Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
We may be getting closer to integrating the science of agroecology and the science of nutrition, toward a holistic approach that would follow nutrients from the soil, to plants and animals, to human bodies.
Without fertile soil, we risk failing to ensure that everyone has the right to adequate food.
The Homeless Garden Project in Santa Cruz, California is one of the many community garden projects in the area, yet is unique in its mission and its everyday actions.
It seems pretty obvious that recycling, reusing, and repurposing materials we no longer need makes a lot more sense than burning or burying them, not just from an environmental, but an economic perspective.
Imagine if each tap that delivered water from the Colorado River – whether to a farm, a factory, or a home – suddenly went dry for a year. What would happen to the West’s economy?
Have you ever saved seeds, joined a local seed swap or contributed to a seed library?
Principle Six (P6) provides a pathway for everyday people to use our cooperatively owned community institutions to move money into the hands of small, local, and cooperative businesses.
Now that I have worked with two different gardening methods, I look at each through the lens of soil fertility and how that affects what I grow.
Today Cleveland boasts over 200 community gardens. I am proud to say I get to work with a handful of them in a unique way.
Experiencing at first hand the economic impact of the climate in which dairy farmers are operating gives the issue a whole different meaning.
When I and several others were helping build the cob house in County Clare a few years ago, some of us took a break for tea. As we walked back to the shelter across the wildflower fields, though, some of the other workers started picking various flowers along the way and piling them into baskets.
I chose to paint [Joan Gussow] because for longer than almost anyone else in this country she has been preaching the necessity—for human health, ecological health, and energy health—of local, organic agriculture.
