Flowers of the Food Forest: Reciprocity and the Obligation of Gifts
By Dan Allen, Resilience.org
“Action on behalf of life transforms. Because the relationship between self and the world is reciprocal, it is not a question of first getting enlightened or saved and then acting. As we work to heal the earth, the earth heals us.”
300 Million Poets: Amateur Poetry and Our Imminent Reconnection to the Land
By Dan Allen, Resilience.org
How do we live our lives, enmeshed as we are in this increasingly-toxic soup of early-stage civilization collapse, to make the most of today and perhaps bestow upon our children a livable tomorrow? And the answer for me comes down to strengthening relationships.
Baby Trees on the Winter Solstice
By Dan Allen, Resilience.org
I planted them with the hope That my foolish culture will soon desist in its Suicidal efforts to sever the ties Between humans and the Earth
Lessons from a Young Food Forest: Taking Stock of My 12-year Permaculture Adventure
By Dan Allen, Resilience.org
How many humans does it take to re-invent agriculture? Just one…you! Or me! So that’s what I’m trying to do. Here are some of the things I’ve learned over the past 12 years.
Resilience Reflections with Dan Allen
By Dan Allen, Resilience.org Staff, Resilience.org
I somewhat slowly learned that I was more the conductor than the builder of the farm; more the gentle nudger & potential inspiration for my family and community than the task-master.
Come on Home!: Ecological Agriculture and Sixteen Wonderful Farms that Point the Way
By Dan Allen, Resilience.org
This essay uses over a dozen working farms across the country (& a few other countries) to illustrate some of the key principles of the ecologically-based agriculture that will be required in the transition ahead. …The next steps are up to you, kid.
Growing Fruit in a Nuthouse: Designing Our Orchards for Economic Collapse and Climate-Destabilization
By Dan Allen, Resilience.org
Moving forward, agriculture as we have known it will no longer be a given. We will need to lean heavily on perennial crops such as fruit and nut trees. But how can we increase the chances of getting a living baseline yield from these orchards?
The man who ate himself: An agricultural fable
By Dan Allen, Resilience.org
The beetle sighed. "This is all something you once knew, I think. It is something all beings have known from the beginning of time...It is a pity, this forgetting of yours."