The traditional method used to grow rice beings around March, when seeds are planted in a sprouting bed. The bed is filled with soft mud and water to a depth of about knee-high. Unhusked rice seeds are planted, almost at random. Many seeds are planted in the bed. Several weeks later, sprouts appear, looking very […]

“If you go to Mars in a titanium tube, you’ve lost the script,” declared John D. Liu, an award-winning film director and ecologist in a keynote address on “Restoring the Planet” at the Macrobiotic Summer Conference in late July. “We need to restore the Earth, not Mars. We need full employment and food security for