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.
Food & Water
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.
Grass, Soil, Hope
“Grass, Soil, Hope is at the same time a challenging book, in that it asks us to reconsider our pessimism about the human engagement with the rest of nature.
Fermenting the future at Ballymaloe
In a world where everything is becoming increasingly downloadable, food is the last bastion of the tangible, direct, and purely sensory.
Harvesting the rainbow
Where most people see compost, Sasha Duerr sees color.
Kentucky Veterans Cultivate a Hemp Resurgence
All sub-species of the Cannabis plant were made illegal in 1938, and progress to re-legalize the plant has peaked and troughed for over 20 years.
Building Soil, Growing Food, Nurturing Relationships
People coming together to cooperatively grow food can form some powerful ties. And that’s what it’s all about at Peaceful Grounds.
