Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
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.
Does hill farming have a place in the management of moorland or as George Monbiot argues, is it the scourge of the countryside?
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.
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.
Almost anyone who has a backyard or garden would do well to plant fruit trees for the years ahead.
The Village School is reinventing how a public school feeds its children.
Drive across America today, and there’s one thing you’re guaranteed to see more of: farmers’ markets.
Brian tells the story of one early morning on the farm.
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 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.
We say that every square meter of land that is worked with agro-ecology is a liberated square meter.
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.
