Lawn Farming, the Next Big Thing
Every home with a lawn becomes a potential farm.
Food & Water
Redefining Farm-To-Table Eggs in Minnesota: An Interview with Locally Laid Egg Company
Locally Laid Egg Company is a family-run farm in Wrenshall, Minnesota that is hoping to redefine farm-to-table eggs, championing the agriculture of the middle, and finding ways to strengthen rural economies.
After a Century In Decline, Black Farmers Are Back And On the Rise
These Black farmers don’t stop at healthy food. They’re healing trauma, instilling collective values, and changing the way their communities think about the land.
Three Hopeful Steps to Feeding the Planet by Feeding Yourself
No scheme, no data, just a simple conviction that producing, eating with love, and sharing with neighbors just might help feed the world.
What’s a Carbon Farmer? How California Ranchers Use Dirt to Tackle Climate Change
For many climate change activists, the latest rallying cry has been, “Keep it in the ground,” a call to slow and stop drilling for fossil fuels. But for a new generation of land stewards, the cry is becoming, “Put it back in the ground!”
Nature’s Way: A Path to Ecological Agriculture
Allen White and Wes Jackson explore a new agricultural paradigm that mimics rather than contradicts ecological principles.
A Floating Food Forest Prepares to Set Sail in New York City
Half public art project, half tourist destination, a floating food forest called Swale is set to launch along the New York City waterfront in June.
My Agricultural Grandparents
It is not uncommon for farmers to talk about the influence their grandparents had on their farming education and their eventual success in agriculture. I am no different.
City Centre Milking Parlour Provokes Discussion
Finding innovative ways to provoke discussion and engage people with where their food comes from and how we value it as a society is an interesting challenge. This is exactly what Nessie Reid’s Milking Parlour exhibition in Bristol city centre set out to do.
The Revolution will not be Market Gardenized: Some Thoughts on Jean-Martin Fortier
It was suggested to me recently that I might like to pen some thoughts on Jean-Martin Fortier’s book The Market Gardener1. And indeed I would. Here they are.
A Recipe for Change
In Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation, Michael Pollan describes his personal journey of stepping away from processed and packaged foods toward cooking from scratch, and highlights the grievous consequences of industrial modernity in the daily arena of eating and drinking.
Seeds of Change
Gary Nabhan has taken the fight to the corporate seed merchants through the local food movement and seed saving community.
