Horticulture and Global Warming

This is a short post, it was just a scary comment so I figured I would share.

During my urban agriculture capstone class, the heads of various departments sat in. After having a discussion of the future of agriculture, and the uncertainty of the future, the head of the horticulture department at UW Madison admitted "last summer we were told to throw out our books on agriculture, we had literally never seen anything like it before"

Take that combined with the fact that only 1% of the population now farms and 40% of farmers are over 55, and knowledge of farming is being lost at an alarming rate. If we are to deal with the problems of drought and climate change, we're going to have to capture that precious knowledge before it disappears forever.

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