What I Learned from my Garden in 2014
2014’s garden data is in. How did my garden respond to the questions I put to it this year? Read on and find out!
Food & Water
You don’t need money to buy a farm
How do you get into farming when land is so expensive? It’s easier than you might think. Let’s take a look.
Fibershed’s Colorado Hemp Research Project
Fiber systems are best designed to minimize detrimental impacts on the biosphere, and to enhance ecosystem function where possible. Fibershed has chosen to research the use of industrial hemp as a fiber crop because it fits both of these criteria.
Wild Seeds
For a decade now, I have been a seed saver.
Market Match: Making Fresh and Healthy Food Affordable
Started by Roots of Change in 2009 and now administered by the Berkeley-based Ecology Center, Market Match is a statewide healthy food incentive program that aims to improve the health of low-income communities by incentivizing shoppers to buy produce at farmers markets.
What Makes a Market?
The Netherlands is not known for its food culture but it’s now keen to play catch up with its European counterparts.
Food Safety Modernization Act – An Assault on Sustainable Agriculture?
We are not ready to be again a nation of farmers, each growing our own, but we are potentially on the edge of a major shift in public consciousness in favor of sustainable local food chains, moving us toward independence from corporate agriculture, and that much less dependent on fossil fuels.
One Minute Review: Incredible! by Pam Warhurst & Joanna Dobson
Incredible!: Plant Veg, Grow a Revolution is the story of Incredible Edible Todmorden (IET), the food-growing project in Yorkshire which has inspired people around the world to look at their urban spaces in a very different way.
A View from Terra Madre 2014: Slow Food’s Bi-annual Conference
At Terra Madre, the Slow Food movements bi-annual meeting of world food communities, seeing really is believing.
Street food: A tale of three cities
Food security in cities is more a matter of access to food than the availability of food.
Abundance Thinking
“It’s a cultural paradox,” said Dorn. “With lots of fertile soil, forests, water, and capable people, why can’t we make an independent, abundant living once more?”
Beyond Cabbage — The Fermentistas Show Us How
Let’s cultivate fermented food not only because it’s healthy, but for the wonderfully rich diversity of flavors!
