Wild Food
All food was wild once, and all the vegetables in rows at the grocers were bred over centuries from what we now call weeds.
Food & Water
Sustainable farming mania is frustrating me
Am I the only office guy in America who spends his leisure time reading into the benefits of no-till agriculture or how cows can improve the land by “mobbing, mowing and moving” over a pasture?
New projection of Peak Phosphorus
A detailed projection of phosphorus production by two Australian researchers indicates that world phosphate rock production will most likely peak in 2027. Phosphorus is a finite resource and cannot be substituted for agricultural uses. Without the use of phosophrus in fertilisers it would be difficult to provide sufficient food for an expanding world population.
Cultivating Values on the College Farm, or, Revisionist History Has No Future
So why did a small college going the extra mile to be humane and sustainable face an orchestrated avalanche of wrath when it planned to slaughter two of its admittedly iconic oxen?
Our seed, our sovereignty – seed law victory in Indonesia
Between 2005 and 2010, more than a dozen farmers from Kediri and Nganjuk regencies in East Java were prosecuted after seed companies accused them of stealing seed.
Permaculture and the myth of scarcity
If we had 10% of the population engaged in agriculture rather than the current 1%, we could easily feed the country without petrochemicals or pesticides.
Living without a fridge
I’ve been living without a fridge for the last three months – the winter months of Melbourne, Australia. Before you send me to the asylum, however, let me tell you about this experiment…
Permaculture in China
Permaculture is introduced in Hangzhou, China providing an alternative to Chinese Industrial Agriculture.
Learning to value Mother Earth
Reducing waste and eating foods that have less of an impact on the environment is this years’ World Environment Day theme. We can all learn lessons from communities living in the Andes.
Abundance!
It is that time of year again here in the northern temperate climate of Minnesota when we start to see the abundance that pours forth from a well loved and tended garden.
Transforming the Food System in Australia – From the Ground Up
There is a battle underway for the soul of Australia’s food system.
Mountain Grown: Appalachia’s New Local Food Economy
Restaurants like Knife and Fork didn’t use to exist in places like Spruce Pine, a town of just 2,200 people nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina.
