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.
Food & Water
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.
Energy, Diminishing Returns and the Future of Food
This game of investing energy towards the procurement of food is one that Homo sapiens – and all living organisms – have played for millennia.
An Orchard Grows in Boston
Rebuilding the commons in an economically-divided, violence-scarred neighborhood.
West Virginia Cattle Farmers Build the Local Food Economy They Need to Thrive
Local food is nothing new in Appalachia…but the tradition of self-sufficiency has nearly died out
Biochar! The verdict is in: it works. And you should do it.
We know enough right now to start doing biochar: making it, getting it into the soil, and getting it into the hands of “regular farmers”. We’ll improve as we go along, but just using what is now known, the farmers, soil, crops, and atmosphere will all benefit.
Getting the Stone Rolling
Sometimes it takes someone from the other side of the world to help you realise just what’s on your door step. This is the message at the heart of a growing stone walling revolution in Zimbabwe.
Mycophile Summer
One of my goals and accomplishments for this summer, to learn the stories and tales of as many mushrooms as I could.
Permaculture and the Myth of Scarcity
"[While] the transitional period may involve temporary food shortages and real hardship, permaculture methods can easily feed the peak world population of perhaps 10 or 11 billion we’ll see by mid-century."
Multi-Functional Plants for the Permaculture Garden
If you have a choice of planting a tree, shrub, vine, herbaceous plant, or groundcover that only has one function or another species that fills that desired function and also provides three other benefits, why wouldn’t you plant the more functional species?
California Neighborhood Food Act Signed
On September 26, Governor Jerry Brown signed SELC’s Neighborhood Food Act, AB 2561, and several other bills seeking to promote local and sustainable food systems in California.
