YUF CSA’s 6th Newsletter Edition ‘Around the Watering Can’
YUF CSA’s sixth edition of our newsletter ‘Around the Watering Can’ is out! Sign up now on our website to receive our newsletter emailed directly to your inbox! Do you know what is going ‘Around the Watering Can’?
Here’s another quick excerpt below:
Open Pollination: Connecting Agriculture and Ecosystems
By Gwen Potter
Let’s talk about science for a few minutes. I’m not an expert, but ecology and biology are exciting topics – and unlike math (in my opinion), they really are everywhere around us.
Last year, I took a food policy course at York. I learned a lot in that class, but the idea that I’m still turning over and over is that we create an eco-agricultural system through our farming practices. You can’t draw a firm line between a “natural” ecosystem and a human-made farm: there’s constant, ongoing interaction between food crops, sometimes their wild cousins, and animals and insects. Yet, despite that, conventional farming based on hybrid seed does lead to a clearer line – and that’s cause for concern, both for us and for the ecosystem as a whole
