Non-Petroleum Farming

Ecologically friendly farming is both productive and efficient.

We spend billions of dollars annually on pesticides and fertilizers, polluting our waterways, ecosystems and our foods, and increasing expense of agriculture and reliance on oil. There is a better way to farm.

Greenhousing and ecological pest control can replace the majority of pesticides and have very low upkeep costs and large secondary benefits. Using greenhouses can extend the growing season and control pests. Building large Walmart-sized greenhouses can enable us to grow even tropical foods locally in most places, and allow for more intensive irrigation systems, humidity control, shade control, and water recycling. You could grow lovely crops from March to November in a well controlled greenhouse.

Greenhouses can also provide an excellent 'home base' for an ecological control system. By making a greenhouse a homeland environment for predator pestkillers, farmers can replace undesirable and expensive pesticides with dragonfly farms, apiaries, batboxes, and other natural living forms of pest control. Ecological pesticide is the next generation of pest killers, and they take care, feed, and reproduce by themselves indefinately if you give them the chance.

Using these two methods, America can reduce its reliance on oil products, provide tastier, fresher, more delicious and cheaper foods, and promote ecological wellness and make farms a downright nice place to be, year round.

Feeding livestock natural diets of nutritious hay instead of cheap corn can save difficulty and dilemna of using animal growth hormones, powerful antibiotics and medical treatments, and coming away with less healthy animals producing less healthful milk and meat. The same can be said of chickens. Ecological cycles on a farm are naturally formed and should be utilized for best health and production! Farmers can produce more organic foods cheaply by using these methods.

Food companies, cease hydrogenation. It is better to use natural butter than a hydrogenated oil. Consumers have stated that they prefer non-hydrogenated organic foods. They also prefer foods with less salt and fat content and fewer or no preservatives or artificial flavorings or colorings. Genetically modified foods are also off the table.

Sustainable humanitarian and ethical farming and food producing practices make the best, tastiest, healthiest, and most cost effective meal man can achieve.