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Dear Reader,
While a few of us might fantasize about trading in our city lives for a pastoral existence on a farm, most of us never truly make the leap. Increasingly, though, we’re bringing a farm life of sorts to our urban lives.
Consider CropSwap LA’s so-called “grassroots revolution,” whereby South LA lawns are transformed into “flourishing micro farms.” The idea is to encourage anyone with space to use it to grow food, helping to create food security and feed families. Where there’s empty space, CropSwap says, there can be healthy, homegrown food.
But it’s not just in our yards that we can challenge the conventional idea of farming. Solar farms, too, are revealing some surprising shifts in what a healthy ecosystem looks like.
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“Here’s the thing: to our untrained eye, a corn field looks more “natural” than an array of solar panels,” writes author and activist Bill McKibben. “But a corn field is a biological desert — basically there are no pollinators there at all (corn is self-pollinating), because they are sprayed with pesticides and herbicides. Put up some solar panels, and add some plants that only need to be mowed once a year or so (sometimes with sheep) and you see an explosion of life.”
Solar panels provide shade and cover for all kinds of species, McKibben explains, including loads of the insects that prop up biodiversity. So though these solar farms may not look like the storybook pastures we’re used to, they’re often more likely to deliver a happily ever after.
Shadily,
Dot
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