Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Common Good City Farm currently grows more than 60 varieties of vegetables, 30 culinary and medicinal herbs, and 10 fruits. Now, the organization is growing over 5,000 pounds of food each year to share with its community.
After food, sex is the most important factor in keeping life going but it causes almost as much sorrow and pain as it does joy and pleasure.
Mark Winne, an author and anti-hunger activist, often says that the most important word in “community garden” isn’t “garden.” I saw this firsthand not long ago.
The region, or foodshed, is the right level of analysis for self-reliance (which the authors wisely distinguish from self-sufficiency.
Across the UK the food sovereignty movement is growing. A budding plethora of networks are challenging the current corporate control of the food system and sowing the seeds of structured community food chains and holistic food economies.
Excess fresh food is being provided to patients in the University of Vermont Medical Center’s methadone clinic. This keeps the extra food from being wasted!
Localism, however, doesn’t just mean buying local – the point of it is that it’s aiming for a transformation of the food system…
I grab another cup of coffee and go back outside, to begin anew a slow January farm day.
In Meghalaya, indigenous women are keepers of the seeds that form the foundation of their food sovereignty, a conscious choice by small food producers to define their unique food systems and culture.
With most of the results now in, it’s time to find out what my garden told me in 2015.
Curtis Stone’s brilliant new book ‘The Urban Farmer’, is one of the most important contributions to Transition thinking over the last 10 years…
As more people turn to small farming as a business, or just for fun, or both, they are going to experience some of the delight that those of us who grew up in farm barns cherish.
