Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
When farmers face wet winters and dry summers, recharge can help store excess surface water, making it accessible during the growing season. In certain instances, like when farmlands are restored into floodplains, aquifer recharge can also double as habitat restoration for wildlife.
How can a culture of responsible foraging actually come into being? My thought is that if you are a forager, you really should give back in actual reparative ways and perhaps find ways to forage that don’t negatively impact the limited public land and rare plant species we have.
At its heart, food sovereignty is a people-led response to the existential threats and multiple crises facing agri-food systems.
Crop diversification to improve the soil microbiome is key to the approach of the Andhra Pradesh Community-Managed Natural Farming (APCNF) movement.
For me, the mountain on which I live, the animals and plants, the climate, the river and underground spring… actually the land and all it encompasses… this is also my community.
The Open Source Seed Initiative, founded in 2012, has been a key vehicle and voice in reclaiming the right to share seeds and strengthening all the benefits that flow from seed-sharing: healthier soils, empowered farmers and communities, biodiversity, more robust seed innovation.
My primary influences for navigating out of the present mess these days are distributism, civic republicanism, agrarian populism and Thomism, or maybe immanentism … which not a lot of people have heard of. One reason not a lot of people have heard of them is that we’re so caught up in mainstream modernist politics like neoliberalism and socialism that they get no airtime, which I think is regrettable.
Plastic is everywhere, and its presence in our lives has grown in the last few decades, as the oil and gas industry ramped up its production to unprecedented levels. The resulting plastic pollution crisis has now entered a new phase in the form of microplastics.
With the acquisition of 68 acres of private land, the ARP aims to heal the land and the local community—in part by stopping the prison from ever getting built.
Growing food for people while growing a little human in parallel – in my context of no family support – hasn’t been attainable so far. But it’s a luminous objective.
Therefore, a central task is to de-commodify food through multiple means, such as self-provisioning, co-producing, gifting and sharing or even just by having a stable relationship between producers and consumers.
The amount of plastic waste littering the Earth’s ocean floors could be up to 100 times the quantity floating on the surface, according to a study published this week.
