Saving Farmland, Supporting Young Farmers
It’s a bit odd that land reform is barely mentioned in most progressive agendas. Maybe that’s because it is seen as challenging the presumed virtues of private property and capitalist markets.
Food & Water
How capitalism started, and why it still matters
In fact, capitalism isn’t particularly about markets or selling things. This needs stressing over and over, because powerful narratives to the contrary repeatedly fool us into supposing otherwise.
Perilous Bounty: Review
Tom Philpott has a book out that examines the impending crises in US agriculture caused by short-sightedness, a relentless profit motive, and the power of corporations over US farm policy.
Bill Vitek: In Pursuit of Better Agriculture (and a Better Society)
About 40 years ago, Wes Jackson at the Land Institute in Salina, Kansas asked this radical question: Why can’t we have perennial grains? Since grains make up about 65% of worldwide calories, why not develop perennial versions?
Independent thinking: Why local businesses need our support this Christmas
So, if you’re planning on celebrating this Christmas – albeit unconventionally – here are some of the reasons why, now more than ever, independent businesses need your support.
Rekindling Family Farming at Owl Oak Acres
People need to eat. People need to have clothes to wear. So it’s important, it really is. For me, it’s about preserving that in whatever way we can.
Solidarity Forever: Initiatives in the Global South as a model of the post-COVID-19 solidarity economy
“Unlike identity, solidarity is not something you have, it is something you do – a set of actions taken toward a common goal…[It] is the practice of helping people realize that they – that is to say, we – are all in this together.”
The Justice for Black Farmers Act
We are very pleased with and excited about the outcomes of the Justice for Black Farmers Act as it stands today and are asking our members, comrades and supporters to sign on to this piece of legislation so that it has no choice but to pass.
Sustainable Fair & Conscious Eating
What does it look like when food not only nourishes our body & soul but also strengthens communities and lets ecosystems thrive? What is good food? What does it mean to eat sustainably, fair & consciously?
Beating the Bounds: Inside the Struggle to Make Open Source Seed
Commoners in medieval Europe variously employed boundary beating as physical mapping of space, territorial defense, and performative acts of community, collective memory, and shared responsibility.
Black Farm Cooperatives: Tangible Solutions
Discussion about how cooperative farming and racial equity in federal food policy can create economic sustainability in Black communities.
Agroecology or Collapse Part III – Reclaiming the ‘archaic’, ‘anarchic’, and ‘utopian’ as the language of food system transformation
Agroecology is archaic, anarchic, and utopian – of course it is and thank goodness! In the final post of this three-part series, Paulo Petersen and Denis Monteiro push back against the arguments often made against agroecology.
