A European Vision for Sustainability
The referendum vote in favour of Britain leaving the EU is causing uncertainty in many areas, not least in the future direction of agricultural policy.
Food & Water
These East African Countries Show How Teamwork and Technology can Thwart Illegal Fishing
Composed of the six countries that drove out the Premier, along with Madagascar and Somalia, FISH-i Africa seeks to form a united front against illegal — or “pirate” — fishing.
Review: “The Local Food Revolution: How Humanity Will Feed Itself In Uncertain Times”
Author Michael Brownlee is inciting a local food revolution, and this revolution is far more expansive, far more radical, and far more life-altering than creating a few farmers markets and promoting one’s local economy. According to Brownlee, our industrial food system “has itself become the greatest threat to humanity’s being able to feed itself.”
Crowdsourcing the Food Commons Transition: De-commodifying Food one Movement at a Time
Today, the purchasing power of any given person determines how much and which type of food he can get access to – or physically produce it by own private means- as almost every single piece of food on Earth is already a private good. Or not?
We Need Young Farmers, and Colleges Can Help
On Earth Day 2012, a group of University of California, Berkeley, students, former students, and other community members marched to the padlocked gates of UC Berkeley’s Gill Tract carrying shovels, protest signs, seedlings, and hay bales.
Meat from the Moors: Is there a Future for Upland Sheep Farming?
Does hill farming have a place in the management of moorland or as George Monbiot argues, is it the scourge of the countryside?
Preserving Family and Farming: Skyelark Ranch
There’s a lot to understand and even more to do on the ranch, but, for the Skyelark farmers, sharing this work as a family is what sustains their business.
Speaking of Death Speaks of Us
Farming has always been an intimate exercise in finding and maintaining a path to where we own the acts that sustain our lives — a path where killing (rather than thrilling) humbles and strengthens a respect for the fragility and value of life.
Growing Espalier Trees
Almost anyone who has a backyard or garden would do well to plant fruit trees for the years ahead.
The School That Put Local, Healthy, and Homemade on the Lunch Menu
The Village School is reinventing how a public school feeds its children.
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.
