The School That Put Local, Healthy, and Homemade on the Lunch Menu
The Village School is reinventing how a public school feeds its children.
Food & Water
Farmers’ Markets Play a Vital Role in America’s Changing Economy
Drive across America today, and there’s one thing you’re guaranteed to see more of: farmers’ markets.
The Small Moments of the Early Morning
Brian tells the story of one early morning on the farm.
Six Steps Back to the Land
I am a great fan of Colin Tudge, not least because he is an original thinker, as amply demonstrated in his latest book, Six Steps Back to the Land.
The ‘Non-GMO’ Label Doesn’t Go Far Enough: Taking Stock of GMOs and Glyphosate
The world now has 500 million acres of GMO crops, mainly soy and corn in North and South America, but also cotton in the US, China, and India, and canola, sugar beet, and alfalfa in the US and Canada.
Agroecology as a Tool for Liberation: Transforming Industrial Agribusiness in El Salvador
We say that every square meter of land that is worked with agro-ecology is a liberated square meter.
An Objector’s Guide to the English Rural Planning System
With planning permission for a permanent rural worker’s dwelling hot off the press, we now have the green light to develop the farm long-term with security of tenure.
Food and the New Urban Agenda
I believe the New Urban Agenda has the potential to start a whole new conversation about food and cities and bring a whole lot of new people up to speed with where the early adopters have been — left out standing in their field, looking for someone to talk to – for some time.
“A Crowd, a Host of Golden Chanterelles”: my Wild Mushroom Initiation
It was my first experience of wild mushroom foraging, and it was magical.
What is it About this Soil that Protects Plants from Devastating Disease?
In the same way forts have armies to protect themselves against invaders, plants growing in disease-suppressive soil have beneficial bacteria to defend themselves against parasites…
Earthcare Warrior Women
“This is a female moment in time,” observes Rev Dele, founder of the Virginia-based, Soil Souls. “The Earth and society are about to give birth to a new culture. It’s women who give birth to that which is yet unseen.”
The System of Rice Intensification and Its International Community of Practice
SRI is open-source. It does not belong to anyone, but is shared as a commons. Nobody “owns” either SRI theory or practice.
