Apple Abundance in Chesterfield
At this time of the year, many Transition groups gather apples that wouldn’t otherwise be harvested, and make sure they can be eaten and enjoyed.
Food & Water featured
CAP Social Conditionality: A Game Changer for Farm Workers?
In a new CAP that largely maintains the status quo, social conditionality emerges as one of the few truly innovative elements. But is it going to be a real game-changer?
Review: Kayaking with Lambs
Kayaking with Lambs is an easy book to read, but a hard one to review, because it doesn’t really have a trajectory; it doesn’t build to a conclusion.
Transforming suburbia
There are many more positive stories about social, economic and environmental regeneration from suburbia, urban and rural locations from all over the country. A preferred future is within reach, sooner than later. The more the better.
In praise of my co-workers: (or – all I know about chickens in 12 parts)
The chickens I have known have never disappointed me. They are the cornerstone of my no-tech, no expense, off-the-grid farm backup system.
Access to Land: Looking to Europe to Secure Local Farmland? Part 1
It is impossible to focus on the re-territorialisation of food systems without looking at how urban communities access agricultural land in rural areas.
The wholeness of the word: ‘Regenesis’ as myth, Part II
Myths speak through individual authors and are given definition by them, but they’re painted on a bigger canvas than any one person.
The Wisdom of Fungi Inspires Community Conservation
These mycophiles envision a massive shift in our society’s relationship with the more-than-human world—a reknitting of ourselves into webs of life and death, reciprocity and mutual obligation.
Supporting pollinators
I don’t tell other people what to do very often, but I am telling you all to do this: don’t buy anything with pesticides in its history and do everything you can to make your part of the world a habitat for more than humanity. Because anything less will not support even humans for very long.
Food Security, Food Sovereignty, and Collective Action During the War in Ukraine
Small farmers, rural activists and scientists came together to discuss and develop their own proposition for the post-war reconstruction of Ukraine, where they suggested concrete measures to help create a fair, healthy and sustainable food system in Ukraine.
Letter From The Farm | Wandering In Quest Of Balance
Overall, failure of public authorities to accommodate multifunctional projects like those of Chiara can further exacerbate a larger trend in Italy towards a type of farm diversification that exploits capital and land, instead of valorising labour, quality food, and nature.
The Ladakhi story in a grain
In the coming together of the multiple spokes of the wheel of Ladakhi culture, I found hope. Hope, seeing people still carrying remnants of a past they will not allow the death of.
