Learning From the Past in Kensal and Kilburn
Oral histories have been something that has fascinated the Transition movement since the outset.
Act: Inspiration
10 Reasons Why We Should Have Urban Goat Farms
We want to bring goats into the city. Not just for their milk and cheese, but also for the enjoyment of their company.
Common Good City Farm Brings D.C. Community Together
Common Good City Farm currently grows more than 60 varieties of vegetables, 30 culinary and medicinal herbs, and 10 fruits. Now, the organization is growing over 5,000 pounds of food each year to share with its community.
A Healthy Way to Build Communities
Mark Winne, an author and anti-hunger activist, often says that the most important word in “community garden” isn’t “garden.” I saw this firsthand not long ago.
Bigger than Both of Us
The region, or foodshed, is the right level of analysis for self-reliance (which the authors wisely distinguish from self-sufficiency.
Fumbling towards Independence
A more independent life need not be a distant redoubt to purchase but an ideal to fumble toward — in small steps, with help, in ways that are fulfilling and not overly complicated.
From Grower to Grocer: Building Community Food Systems
Across the UK the food sovereignty movement is growing. A budding plethora of networks are challenging the current corporate control of the food system and sowing the seeds of structured community food chains and holistic food economies.
Vermont’s Intervale Center’s Food Rescue Provides Fresh Produce for Methadone Clinic Patients
Excess fresh food is being provided to patients in the University of Vermont Medical Center’s methadone clinic. This keeps the extra food from being wasted!
Six Foundations – Presentation to Community Action Partnership
American towns and cities face a series of economic, environmental, and social justice challenges that hit the most disadvantaged communities especially hard.
Placemaking and the Human Scale City
everyone has the right to live in a human scale city, and one way to achieve this is through placemaking
In Photos: The Seed-Saving Farmers Who Pass Down Land to Their Daughters
In Meghalaya, indigenous women are keepers of the seeds that form the foundation of their food sovereignty, a conscious choice by small food producers to define their unique food systems and culture.
How Can We Kickstart Regional Resilience?
A world driven by fossil fuels tends to look same-y.
