Two arrogant men
To reject thousands of years of indigenous (in its wider sense) and traditional land management as ignorant and devastating is not helpful.
Food & Water
Anne Biklé and David Montgomery: “Nourishing the Land and Ourselves”
On this episode, Nate is joined by “free range biologist” Anne Biklé and “broad-minded geologist” David Montgomery – a married duo who have been educating about the link between soil and human health for nearly a decade.
Letter From The Farm | Restoring Nature, Improving Productivity
For millennia, farmers in the Burren have played a central role in supporting the rich biodiversity and cultural heritage of the region.
What’s real
Making hay is essential in all the ways that Julius Caesar and empires and everything to do with the narratives of men are not.
Growing food is work!
Growing food is just like every other exercise – no one learns to rock climb, knit, box, embroider, run, dance, make art, build things, etc… without a LOT of time being less productive than they’d like to be to get the skill set.
The war on farming
I’ve come to think that, unfortunately, small farm societies emerging contingently in some of the margins of a collapsing urban-industrial world system and shining a light to the future is about as good a prospect as we can realistically now hope for.
Paying for clean water
There’s a wider point here—that in general the private sector would never be profitable if it had to pay for the environmental capital it gets through—but it’s rare to see such a clear cut example.
What Cuba’s “organic revolution” taught me about AI
The Cuban experience now looks to me like an even more impressive success story, showing purely human intelligence coping with a seriously life-threatening situation at nation-state scale.
Localism, manufactured food and energy futures: thoughts from the Groundswell Festival
There will be no food factories on a dead planet, and there will be no low-carbon manufactured food in a fossil-fuelled energy system.
CAP Strategic Plans: More Money, Less Accountability
Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and particularly since the invasion of Ukraine, the agricultural sector has found itself embroiled in an ongoing crisis.
Saying NO to a Farm-Free Future: Excerpt
The case for manufactured protein is sometimes made on the grounds that its bacterially based processes are more energy efficient than plant photosynthesis. But it’s a misleading claim given the energy costs of producing the generated electricity and industrial plant needed in the manufactured route.
Saying No to a Farm-Free Future by Chris Smaje
Who needs to read Saying No to a Farm-Free Future? Anyone thinking that the ecomodernist prescription might be a good idea; and anyone arguing with ecomodernists and looking for data to back up their feeling that “food” factories in megacities is not the best path.
