Food & Water

Flooding from Hurricane Fred

Hurricanes don’t stop at the coast – these mountain towns know how severe inland flood damage can be, and they’re watching Helene

For communities, preparing for these future risks requires learning from past floods but also recognizing that future storms may produce flooding that goes beyond the scale of anything seen before.

September 26, 2024

Ansembourg garden

Luxembourg | A Good Gardener is a Teacher and Politician

A master gardener and co-founder of the SEED association for the preservation and use of the region’s traditional seed varieties, Frank Adams has long been involved in the legislative battle waged by seed savers to gain recognition for the necessity and specific nature of their work.

September 24, 2024

pumpkins

Harvest Home

Even if this isn’t the end of the harvest or the end of the year, it is the end of the season of growth. It is just on the cusp of the time of contraction and repose, the time of death for many short-lived beings. So this is a natural time to think on the cycles of life.

September 23, 2024

book cover

Taking stock

But for sure we’ve got to do something different to avert the present suicidal and ecocidal course of our food system. I’ve made the case in my two recent books for agrarian localism as the best something different option.

September 23, 2024

Feed Black Futures

Reclaiming food sovereignty: How Feed Black Futures is challenging structural racism through food justice

Feed Black Futures breathes life into Hamer’s words by training participants to start and nurture backyard, apartment, and community gardens — and to advocate for food sovereignty policies and practices that enable marginalized communities to gain access to fresh food production and equitable food distribution.

September 19, 2024

Coy wolf

We Need Predators!

We need to foster balance even if that means that sometimes careless pet keepers will lose their cat to a hunting owl, even if we have to re-train ourselves to live with coyotes by not putting garbage outside where they can eat it rather than the rats, even if we have to hold regular deer hunts, rabbit culls and autumn feasts that feature large, fattened rodents — because we are predators also.

September 17, 2024

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Urban futures, rural futures

Claims that existing (or augmented) patterns of urbanism are more pro-social and pro-nature than rural alternatives appeal to people’s contrarian nature. And since most people live in urban areas, especially in the rich countries, it also tells them what they want to hear…

September 16, 2024

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