Land, apples, and political engagement in Scotland
The community growing movement in Scotland reveals a desire, and an opportunity, for a more profoundly democratic politics.
Food & Water
The Permablitz: Transforming Urban Homesteads in a Single Day
During a Permablitz, an army of volunteers, friends, and neighbors descend on a home and transform the yard (back, front, or both) into a food-growing wonderland.
Farm to Childcare program expands to 62 sites across Minnesota
Beginning today, childcare centers throughout Minnesota are set to serve healthy, locally grown foods as part of a Farm to Childcare initiative—an innovative program designed in partnership between the Minnesota-based Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) and childcare provider New Horizon Academy (NHA).
Food Waste Fighter: An Interview with Jonathan Bloom
…trimming our food waste is more important than composting our excess.
Food Rescue Program Spreads in Colorado
It’s a shocking fact that 40% of all food produced in the US goes to waste at some point in production.
Mexico protests Monsanto with a Carnival of Corn
The current generation of Mexican activists is looking for new strategies to fight for social justice, and the March Against Monsanto provided an opportunity to fuse tradition and innovation into the building blocks for a global food revolution.
Worldwide Honey Bee Collapse: A Lesson in Ecology
We know what is killing the bees.
China’s Growing Hunger for Meat Shown by Move to Buy Smithfield, World’s Leading Pork Producer
Half the world’s pigs—more than 470 million of them—live in China, but even that may not be enough to satisfy the growing Chinese appetite for meat.
Eating on the wild side
The biggest drop in nutrients was probably 10,000 years ago, when we stopped eating wild foods and became farmers.
ROOTS, SHOOTS AND SEEDS: The Spear Carriers
Roots, Shoots and Seeds is a book about the local community food movement, set around the wide arable fields of East Anglia, following the tracks of the crops that grow in these clay and sandy soils, from barley to flax, from rapeseed to potatoes.
Rivers and Stories
A book of river stories is, of course, an invitation to think about the relation between rivers and stories. It is also an occasion to think about the condition of the world’s rivers, which we need urgently to do at this moment in the history of the human relation to the earth.
Review: Paradise Lot
In practice, self-reliance can be harder than permaculture experts sometimes make it sound. This is where Eric Toensmeier’s ‘Paradise Lot’ comes in. Anyone who finds him or herself discouraged in their permaculture garden efforts should take heart and read this book.
