Waking Up To The Power Of Mushrooms
Fungi were only granted Kingdom of Life status in the 1960’s, yet they possess a wealth of unique qualities and a dramatic potential to shape our lives.
Food & Water
Swidden as politics
But the choice of swidden that interests me most for my present purposes is when it’s adopted as a way to avoid being caught in a political net of constant productivity gain and, ultimately, state centralization and ‘modernization’.
The Gift of Ecological Humility
Many of us have forgotten that our cultural heritage as Black people includes ecological humility, the idea that humans are kin to, not masters of, nature.
Five Surprising Benefits of Shopping Less Often
Nearly a year ago when cases of Covid-19 started rising in my area, one of the first things I did was alter my shopping routine.
The Cull: Scotland’s Deer Dilemma
The Cull is an award-winning documentary that explores the controversial topic of deer management in the Scottish Highlands, illustrating the complexity of a debate which has been going on for decades.
Letter From The Farm | Between Hotbeds And The Hungary Gap
So, how do we resolve those tensions between light and dark, between scarcity and abundance? Well, we do and we don’t. Sometimes you just have to resort to patience, resourcefulness and the cycling of the seasons to move on from and come back to those age-old tensions.
Tribes Revive Traditional Hemp Economies
With 10,000 uses, hemp is one of the most versatile plants to grow—and in many ways can be a catalyst for change for Native peoples.
Think inside the right box
In my talk, I encouraged the participants to think inside the box of Norrbotten for food production. What can actually be produced in a good way on their lands?
India’s farmers’ protests are about more than reform — they are resisting the corporate takeover of agriculture
Hundreds of thousands of farmers have been rallying against three new laws that have thrown open the agriculture sector to private players.
From Russia To Love: Engaging with Chris Newman on the small family farm
Continuing my theme concerning peasant farming in this blog cycle about my book A Small Farm Future, the general focus of this post is how and why revived neo-peasantries might help meet present global challenges.
Podcast from the Prairie: “Hogs Are Up: Stories of the Land, with Digressions”
In this penultimate episode of the first season of “Podcast from the Prairie,” Wes Jackson and Robert Jensen discuss Jackson’s new book, Hogs Are Up: Stories of the Land, with Digressions.
Comparing Organic, Agroecological and Regenerative Farming part 3 – Regenerative
On a European and global level, it can be observed that not only corporations but also decision-makers repeatedly resort to terms such as “regenerative” or “agroecological” if they want to avoid verifiable changes to the system and therefore want to avoid the explicit naming of organic farming, because it is clearly defined and leaves no room for interpretation.
