Student Turned Entrepreneur Re-Envisions Local Food
Meet Ben Greene. He’s a student turned entrepreneur from Raleigh, NC. His brain child, The Farmery, promises to bring a whole new way of life to urban locavores.
Food & Water
Innovation of the Week: Gardening “Boot Camps” for Troubled Youth
Rather than a jail term, a program from the Cook County Boot Camp in Illinois is finding ways to reach troubled youth and inmates through urban gardening.
Horticultural Traditions
Long before the rise of annual grain based industrial agriculture, and the dismantling of our food and cultural traditions, humans lived in ways much closer to the earth.
The Incredible Edible: Ten Steps
After five years of austerity and with more to come, the need to rethink local economies is more pressing than ever.
Forget the Food Industry: Rediscover the Pleasure of Buying, Cooking, and Eating Real Food
As a graduate of New York’s French Culinary Institute and former chef, I’m obsessed with great food.
Crowd-funding the New Frontier: Radical Mycology
Here’s a chance to support a radical mycology project seeking to put a potent tool for restoration in many more hands.
OI! You! Me ole fruit (‘n veg) or, Redbridge reborn
In the outer London Borough of Redbridge lives a person who has made it her mission to administer a life-enhancing injection of sustainable living to this complex social chequerboard of a borough, deeply divided by class, creed and ethnic origins.
7 billion for dinner? Here’s how to feed them
…industrial agriculture is not more efficient at producing food, it’s more efficient at eliminating farmers. If the goal isn’t to pull people off the land but to produce the most food, then small-scale, locally-adapted, diversified farms are the way to go.
Grow Appalachia: a better food system for America
Grow Appalachia is changing the way people throughout rural Appalachia relate to food.
The Bean and Grain Project – Outperforming Chemical Agriculture
The Southern Williamette Bean and Grain Project is exploring bean, grain, and edible seed varieties which can be added to those already grown in Oregon’s Willamette Valley.
The permaculture gardener: year-end wrap up
November has been quirky: it started warm, then got quite cold and windy, followed by falling leaves, brilliant blue skies, then heavy clouds, even snow. Did I leave anything out?
Unsustainable Farming: From Bird Droppings to Corporate Agriculture
The discovery of new lands to exploit, and new energy sources, helped reinforce the notion that human societies can always find a way around limitations upon its growth.
