More Water Stress than Meets the Eye
In nearly 1 in 10 U.S. watersheds, water use exceeds the natural water supply.
Food & Water
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.
Local Abundance!
No longer will I let a “job” define who I am as a person.
On Developing a Co-Owned Food Council for Minneapolis
OTC has been working to implement practical, shared power structures through the Homegrown Minneapolis Initiative.
Africa’s Challenge in the 21st Century – Food Security
Africa as a whole is going to face two major problems in the 21st century: food security and adapting to climate change.
