Shashe farmers demonstrate practical food sovereignty
Food sovereignty as a concept is under debate by various actors in the academia, activists and governments.
Food & Water
The Archaic Arts and Skills
There are still niches for the archaic arts. And it is our job to help preserve them, to help them endure through the cacophony and clutter of the modern world.
Oxford Real Farming Conference: power, lies, and the need for agrarian resistance
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.
Seeding change
73% of seed crops are now ‘owned’ by 10 corporations – while community and grassroots initiatives are working to keep global diversity alive.
Mother Nature’s Tillers
Been thinking how to grow a prairie. I am facing a steep learning curve.
Inspiring New Film, “Voices of Transition,” on the Agriculture That We Need
How will agriculture have to change if we are going to successfully navigate past Peak Oil and address climate change?
Carrots among the concrete: the role of urban agriculture
Urban agriculture is cutting edge. It’s what we need right now.
New England Can Feed Itself. Here’s How.
A new vision for New England’s food.
After Years Without a Grocery Store, Greensboro Neighbors Are Building One Themselves—And They’ll Own It
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.
Bringing Seed Back
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.
Looking Back to our Future
The problems with how we get our food are a microcosm of the problems with our economy.
GroCycle: turning an empty office into a mushroom farm
I had the great honour the other day of formally opening the UK’s first urban mushroom farm.
