Fossil Fuels and Haymaking
Haymaking is a battle, a war with time and nature, a struggle whose sole aim is to make “all flesh grass”.
Food & Water
Human manure: Closing the nutrient loop
Using human urine and faeces as fertiliser may seem an unappetising concept but it’s been common practice for centuries.
Arguments against GMOs
Reductionist science is not the answer to the problems engendered by a finite biosphere with a human population in overshoot.
Soil Science Spelled It Out A Whole Century Ago
An organic farm marketer brought me a strange book to read and I can’t get it out of my mind.
Hacking it out at the Farm
New entrants to farming in Britain are often faced with a long list of challenges before they even put their wellies on.
The Fifth Wave: Part 2
An agrarian economy…rises up from the soils, fields, woods, streams, rangelands, hills, mountains, backyards, and rooftops.
The Meaning of a Local Table
How rain falls and how it is used is place based. How each farm uses the rain affects the productivity of the garden, the lives of the livestock, and the setting of the table.
What Would Happen if We all Grew Food?
Why GMO? How many people could all the empty yards in a suburban block feed if they were put to use growing food?
On the Way to Taking Root
Ecodrom93 enables Roma families in the suburbs of Paris to grow their own vegetables and make a home for themselves in the community.
Despite drought, California is still bottling water for export
An inverted totalitarian position is in direct opposition to the ecological principles that have, in previous years, been part and parcel of the very fabric of California.
Fomenting the Ferment
Fermentation on Wheels rolled into town over the weekend.
An Agrarian Life
No doubt, as long as members of our race have felt consoled by the comforting embrace of empire, they have felt the snare grip their ankle as they tried to reclaim whatever was felt to them as an authentic life.
