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.
Food & Water
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Imagine if your bank statement arrived each month and told you how much money you had withdrawn and deposited, but told you nothing about how much money you had at the beginning or end of the month.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.
City Region Food Systems – Part I – Conceptualization
In the developed world, as exemplified in the U.S., there has been a great schism in this regional food bond as more and more distant places become primary food sources.
An Interview with Agroecologist Jairo Restrepo
My mission now is to defend life. This is my purpose, my instinct, but also to protect the conditions that encourage perpetual and healthy life.
Joel Salatin: The Pursuit Of Food Freedom
We need to celebrate and energize the public to defend the freedom to acquire the food of our choice from the source of our choice.
