Don’t Frack the Farm

What happens when agriculture and drilling collide? Here’s the links to a four-part series that examines some of the impacts. The original articles showed up in NOFA-NY’s bi-monthly New York Organic News  last year.

Part 1: Shale Gas Drilling Divides Pennsylvania’s Organic Community (and others)

Part 2: Losing Dairy to Drilling.

Part 3: Impacts on Crops.

Part 4: Perception and Food Safety

Turning our rural landscape into industrialized zones just to mine a few year’s worth of dinosaur fuel doesn’t make sense . Drilling on farmland hurts farmers, their livestock, and can’t help but affect our food.