Join the “Eat-All Greens” Garden Revolution
With three or four crops a year in a bed no larger than 4×12 feet, you can produce a couple hundred pounds of greens.
Food & Water
Lentil Underground
Why grow lentils? 1) Two big reasons: fertilizer and water. 2) They can cope with a wide range of weather conditions. 3) They’re delicious.
Love Water for Chocolate
It takes an astonishing 450 gallons (1700 liters) of water to make a typical 3.5-ounce (100-gram) chocolate bar. That’s about ten bathtubs of water for one bar of chocolate.
Our Permaculture Homestead
Join us for a beautiful and info-packed video tour of our permaculture homestead!
Seed Libraries Fight for the Right to Share
Seeds are the forgotten heroes of food—and of life itself.
Writing Agroecology into Law
In 2014, the French government recruited cross-party support to pass a new law for agriculture, food and forestry driven by a new-found commitment to agroecology.
Radical Farmers Use Fresh Food to Fight Racial Injustice and the New Jim Crow
Owning our own land, growing our own food, educating our own youth, participating in our own healthcare and justice systems—this is the source of real power and dignity.
Thomas Farm: Trailblazing the Organic Movement
It may be hard to imagine a time when the term “organic” was completely unregulated or when farmers markets were not a common sight in most major cities, but this was the agricultural landscape that Jerry and Jean Thomas drove boldly into when they left Los Angeles in their VW bug with a dream to farm.
Romancing the Farm
On a mid-summer day last year, The Guardian and Modern Farmer Magazine each published an article urging readers to ‘stop romanticising’ farms.
Affording our Land
One of the biggest challenges facing new farmers is access to affordable land.
India’s Food Security Threatened by Groundwater Depletion
Without serious efforts to stem the mining of groundwater, food production will decline.
How to Start a Seed Sharing Campaign in Your Town
Want to start a campaign to save seed sharing in your town? We’ve put together the following guide to help you do just that.
