Community Seed Banks
Seed saving is very easy to do and most enjoyable. It also helps to build resilience back into the individual and the community.
Food & Water
Food & agriculture – October 16
•Can Industrial Agriculture Provide Global Food Security?
•Dutch greenhouses are rapidly tapping into the geothermal opportunity
•Container City: The Colombian Food Court with Personality
•Rooftop Farming Is Getting Off The Ground
•Food poverty is an attack on society
Meals on wheels
These 2% Solutions feature a mobile grocery and a mobile processing unit, both of which are innovative ideas for feeding people in food deserts.
More Water Stress than Meets the Eye
In nearly 1 in 10 U.S. watersheds, water use exceeds the natural water supply.
Eric Swarts: Representing a New Generation of Emerging, Climate-Conscious Farmers in South Africa
“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.”
A 2 Pound Puffball and Other Autumn Fungi
Ultimately, if you are into mushrooms and enjoy hunting them and eating them, then educating yourself is the most important thing you can do.
Nothing Needs to be Wasted
The first way to cut food waste, obviously, is to use as much as possible, whether store-bought or from your garden.
Peaches Help Grow Slovenia’s Gift Economy
An amazing initiative happened in Slovenia this summer.
Permaculture pocket knives
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.
Burning the bones of the earth: lime kilns
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.
A farm beyond food
Sutton Community Farm in London, England is the city’s largest arable community farm.
Unlimited competition is not sustainable
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.
