Monbiotic Man
The imperative is not to stop farming, but to phase out fossil fuels very quickly. Cavalier polemics that cast primary responsibility for our predicament elsewhere are a dangerous diversion.
Food & Water
Rural Europe Takes Action | CSA and the Building of a Food Commons
Community Supported Agriculure (CSA) can transform the way producers and consumers relate to food as a local commons.
Bean Week
And that was bean week. All in all, there are worse ways to spend your days!
You’re on a Beach and See a Tasty Critter. Can You Eat It?
This week I’m looking at foraging local plants and animals. Vancouver is a coastal city with beaches littered with Pacific mussels and varnish clams, and lush parks overrun with rabbits and Canada geese.
Foraging for City Fruit on Bike Routes and Up Trees
Integrating Indigenous food systems like forest gardens into today’s urban setting will take some work. But we can look at models of food sharing and community building in Indigenous societies to help us reimagine what is possible in non-Indigenous urban centres…
Tuning Into The Future
As Carver, Kimmerer, Stamets, and many mystics and shamans have written, life (god, plants fungi, trees, and grasses) sings all around us. The question is, are we listening?
Urban Farms, Community Gardens and Local Produce at Your Doorstep
So I’m setting off on a quest to find fresh and affordable food here in Vancouver and documenting my findings in a four-part series.
Beyond rescue ecomodernism: the case for agrarian localism restated
Anyway, that’s the ground where I stand: convinced of the need for ruralization and an orderly turn to agrarian localism so that it doesn’t happen by default in a disorderly way…
The Future Is…
So where people are going to live is probably going to sort itself out. Just like it always has. Still… it’s probably a good idea to get started. We have an awful lot of work to do…
Foraging
But I’d like to be able to take what I need out of the garden and then, rather than fretting over all the veg that will go to waste because I can’t eat it or store it, just open it up to the neighborhood.
The Seed Savers of Sahyadri School
This film is a documentary on the conservation of indigenous seeds by Sahyadri School, KFI, Khed, Pune, in the western state of Maharashtra in India.
For a new politics of ruralization
The case for ruralism over urbanism as I see it is simply that the dynamics of climate, energy, water, soil and political economy are going to propel multitudes of people to the world’s farmable regions sooner or later.
