Coming into Carbon Country
Climate change is carbon, hunger is carbon, money is carbon, politics is carbon, land is carbon, we are carbon.
Food & Water
Improving diets: health-by-stealth
The key to Chicken Shop’s success and effectiveness is that they work with existing market forces instead of against them.
Meet the Tenacious Gardeners Putting Down Roots in “America’s Most Desperate Town”
It’s part of the untold story of Camden: a story in which the residents of this blighted city are the protagonists, quietly working to make Camden a place where, one day, you might want to live.
Treating Food as an Investment
We need to rethink our calculus on food spending. Rather than looking at food as an expenditure with no long term implications, we instead need to view our food spending as an investment.
Get your oats here! Community support helps new enterprise transform local food supply chain
Grown in Totnes attempts to set a standard for ‘local’.
Our future farmers: Ragman’s Farm
As land prices soar, and the average age of farmers continues to climb, we desperately need new farmers, or risk having nobody to feed us in the future.
Urban Agriculture in Rust Belt Cities
In many Great Lakes “rust belt” cities, urban agriculture has emerged as a productive reuse of vacant land resultant from economic decline, population loss, and home foreclosures.
Hungry for land: small farmers feed the world with less than a quarter of all farmland – report
Report shows that small farms provide most of the world’s food because they are often much more productive than large corporate farms, yet the land available to them is shrinking.
What happens at a Local Food “Lab”
This post outlines the key elements to this form of eater/producer/middle folk engagement to strengthen their local food systems.
Local Food Lab – Permaculture of Community
How can communities take hold of their food destiny? How can people-in-community even understand themselves as part of a food system (a permanent culture) they might care about – and reclaim?
Transition Towns and Beyond: The Ecological Land Co-operative
“Localization stands, at best, at the limits of practical possibility, but it has the decisive argument in its favour that there will be no alternative.”
For Our Children’s Earth… rebuilding the soil, sustaining the future.
Without soil, and the overlying atmosphere, with its 20% oxygen content, life on the surface of the earth could not exist. Certainly there would be no humans.
