland today. I was not aware of the The International Bee conference, which farmers from all over the world come together and learn how to pass laws that help them regulate the chemical use and help save their bees.  I think this is amazing to join together and bouncing ideas off of each other to unify laws and agree that they need to find a way around the chemicals. 

Utilizing the farm factory website, (my location is San Mateo County) the closest farm factories are Santa Cruz , which is color coded as "moderate." The extreme farm factories are found in Sonoma County. 

I do my best in composting! But ever since we are re-doing our backyard, we have stopped because I have no other place to put our scraps. We also have a problem with wild cats getting into our backyards and nibbling on the scraps. So we have stopped ever since. I would like to continue composting! 

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