How nitrogen fertilizers changed the food system. Part 1.
Nitrogen (N) is on the one hand an essential nutrient for all life forms and the building block for proteins, and on the other hand a pollutant causing many negative environmental and human health impacts.
May 21, 2024
The Indigenous Growers Reviving Hemp’s Deep Roots
From the banks of Wounded Knee Creek to the White Earth reservation, this spring, more seeds will be planted for the New Green Revolution. Bringing life back to the soil is work, but these farmers are doing it. Fields of dreams, indeed.
May 20, 2024
Eating at the Old Growth Table
At the Old Growth table, we honor the ingredients as the wisdom keepers they are. And we humbly nod to the Ancestors who have kept our birthrights and lifeways intact.
May 17, 2024
Barefoot Biodynamics: Excerpt
An immediate halt to chemical fertilizing and returning to the use of compost instead would turn degeneration into regeneration.
May 15, 2024
The methane ruminations
Methane belching by grazing ruminants should not be seen as “emissions” that have to be mitigated.
May 14, 2024
Dr. Seuss and the weight-loss drug craze
The chemical soup we live in every day is a major cause of chronic disease including obesity that no weight-loss drug can address.
May 12, 2024
Cooking Sections’ Singular Stew of Art, Activism, and Local Food
What impresses me about Cooking Sections’ art and activism is their ability to show that climate change is not something distant and abstract, something that politicians and experts will somehow take care of. The CLIMAVORE work shows that climate is utterly personal and local.
May 9, 2024
The Dirt On Soil
In this series we explore why soil health matters, how it’s related to our worsening climate crisis, and what individuals and communities can do to protect it.