What I Learned from my First Garden
This year, I started my first garden—a micro garden really.
Food & Water
How Three U.S. Mini-Farms are Sowing the Seeds of Global Food Security
Biointensive farms use 50 to 75 percent less land and 94 to 99 percent less energy to produce a given amount of food than does conventional farming.Research shows that biointensive farms use 50 to 75 percent less land, 50 to 100 percent less fertilizer, 67 to 88 percent less water and 94 to 99 percent less energy to produce a given amount of food than does conventional farming.
Restaurant Revolutionaries Fighting Food Waste
According to research by the charity WRAP (Waste and Resources Action Programme), the amount of food that is wasted annually in UK pubs and restaurants is equivalent to throwing away one in every six of the eight billion meals served each year.
The Potato Park of Peru
Drive an hour northeast from Cusco, Peru, and you will encounter some beautiful high mountain lakes, historic Inca ruins, and the richest diversity of potatoes on the planet.
Sheepwrecked or wheatwrecked? Towards a Wessex pastoral
A loose confederation of animal welfare activists, human health activists and environmentalists have popularised the view that globally we need to produce less meat and livestock, and it’s not a view I’ll quarrel with for the most part.
Post Carbon Institute’s Asher Miller on the Sustainability & Resilience of Our Food System
I feel inordinately lucky to be able to do this work – despite the fact that it often feels overwhelming or frightening.
Vegetable Agenda: Where art and vegetables meet
The moment that you arrive at Blaenffos Market Garden in Pembrokeshire you can see that there is an artist’s hand at work…
Trade in Food: It’s the Competition, Stupid
Trade is not only a response to market demand, it creates demand and therefore recreates the need for it; trade becomes its own justification.
The Peasant’s Republic of Wessex
My previous post introduced the Peasant’s Republic of Wessex, a future polity in the west of England where about a fifth of the working population are engaged in producing their own agrarian subsistence. In this post, I aim to start filling in a few details of what this might look like.
Bio-mimicry at Polyface Farms
In this interview with Joel Salatin, Joel talks about how the regeneration of his family farm utilized the patterns discovered from observing natural grazing and migration of wild animals in native plant communities.
The Importance of Local Food and Farming
SHED is Doug’s and Cindy’s local food-focused modern grange – hosting a market, cafe and fermentation bar.
Return to Sender: Food for Social Return on Food Investments
At last, a way to document the value of what we do to the bean counters who make decisions!!
