Water Stress Threatens Future Energy Production
When we flip on a light, we rarely think about water. But electricity generation is the biggest user of water in the United States.
Food & Water
Should You Be Able to Buy Food Directly From Farmers? Regulators Don’t Think So
Around the country, local farmers are selling meat, dairy products, and other dinner table staples directly to neighbors, who are increasingly flocking to the farms in search of wholesome food.
Field trip to an agroecological “teikei” family farm
In teikei consumers participate in the production through labour and capital, and in return they get seasonal, local, organic food directly from the farm.
How to Install Raised Garden Beds
Hopefully this guide will give you the direction, inspiration, and confidence that you, too, can be tending your own well-constructed garden beds soon.
Permaculture: The Big Rock Candy Mountain
When I first encountered permaculture, I assumed it had some new principles to suggest, was eager to test them, discard the lemons, and move on. I was wrong.
Food & agriculture – July 16
• Congressional posturing: House Republicans (No Democrats) pass farm bill without food stamps •Can an urban food growing project cure a ‘sick city’? •Hipster hen dump: The issue of urban chicken abandonment •Small-scale producers key to attaining food security and ending hunger
The power of creating an edible high road
On Saturday 18 May a river of fruit and nut trees appeared along Salusbury Road as part of the Chelsea Fringe Festival in an initiative of Transition Town Kensal to Kilburn (TTK2K).
Cookin’ Up Food Justice at People’s Kitchen Detroit
Located in the Cass Corridor Commons of Detroit, People’s Kitchen Detroit (PKD) hosts skillshares on everything from canning to gardening, making yogurt and nut milk to DIY herbal medicine.
The Impact of Transnational “Big Food” Companies on the South: A View from Brazil
Traditional long-established food systems and dietary patterns are being displaced in Brazil and in other countries in the South (Africa, Asia, and Latin America) by ultra-processed products made by transnational food corporations (“Big Food” and “Big Snack”).
Jenny Gellatly on The Power of Just Growing Stuff
What does it take to find the confidence to step over into actually starting a Community Supported Agriculture scheme?
One Man’s Trash Is Another Families’ Dinner
My days as a dumpster diver started in earnest back when I was 19.
Building a resilient homestead of your own
“Imagine inheriting a food forest,” farmer and author Ben Falk suggests in The Resilient Farm and Homestead: an Innovative Permaculture and Whole Systems Design Approach.
