Food & Water

Philadelphia Orchard project fruit tree

Hot? Hungry? Step inside these food forests.

Volunteers, school teachers, and urban farmers in cities across the country are planting fruit and nut trees, berry bushes, and other edible plants in public spaces to create shade, provide access to green space, and supply neighbors with free and healthy food.

March 27, 2024

Cortijo El Manzano

Letter From The Farm | Cooking With The Lights Off – Ingredients of Rural Resilience

After his experience living and volunteering on the farm in February, Matteo reflects on what El Manzano can teach us about some key ingredients of rural resilience: housing, labour and energy. 

March 26, 2024

water

World Water Day March 22, 2024

So learn where your water is flowing from and where it is flowing to. How do you affect groundwater viability when you turn on the tap? Ultimately, every drop that flows down the drain is lost to the ocean. So what amount of rainfall recharge is available to groundwater in your region — and is it enough?

March 25, 2024

Storck harbour scene

World trade in food is not about feeding the hungry

The higher proportion of food that is globally traded, the bigger dependencies will be created, when regions that could produce their own food cease to do that.

March 21, 2024

St. Mary Reservoir

Alberta’s Brutal Water Reckoning

Alberta’s water emergency, which is also a fire emergency, was foretold by scores of water scientists. They predicted that prolonged water scarcity would hit southern Alberta hard for stubborn geographical reasons.

March 21, 2024

Duck eggs in spring

A Spring Equinox Fable

Spring affords a time to see things from a new perspective — our work, our families and friends, our passions and beliefs. The perfect time to re- examine our world. We can start over. A new beginning.

March 20, 2024

El Manzano goats

Letter From The Farm | A Flamenco Approach to Rural Resilience

The story of El Manzano can evoke a ‘flamenco’ approach to rural resilience, which is rooted in the living reality of peoples’ stories, and not in empty political frameworks and academic foresights.

March 18, 2024

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