Gardening for Victory: One Battle for Urban Food Security
While food insecurity often brings to mind global issues and struggles in developing countries, there are many examples in developed countries of local gaps in food security.
Food & Water
The Ecological Land Co-op
The ELC is based on the idea that smallholdings provide an ideal context for diverse, desirable low-carbon, localised lifestyles that provide satisfying employment, a reliable, home-grown food supply, and a desperately needed model for true sustainability that is in harmony with the local ecology.
City Region Food Systems – Part IIIB – Scale and Production Strategy
I think many of those in both the ‘small and organic is beautiful’ and the ‘large and conventional farms should supply the food’ sides are unnecessarily strident and unrealistic in their thinking.
Countryside Initiative Invites Homesteaders to Work the Land at Cuyahoga Valley National Park
Cuyahoga Valley National Park (CVNP) in Peninsula, Ohio, has nine homesteaders who reside on the Park’s land.
Wicked problems and wicked solutions: the case of the world’s food supply
I am back from two days of full immersion in a meeting on something rather new for me: the world’s food supply. I am still reeling from the impact. Whenever you go in some depth into anything; you see how immensely more complex things are in comparison to the pale shadow of the world that you perceive in the glittering screen of your TV. Everything is complex, and everything complex becomes wicked once you start seeing it as a problem.
City Region Food Systems – Part IIIA – Scale and Production Strategy
In this piece I analyze critiques of smaller scale and alternative production strategies from several angles. In the second I will discuss problems inherent in the argument that small scale can feed the U.S. population and consider a middle path of scale and production diversity.
With One-Third of Largest Aquifers Highly Stressed, It’s Time to Explore and Assess the Planet’s Groundwater
Imagine if your bank statement arrived each month and told you how much money you had withdrawn and deposited, but told you nothing about how much money you had at the beginning or end of the month.
City Region Food Systems – Part II – Who Will Farm?
Put another way, is the U.S. model of food sourcing scalable to an urbanized world of 9 billion?
What’s the Future of Agriculture?
We want to make (sustainable, local) farming a lucrative practice, so that smart and talented people will be drawn to the enterprise. That’s not as likely to happen if we transform farming into a not-for-profit enterprise.
Futureproofing America with a Yardfarming Revolution
So how do we create new jobs, rebuild local economies, bring back local agriculture, and make societies more resilient to climate change and potential disruptions in global food trade?
Rewilding Body, Mind, and Soil
Soil is Mother Earth’s gut – its microorganisms digest her food while her flora produce the necessary bacteria and yeasts to keep her healthy.
I Love my Rain Barrel
I’ve been slow to the rain barrel game, but it finally happened and I’m delighted.
