Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
The world’s global strategy of food and farming is founded on three great untruths – lies, in effect — which between them are threatening to kill us all, and in practice are well on the way to doing so.
73% of seed crops are now ‘owned’ by 10 corporations – while community and grassroots initiatives are working to keep global diversity alive.
Been thinking how to grow a prairie. I am facing a steep learning curve.
How will agriculture have to change if we are going to successfully navigate past Peak Oil and address climate change?
Urban agriculture is cutting edge. It’s what we need right now.
A new vision for New England’s food.
For more than 15 years, there were many efforts to lure a new grocery store into the space. However, while the store would be profitable, it wouldn’t be profitable enough to satisfy the demands of the shareholder-based economy of a large corporation.
The Great Seed Festival weekend was seized as an opportunity to raise awareness of the current threats to seeds, the losses they have sustained in recent history and what this means for the future of food and farming.
The problems with how we get our food are a microcosm of the problems with our economy.
I had the great honour the other day of formally opening the UK’s first urban mushroom farm.
This game of investing energy towards the procurement of food is one that Homo sapiens – and all living organisms – have played for millennia.
Rebuilding the commons in an economically-divided, violence-scarred neighborhood.
