Downhome Fibers: A River of Creativity, Care & Quality
Clear decision making accompanied by determination and hard work has landed Kim Bethel into a life extraordinarily well suited to her.
Food & Water
Young Agrarians
At its best the agrarian life is an integrated whole, with work and leisure mixed together, undertaken under healthful conditions and surrounded by family.
Community Food Activists Tell Their Stories
It’s easy to dismiss issues facing people we don’t know and don’t see. Out of sight, out of mind. And if we don’t know any people grappling with hunger, that crisis can seem very abstract.
The Energetic Basis of Wealth
Last year I did an analysis to try to understand whether it’s possible to feed the world sustainably. Today I’d like to try to understand what happens to countries as they must rely upon the sun for energy (and, indirectly, wealth).
During extreme drought, farmers try for resiliency
For those who take the long view, there are bigger ideas to achieve resilience in the face of extreme weather.
Crowdfunding and Ownership in the Sharing Economy
What would…our sensibilities regain, if sustainable local food projects matched the design of ownership and control to the sense of fit and appropriateness of each place the project were implemented?
Why we need a farmer-led food movement
Long Island seaweed and shellfish farmer Bren Smith warned parents in a recent New York Times Sunday Review not to let their children go into farming.
An open letter to George Monbiot
Influenced by the ideas of Allan Savory and other advocates of holistic grazing, I have been introducing the basic principles of this approach into my grazing management over the last few years.
Living in the Green
My day nearly always starts with a reluctant rise into consciousness triggered by my churning gut. I can feel the adrenaline pumping before I open my eyes and when I finally wake up fully, I’m filled with a nagging anxiousness.
Investing in Nutrient Dense Food: Magnesium
The last nutrient I’ll focus on in this series is magnesium, which, like iron and calcium, is a mineral rather than a vitamin, and it serves a range of purposes in our bodies.
Harvests from Hemp Heroes
An earlier blog post..discussed the promises of hemp cultivation to employ US veterans, grow a generation of new farmers, and revitalize a cellulose-based alternative to our current resource-intensive fiber industries.
Early days for regenerative agriculture: Can it help solve climate change?
A planned rotation of the cattle mimics movements that herds of ruminants would make in response to predation by pack hunters when such environments evolved as systemic wholes.
