Reclaiming the Desert
Because there is no other option and no better deal for the natural capital, soil, biodiversity and climate. Our task is to accelerate this transition and to avoid doing even more damage.
Food & Water
A Soil Scientist’s Perspective – Carbon Farming, CO2 Certification & Carbon Sequestration in Soil
What is needed are a high humus content and an active soil life. However, it cannot be the task of agriculture to “capture” greenhouse gases caused by industrial production and permanently store them in soils.
Cultivating Food Security with Mini-Gardens
CH’s Mini-Garden project was the perfect solution to reaching those with limited lawn-space and reducing in-person contact during the pandemic.
Some further thoughts on organic fertility
I’m going to continue my theme from my last post about organic fertility in future farming, picking up on a few of the very interesting comments that people made in response to it.
Intensive Fishing and the Birth of Capitalism, Part 3
But for the merchants who were the primary promoters, financiers and often warriors on the English side, it was an economic war — if they had read von Clausewitz, they might have said that their war was business conducted by other means.
The real value of water
Even when we value embedded water as an economic good, we owe it to ourselves and future generations to treat water in a way that recognizes it first and foremost as invaluable.
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…
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.
