Grace Olmsteads Uprooted Idaho, and my own
Grace Olmstead’s book may not be the final masterpiece of all possible localist argument, but it is a set of very smart reflections on localism and rural life…
Food & Water
The Paradoxes of Localism
I want my grandchildren to visit other places and countries and see different, unknown foods. I want them to feel like the world isn’t one giant airport lounge with sourdough and avocado toast on every menu.
Letter From The Farm | Welcome To The Herdade
I dream that one day all farmers of this planet will be really connected to the ecosystems they belong to, and to the social communities around them.
The Edible Houseplant Project
Thus began the edible houseplant and tropicals project. I’m hardly the only one doing things like this, but I’m determined to see what I can accomplish in particular, and how I can help others profit from it.
Around the world, Indigenous seed banks are helping to preserve culture, boost nutrition and protect the environment
From Guatemala to Oklahoma, communities are tackling multiple challenges by saving seeds of traditional agricultural crops.
New England Ecology
We need to adapt ourselves to living within these ecosystems again. And to do that in New England, we need to eat the damn deer.
Water is life: Can we protect it?
The irony that Texas, the state built on fossil fuels, was completely unprepared for extreme weather disasters shouldn’t be lost on anyone.
Can organic farming feed the world?
I discuss various aspects of so-called ‘alternative’ agriculture at some length in Chapter 6 of A Small Farm Future, and I don’t intend to retrace many of those steps here. But there’s a couple of further things I do want to say in this blog cycle. Here, I’ll focus on organic farming.
Roots of Resilience: How CAP, Farm to Fork, and Land Policies can Support an Agroecological Transition in Europe
It is time to rediscover the roots of our resilience by grounding land policy in collective action and democratic forms of land politics. That’s according to a new report led by Transnational Institute. T
Donations to Black-Led Food and Land Organizations Shift from Charitable Giving to True Reparations
Transferring wealth to Black-led groups is a particularly potent form of reparations with immediate benefits to communities of color.
Don’t throw the cow out with the feedlot
While there are many environmental and ethical reasons to criticize industrial forms of livestock production, there are no valid reasons to shun the rearing of livestock in general.
Planet Farm
As industrial agriculture encroaches into the last wild places of the Earth, it’s unleashing dangerous pathogens. Time to heal the metabolic rift between ecology and economy
