Letter From The Farm | Winterage In The Burren
We’re back on Shane Casey’s farm in the Burren, Ireland, where it’s nearly time for the reverse transhumance cattle drive – or ‘winterage’ as it’s known locally.
Food & Water
When Reparations Grow From the Grassroots
This whole idea of the ‘land of the free,’ this idea of democracy and triumphalism, is false,” Farmer says. “So both on a symbolic level and a material level, it’s very hard to reckon with, because [making reparations] means undermining white supremacy.”
Warre and peace: of gifts, government and men with guns
Anyway, as governments wrestle with the increasingly impossible predicaments of our times, it seems to me likely that this space of publics versus governments will become a lot more politically diverse. And that’s the point at which the question of ‘public ownership’ becomes a really live issue.
Letter From The Farm | A Swiss Shepherdess In Bohemia
It’s a source of satisfaction to Jacqueline that she and her family are very much present in the fields around the village where they live.
One reason she wanted to become a farmer was to see animals in the pastures.
How India’s Farmers Launched a Movement Against Modi’s Farm Bills—and Won
The Indian farmers’ protest is a model for all struggling people worldwide. Their relentless and sustained protest shows that a sure resolve, control of resources, and perseverance is key to winning against neoliberal forces worldwide and ushering in a world where working people are the focus of national economic policies.
To waste or to waist
At the heart of both the environmental crisis and the obesity crisis is the capitalist market economy. It is the definition of capitalism that capital is multiplied.
Oxford Real Farming Conference 2022 | New Dawn For Solidarity
After three action-packed days, the Oxford Real Farming Conference 2022 ended on a positive note, forging hope from solidarity.
Planting Agroecology in the Sacred Desert of Wirikuta
All had come to Las Margaritas to attend a free intensive agroecology workshop led by Gerardo Ruiz Smith, a Mexican regenerative agriculture expert, and coordinated by the Wixarika Research Center as the first stone of a long-term project that seeks to restore and regenerate the desert in what many have come to call the “botanical garden” of Wirikuta.
France | Change Is In Our Hands – Part 1
Marion and Benjamin welcome us in the farm yard with a big smile. Their farm, “Le Buis Sonnant” in Brittany, is a place that quietly questions the current state of farming and how it’s changing. Buying land, succession, sharing of responsibilities… discussion around the hot topics is even-handed and open-minded.
Oxford Real Farming Conference 2022 in review
Our conversations at the ORFC are so valuable, especially as we move forward in a world that sits on a tipping point. We need to share these conversations with people outside our relatively small circle of believers.
Sand talking: can indigenous wisdom save the world?
if indigenous thinking is truly going to save the world it’ll be a long-haul thing in which people learn or relearn how to become indigenous to their local place in locally specific ways.
Agroecology and Community Feminism: Nurturing Territories
This potential to reproduce collective life is precisely the aspiration of community feminisms, but it is also the aspiration of agroecology!
