Learning from my soil: the 2014 garden dialogue
In 2013 I asked my garden to tell me if the soil would benefit from re-mineralization. The answer is in. The next move in the dialogue is mine. Find out what I’ll be asking the soil to tell me in 2014.
Food & Water
The United Kingdom’s ‘This is Rubbish’ Calls for Food Waste Prevention in the Food Industry
The United Kingdom’s (UK) This is Rubbish (TiR) is currently seeking funding to help pilot the Industry Food Waste Audit Proposal (IFWAP), its first research project on food waste in the UK’s food industry.
Growing Insects: Farmers Can Help to Bring Back Pollinators
With a sharp decline in pollinating insects, farmers are being encouraged to grow flowering plants that can support these important insects. It’s a fledgling movement that could help restore the pollinators that are essential for world food production.
Andy Lipkis, the man taking on LA’s water system
The situation LA faces in relation to water is both stark and as clear an example of un-joined up thinking as you could hope to see.
Today’s Peasant Movement – Sophisticated, Threatened, and Our Best Hope for Survival
Today, peasants proudly and powerfully put forward effective strategies to feed the planet and limit the damages wrought by industrial agriculture.
Rosie Boycott on Capital Growth and scaling up urban agriculture
An enormous amount of benefits do flow from a community garden.
Food security
I was recently invited to an Open Space event hosted by the Bowen (Island) Agricultural Alliance (BAA!) and facilitated by my friend Chris Corrigan. It was a small group — about two dozen — but most of the people there were farmers. With my Transition-based knowledge of permaculture and food security, it was a humbling and eye-opening experience.
More cow love, carbs, carbon, and culture
What services do wild and domesticated ruminants give to the land? How can we improve the quality of the land while also returning our relationship with cows from an industrial model to an agroecological one?
West Virginia’s Elk River Chemical Spill and How We Measure Progress
It’s a cruel irony for the 300,000 West Virginians forced to turn off their taps for five to ten days… will count as a plus according to…GDP.
Paradise Farmed: Inside Kaua’i’s Local Food Movement
…the beauty of Kaua’i is legendary. Yet most of the roughly one million visitors…don’t realize that Kaua’i grows only a small fraction of the food that’s eaten here.
The Coffee Grower’s Paradox
Do climate change adaptation programs just shift climate vulnerability?
The Role of Japanese Cooperatives Post Fukushima
Cooperatives are the backbone for Japan’s rural economy through their presence in agriculture, fisheries, and even forestry.
