Why do we grow food?
We have to produce more to feed a growing population – but what if it is the other way round?
food production
Australia’s drought, climate change and the future of food
There’s a reason that few people are thinking about world grain supplies. Last year saw record worldwide production of grains and record stocks of grains left over. But this year worldwide production slipped about 2 percent, owing in large part to the plunge in Australia’s production caused by an ongoing severe drought.
Viva la Producción! Urban farming in Cuba
Urban farming has gained momentum in recent years as a result of increased awareness of environmental issues and the desire to feed people living in cities sustainably.
Slow Money: Food
Extraenvironmentalist #85 focuses on the topic of GMOs in the second of our three part series from the 2014 Slow Money Gathering.
Why Grow Organic?
In this interview between Douglas Gayeton and Fred Kirschenmann, Fred explains the history of USDA organic certification, the trouble with milking 50,000 cows and why the story behind our food means more to some than third party organic certification.
Hungry for land: small farmers feed the world with less than a quarter of all farmland – report
Report shows that small farms provide most of the world’s food because they are often much more productive than large corporate farms, yet the land available to them is shrinking.
DIY Home Brewing – The Home Brewery
This article is going to explore some of the equipment, space requirements, and other resources that make for a successful and awesome DIY home brewery.
An Extended Recipe for Bread
If you see the rise, if you smell that sweet pungency and know the journey from soil to palate, if you follow the weather patterns and the turning of the seasons, the journey of a seed into a staple, you know that the journey is coming to an end.
Agroforestry: The Art of Farming With Trees
Agroforestry combines agricultural and forestry techniques to create more varied productive, profitable, healthy, and sustainable approaches to land use.
Africa’s Challenge in the 21st Century – Food Security
Africa as a whole is going to face two major problems in the 21st century: food security and adapting to climate change.
Becoming an Ecopreneur
From the Mother Earth News Fair, we hear about Life on the "Farmstead." Lisa Kivirist turns her dreams of small-scale food into a real living in Wisconsin. Lisa has tips for us all.
ROOTS, SHOOTS AND SEEDS: The Spear Carriers
Roots, Shoots and Seeds is a book about the local community food movement, set around the wide arable fields of East Anglia, following the tracks of the crops that grow in these clay and sandy soils, from barley to flax, from rapeseed to potatoes.