Banking on the Seaweed Rush
Seaweed farmers promise to feed us, combat climate change, support coastal communities, provide wildlife habitat, and more. Can seaweed do it all?
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World Water Day: Accelerating Change
So today on World Water Day, you be that change. By all means, learn about the real issues. Fix the leaks in your life. If you have the resources, make yourself and your community more water-resilient.
Post-Brexit Farm Policy – Outlook Across Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales
What’s on the cards for farm policy in the UK nations post-Brexit and post-CAP? In the first part of this series, Ursula Billington reported on the state of play for England’s small-scale farmers and horticulturists. Here in Part 2, she talks to representatives from the Landworkers Alliance to gauge the situation in the devolved nations
Fantasy Acres: Will Climate Change Actually Create More Northern Farmland?
The potentials of Siberian farmlands are vastly overrated, and their risks are dangerously understated. Though the future of agriculture must adapt to overcome the challenges of climate change and avoid famine, our savior does not lie in the far north.
Going with the Grain
Recent years have seen rising interest in community-scale grain growing. Part food security experiments, part community art projects, part research initiatives that could just turn out to be vital to our food future,
The Struggle Against Fossil Fuels: “Farm Bill” Politics Is Now Climate Politics
Members of Congress have begun drafting the 2023 “Farm Bill,” and they’ll be wrangling over it through most of the year. This legislation, passed into law anew every fifth year or so since the 1930s, has had far-reaching influence on food and farming in the United States.
The living –the boundless relation between humans and nature
In May our new book Det levande (The Living) will be published in Sweden. As can be gleaned from the title, the book’s theme is the relation between us and the rest of the living nature.
A Tale of Two Garden Books
There are all types of gardens. I think Silver does a better job of teaching this important lesson even as he restricts his list of plant allies to a few that work for him. That is the point.
Life after Extinction (Rebellion): From raising the alarm to starting a farm
Professor Bendell just started an organic farm, focusing on resilience to both climate and societal collapse, and facilitating others to do the same. I’m beginning to see why.
Worried about fruit & veg rationing? Let’s grow our own, in our communities.
But we need to start considering food production as normal as housework. We could start with our gardens, but better is to club together in networks and press for participation and support from organisations with resources and power, including local authorities.
Why is there a shortage of tomatoes in the UK?
Brexit, bad weather and rising energy prices have a role to play, but our UK growers have been left out on a limb. Like a glasshouse half empty, this crisis is exposing deep systemic problems in our food system that need addressing. Sustain takes a look.
Expanding Regenerative Agriculture through Open Source Technologies
Dorn Cox is a family farmer who has long been in the vanguard of improving regenerative agriculture with open source technologies.