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.
Food & Water
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.
Sowing Seeds of Strength: Farmers of Color Tell Their Stories
“The chosen story for people of color in agriculture seems to play out on repeat, reducing our agrarian identity to slavery or farm labor and summing up our communities as deserts in need of water and food. But I know our story is so much richer than that.”
I Live In A FarmUNtopia
If the new notion of local farming and food production is to endure, it must start with determined individuals willing to go through the hellfire of unpleasant physical work and low financial returns.
Reflecting on Today’s Market Trends: A Report from Barcelona
Is today’s public market a place to buy food, to sit and eat a meal, or to have a unique educational or culinary experience? Can it be all of these things?
Agriculture Beyond Water
Drought is becoming more prevalent and causing havoc for food producers around the globe.
Grow Your Food in a Nook and Cranny Garden, Part 2
Nook and cranny gardens optimize micro-climates — water catchment for perennial plants, rocks that retain warmth to extend the growing period, and trees providing fuel, food and shade.
How to Build and Plant Large Hugelkultur Berms
You can plant just about anything in your hugel beds and they will do well, but there are certain plants that tend to do very well in a hugel bed.
Farming Starts in Cities
Farm commentators are remarking somewhat in surprise that the new move towards local food production and backyard farming are much more in evidence in and around cities than out where the big tractors lumber over the landscape.
Hudson Valley Harvest: Transparency is Key to Scaling Local Food
When asked what a good food system looks like, Alward says, “I think it’s one filled with information. The most effective tool is information. Let the consumers decide.” To this end, the company emphasizes transparent labeling that not only identifies both product and producer, but also includes information on proximity and processing.
Meet the Scientist Breeding More Resilient Bees (And 4 Other People Working to Save the Pollinators)
With honeybee populations on the decline, scientists, lawyers, and even artists have set out to save humanity’s most important pollinators.
