Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
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.
Lime burning, is a now-forgotten industry that sustained many agrarian communities before energy became cheap. Explore the Irish countryside and you occasionally find lime kilns in the form of a stone cylinder, as much as several metres high and wide.
Sutton Community Farm in London, England is the city’s largest arable community farm.
Large farms are increasingly dominating crop production in the United States. In the early 1980s, most farms produced crops on less than 600 acres, but the majority of today’s farms grow crops on at least 1,100 acres. And many farms are ten times that size.
No longer will I let a “job” define who I am as a person.
OTC has been working to implement practical, shared power structures through the Homegrown Minneapolis Initiative.
Africa as a whole is going to face two major problems in the 21st century: food security and adapting to climate change.
The beetle sighed. "This is all something you once knew, I think. It is something all beings have known from the beginning of time…It is a pity, this forgetting of yours."
A central premise of the Southern Willamette Valley Bean and Grain Project is the exploration of bean, grain, and edible seed varieties that can be added to those that are already grown in the Willamette Valley. The goal is to increase the diversity of staple crops as a way to add resilience to the regional food system. The edible seed of Chenopodium quinoa is a close fit.
Not many truly American stories begin in a place like Kosodo village.
Transformative changes are needed in our food, agriculture and trade systems in order to increase diversity on farms, reduce our use of fertilizer and other inputs, support small-scale farmers and create strong local food systems.
The world wastes 1.3 billion tons of food annually—a third of all the food that’s produced—according to a report published last week by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
