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Article: How Bees See, And Why It Matters
Scientists consider bees to be a keystone species. They are so important to an ecosystem that it will collapse without them. At least 90 commercially grown crops depend upon bee pollination for survival. How important is the pollination by bees? Ask an almond grower. Without bees, there would be no almonds. Apples, blueberries, cherries, avocados,…
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Video: Pollinators Under Pressure
Tree Media released a new film, Pollinators Under Pressure, about the plight of pollinators around the world and the actions we can all take to ensure their survival, and that of humans and ecosystems everywhere. Narrated by Academy Award®-winning actor and environmental activist Leonardo DiCaprio, the short film features expert voices and diverse points of…
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Video: Food Security: What is the difference
The politics and culture of food are often expressed in terms of food security and food sovereignty. These terms are often used interchangeably, even though they mean different things. Erika Allen of Chicago’s Grower Power explains that food security considers whether a person knows where their next meal is coming from, while food sovereignty defends…
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Video Resource: From Garden Warriors to Good Seeds: Indigenizing the Local Food Movement
Check out video interviews spanning across the indigenous food movement in this resource from professor Elizabeth Hoover and documentary filmmaker Angelo Baca. The video library includes regional and local examples in New Mexico. https://gardenwarriorsgoodseeds.com/video-clips/
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Article: Potential Risk to Pollinators from Nanotechnology-Based Pesticides
The decline in populations of insect pollinators is a global concern. While multiple factors are implicated, there is uncertainty surrounding the contribution of certain groups of pesticides to losses in wild and managed bees. Nanotechnology-based pesticides (NBPs) are formulations based on multiple particle sizes and types. Find out more in this research article. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6943562/
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Video: Eating Wild at Rio Fernando Park
Cebastien and Robin from DryLandsWild show the YCC how to eat a wild lunch at Rio Fernando Park.
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Video: Biomimicry Global Design Challenge 2015 – Jube
Edible insects may be one of the answers to our global food crisis. They are high in protein and rich in essential micronutrients, such as iron and zinc. They also don’t need as much space as livestock, emit lower levels of greenhouse gases, and have an extremely high feed conversion rate. The BioX team from…
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Edible NM Magazine article: Creative Pollination
Los Foodies is a community. Los Foodies is you, Los Foodies is us. Los Foodies is new Mexico cuisine. We are a group of Foodies who are constantly in search of the best that the new Mexico Food and Beverage industry has to offer. https://www.losfoodiesmagazine.com/
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Video: Biomimicry Global Design Challenge 2015 – HIPS
This team from South Africa has designed a peer-to-peer networking app called HIPS whose algorithm mimics the way that large collectives in nature, such as a flock of birds or a school of fish, function. The goal is to enable small scale intensive food production systems by providing a dynamically-distributed, peer-to-peer tool to help manage…
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Video: Biomimicry Global Design Challenge 2015 – BioNurse
A team from the Ceres Regional Center for Fruit and Vegetable Innovation in Chile has created a new way to not only help new seedlings grow, but restore degraded soils back to health. The BioNurse returns vitality to the soil by improving conditions for seedlings and exposing them to a mix of nutrients, microbiology and…
