How River School Farm grows healthy food in the desert
It’s a normal day at River School Farm, a central hub in Reno’s local food scene. I’m here to find out what that scene looks like, and what part River School Farm plays in its past and future.
Food & Water
Falling leaves
This time of year our inside window sills clutter up with tree leaves that Carol and I have found in our grove while walking to and from the barn and which are so pretty we just have to save them.
Food & agriculture – Nov 19
•Peak Oil? What About Peak Food? A Conversation With Lester Brown
•Revolution in Mexico City, one lettuce at a time
•Chicago’s urban farm district could be the biggest in the nation
•Massive deforestation risks turning Somalia into desert
•These guerrilla cartographers are mapping the edible world
Low-Carbon Future?
It’s quite easy to bury your head in the sand but even with our heads fully submerged, our bottoms cannot ignore the fact that over the last five years they have been intermittently frozen, drenched, dried out and/or baked at the most odd and unexpected of times.
Human bodies for fertilizer?
I thought I had an original idea recently only to find that thousands of others were way ahead of me. I got to thinking about cemeteries and their potential for garden farming while making death a little less abhorrent. That’s when I had this “new” idea that actually is very old but is now a new movement.
Mr Moyse and the Green Tomatoes
When I joined Transition the following year, I began to write again, after many years silence, and one of the very first stories I wrote was about the little roadside stall I found with neat bunches of leeks for sale and the man who grew them in his wedge-shaped garden.
What is holistic livestock management?
Holistic management seeks to restore grassland ecosystems by using livestock as a proxy for the wild herds of grazing ruminants that the prairies and savannas of the world co-evolved with and depend on.
A farmer’s 2012 election analysis
After more than a year of craziness, build up and drama, Election 2012 is now behind us. It was a multi-multi Billion Dollar spectacle. It was a booming time for the media due to all of the spending on ads for the federal and local races. It was an exciting time with lots of interesting rhetoric and promises. Now, we have to sort out what it all means.
Food & agriculture – Nov 8
•Bee business picking up in Berlin •Yard times: Denver’s super-local veggie box •Double dose of pesticide poses new danger for bumblebees •Did California Voters Defeat the Food Movement Along With Prop. 37?
Lima beans into November
Bad weather almost always brings a few good results, something to hang on to in the time of adversity.
Traditional foods help remind us who we are
“Native foods have been in this region for thousands of years,” said Segrest. “That’s what people are craving—more than carbohydrates and protein. They want a connection with food, with the environment, with community. These foods help us remember who we are.”
The vegetables anyone can grow: Edible weeds
Weeds not only flaunt human control, their very definition is a tricky thing to pin down. The standard definition goes along the lines of ‘a plant growing where it is not wanted’. The concept of a weed is a subjective one, more of a mental category than a botanical one. The plants we call weeds come from all corners of the plant kingdom. It is remarkable then that so many of these plants which we curse, spray and hoe turn out to be not only edible, but often more nutritious than the cultivated crops they grow next to.
