Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
The western United States was settled with the help of big dams and river diversions that delivered distant water to burgeoning cities and farms, but at least one state is saying it’s time to shift gears.
Dehydration is one way to preserve some of the excess production from your garden. Learn why and how you can use the sun to dehydrate foods.
A new California law just signed by Governor Jerry Brown might take some of the risk out of the equation for urban farmers by making longer-term leases an appealing proposition for landowners.
Seed saving is very easy to do and most enjoyable. It also helps to build resilience back into the individual and the community.
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•Food poverty is an attack on society
These 2% Solutions feature a mobile grocery and a mobile processing unit, both of which are innovative ideas for feeding people in food deserts.
In nearly 1 in 10 U.S. watersheds, water use exceeds the natural water supply.
“I want to be able to sleep at night. I want to know that the food I’m selling people is going to help their health, not make them sick.”
Ultimately, if you are into mushrooms and enjoy hunting them and eating them, then educating yourself is the most important thing you can do.
The first way to cut food waste, obviously, is to use as much as possible, whether store-bought or from your garden.
An amazing initiative happened in Slovenia this summer.
I was challenged by a colleague about wearing a pocket knife, which he pointed out was illegal (without a genuine reason). This was news to me and intensified my feelings of alienation as a country person visiting the centre of a large city. What was the world coming to? But it also stimulated thought about what my genuine reasons for carrying a pocket knife in public might be and how that question was intimately connected to permaculture.
