A tale of two gardening methods
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.
Food & Water
Composting Coop Taps into the Unbroken Spirit of Rust Belt Cities
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.
The Price of Milk
Experiencing at first hand the economic impact of the climate in which dairy farmers are operating gives the issue a whole different meaning.
Tea
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.
The Time Has Come for Local Agriculture
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.
Another Reason for a Carbon Tax
How do we create a marketplace that will pay landowners and others to double the carbon content of their soil?
Seed sharing in US threatened by regulation
Local regulators in the US are starting to apply laws meant for big, corporate seed producers to the approximately 300 community seed libraries in the US. Unless regulators are stopped soon, these seed libraries may be quickly regulated out of existence. State regulators are copying one another and, unfortunately, this trend is gaining momentum.
Urban Farming Guys
Anyway sometimes something pops up in one of your streams that breaks through all the nonsense and shines a powerful beam of hope..
Renowned Chef Dan Barber Offers Radical New Way to Farm
After researching farm communities throughout the world for more than a decade, Barber concluded America’s food needs a radical transformation to ensure the future of our health, food and land.
Securing Water for Urban Farms
A surprisingly large share of the world’s cropland is found not in rural areas, but within cities and their immediate surroundings.
SELC and Shareable Kickoff Campaign to Save Seed Sharing in the U.S.
The campaign is designed to educate people about seed sharing issues, support seed sharing communities, and reform overzealous seed laws.
“Revolting” Food Traditions
Our emotive reactions to food are incredibly powerful in guiding our culinary habits.
