Food as Embodiment and Connection
How, then, do we remind ourselves of food’s healing elements, especially in our social connections?
Food & Water featured
Farmer, the World May Not Be Your Oyster
Oysters can be an important protein for the future and a buffer against some climate change impacts only if society can balance competing interests.
Rekindling the Practice of Cultural Burning: An Act of Climate Hope
After more than 100 years of suppressing the West’s fires, land managers and government agencies are finally warming to the idea that fire can be beneficial — and necessary — for many landscapes.
Seeding the Future: Free summit explores the latest in seed sharing, libraries & more
Are you new to seeding and interested in establishing a seed bank in your neighborhood? Immersed in the seeding world and looking to connect with other folks and deepen your networks? Perhaps you’re an agriculturist interested in the intersection of seed lending and food sovereignty. Wherever you fall on the spectrum, you won’t want to miss Seeding the Future: The 11th Annual Seed Library Summit.
A-ction, R-esilience, C-ritical Mass – Hannes Lorenzen’s Letter to 2023
Beyond the classical thematic advocacy for organic farming, animal welfare and nature conservation there is a new opportunity to embrace the climate, biodiversity, CAP, job-sharing movements – and the desire to reach a humane work-life balance.
A Taste of Home: How Ethnic Grocery Stores Create Community
While the first ethnic grocery stores—food retailers catering to a migrant or diasporic culture—in the U.S. opened up during the 19th and early 20th centuries in urban minority neighborhoods in major cities, today, such grocery stores have mushroomed around the country, wherever new migrant communities have sprung up.
Where Indigenous feminisms and food sovereignties meet
This episode of the podcast miniseries ‘A Journey Through Feminist Agroecology’ explores the encounter between Indigenous feminisms and food sovereignty as a decolonial project of reparations and reconstruction.
Nemesis
Understanding runs into economics with a solid thunk. I am tired of this stupid bird that’s squatting in my workspace and harassing me. So I think, why not just outwit him?
January: Planting an Idea.
Once we understood the intrinsic value of the natural world, not just what it contributes to our well-being, our economy and the local ecology, there was no going back.
How California could save up its rain to ease future droughts — instead of watching epic atmospheric river rainfall drain into the Pacific
All that runoff in the middle of a drought begs the question — why can’t more rainwater be collected and stored for the long, dry spring and summer when it’s needed?
Agroecology – A promising alternative to the biodiversity crisis in agriculture and industrial food systems
By working with – not against – nature, and diversifying our farms, landscapes, fishing waters and the foods we eat, agroecology supports biodiversity, contributes to the majority of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and promotes resilience. All while supporting livelihoods and some of the healthier diets on the planet.
Indigenous people may have created the Amazon’s ‘dark earth’ on purpose
With more and more greenhouse gases entering the atmosphere, making dark earth — or something like it — could be a method of mitigating climate change while supporting agriculture in the tropics.
