Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Unfortunately there aren’t many foods that contain meaningful amounts of Vitamin D, and all of them are from either animals or fungi, the latter of which are more closely related to animals than they are to plants.
What do you draw from your roots? What remedies are you cultivating? What is your vision of our future?
What if the solution for reducing our collective carbon footprint were right under our feet?
I spent part of last week at a workshop offered by the Mudgirls, a natural building collective in British Columbia.
The city is more than just office space, but a place to discover and nurture the values that make it more than the sum of its parts.
A garden is so much more than flowers alone.
In the spirit of the old saying that “My meat is in my brother’s belly,” I’m trying to prepare my household for tough times ahead by working with my neighbors to make my whole town more resilient.
I readily acknowledge that there’s more to the idea of nutrient density than calorie content, so this post will be the first in a series that looks at other nutritional elements of food, beginning with Vitamin A.
One conversation, one community event, one social enterprise, one ‘aha!’ moment at a time. And hoping for the best. This is the long game.
The concept of a food forest has its roots in permaculture, a philosophy that advocates for managing agricultural landscapes in harmony with nature.
As farmer Mamani stated, “It’s time traditional knowledge and science work together.”
Over the past decade, a number of thinkers have tried to imagine how a post peak-oil, energy-descent future might manifest.
