Weeds: What can they tell us about our soils?
However we proceed, we very much consider the plant bioindicator method alongside a host of other tools for deepening our connection with land.
Food & Water featured
Rural gentrification Part II: Of localists and homesteaders
Homesteading is not fundamentally a ‘movement’, as the comment I quoted earlier suggested, still less a centrally planned one. Rather it results from the failure of monopoly corporate planning, public and private, and it will grow as that failure grows.
Hogs Are Up: Review
But in his hands, we are slowly and carefully being carried out to full exposure in the fertile, fallow fields. And there we will set roots, awaiting the beginning of our next story — with digressions.
Nectar Nomad in the Land of Enchantment
The first beekeepers, farmers, ecologists, and scientists were and continue to be Indigenous peoples around the world. And so, again and again, I return to the bees and to my roots, resonating in unison.
Rural gentrification Part I: Of localists and nationalists
When localists born or made embrace or adopt a particular place to live there’s surely no reason for them to base their localism in an inherent lack of openness to people or ideas from elsewhere.
Refugio Tinti: Reflections of Nature’s Design
Apart from being a wildlife sanctuary and a permacultural model farm, the Refugio is an education and consultation center for reforestation practices and regenerative agriculture.
Going to Seed: Excerpt
The 1950s was arguably the decade that best matched a decent standard of living to a sustainable way of life.
Big farms don’t feed the world
Numerous studies have shown that small farms are not only more productive per hectare of land, but that they also protect biodiversity better, produce more diverse and more nutritious food, create more jobs and keep more people on the land.
Thinking food: What’s ‘healthy’ and ‘sustainable’?
You can be an omnivore that eats grass-fed beef and lamb, or a vegetarian enjoying plain yoghurt or go vegan and veg out on veg – just don’t make your staple diet one of ultra-processed junk food.
France | Change Is In Our Hands – Part 2
These paradigm shifts are not always easy. It’s hard work to debunk stereotypes. But the Marion and Benjamin’s determination show us that it can be done.
Vanishing crop varieties, permaculture and food forestry benefits, and three sisters gardening
By collaborating with our community members and fellow growers, and sharing a variety of crops throughout the landscape, the diversity of food will expand beyond what we’d be able to manage singlehandedly.
Why we will never run out of work
Our wants will never be satisfied in a capitalist economy, and the demand for work will never cease. They are both prerequisites for and results of the expansion of capital.
