The Farm that Grows Climate Solutions
High in the mountains of Veracruz, Mexico, a small cooperative is “farming carbon” — practicing agriculture in a way that fights climate change while simultaneously meeting human needs.
Food & Water
Shall The Meek Inherit The Earth After All?
I’m not what you’d call a Bible thumper, but I do like to quote it on occasion, inserting an appropriate passage into the conversation in a sonorous voice that makes me sound wise.
New Equations of Regions, People, Nature and Food Chains
We usually think of geologists as going deep, but when it comes to working through the layers of meaning behind local food, geographer Terry Marsden knows how to dig very deep.
Bog Butter
Or you could do what Irish people used to do for thousands of years, and just bury food in the bog without all the steps in between.
Food Youth: The Next Generation of the Food Movement is Coming Up
I had the chance to speak with three young people, to learn more about their experience with food and their motivations to meaningfully connect with it.
Community Composting Grows from a Seed into a Movement
At the core of any community composting program is the principle of using previously wasted resources as community assets and reinvesting them back into the community that created them.
Peasantization as Modernization – an Alternative Ecomodernism
Berman writes that Faust “comes to feel it is terrifying to look back, to look the old world in the face” and to me this exactly captures a rage in modernism that troubles me.
Perennial plants and a promise produce a new project
A friendly reminder, the bees, and some soil test results suggest a new garden project for 2016 and beyond.
The Centrality of Seed: Building Agricultural Resilience Through Plant Breeding
Five of the global issues most frequently debated today are the decline of biodiversity in general and of agrobiodiversity in particular, climate change, hunger and malnutrition, poverty and water. Seed is central to all five issues.
Meet India’s Female “Seed Guardians” Pioneering Organic Farming
Bring up the topic of seeds and Nabita Goud sits up a little straighter and begins to talk animatedly.
The 2016 garden: a year of transition
Now it’s time to share with you my plans for the 2016 garden.
Why Family Farms Must be Protected
With the UK rapidly losing its traditional farming culture, groups like the FFA and the Land Workers Alliance (LWA) see protecting smaller farms as a priority.
