Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
“Even if every teenager doesn’t end up farming for a living, they hopefully become responsible participants in our food system,” says Gold. “The aim is to give them the tools they need to make their own healthy decisions…
A tour of Gord and Ann Baird’s edible landscape starts at the off-grid chicken house and yard, containing fruit trees that provide a protective canopy against flying predators.
“Agroecology applies the principles of ecology to the design and management of sustainable food systems.”
Revived in workshops and community kitchens, fermentation has become one of the many “reskilling” projects taking place in grassroots cultures from Europe to the United States in response to economic and environmental drivers.
The record-breaking drought in California is not chiefly the result of low precipitation. Three factors – rising temperatures, groundwater depletion, and a shrinking Colorado River – mean the most populous U.S. state will face decades of water shortages and must adapt.
A most provocative article in the latest Draft Horse Journal argues that an Amish farm with gross sales of $50,000 has more money to spend after necessary living expenses are paid out than a conventional farm with gross sales of $300,000…
As part of our shared work on farm to institution in Minnesota and the Upper Midwest, the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), the Sustainable Farming Association (SFA) and Renewing the Countryside (RTC) conducted an online survey of Minnesota growers interested in farm to institution markets in fall 2014.
First of all, everything you do will be wrong, at least according to someone, and that’s okay.
Here’s an idea: employ a farming or ranching practice that is known scientifically to increase levels of glomalin and get compensated financially!
Since the crackdown on seed libraries by some U.S. states last year, organizers (including Shareable) around the country have been working to protect seed sharing. In both Minnesota and Nebraska, bills that specifically exempt non-commercial seed sharing from commercial seed laws were recently signed into law.
Buying local these days can be difficult, as most of the food in supermarkets travels thousands of miles.
It’s not every day that someone who steals water from the commons for private use on his large estate gains folk hero status in the sustainability movement.
