By Ursula Billington, ARC2020
The original Street Goat concept focused on turning disused land into productive space: bringing goats in to clear scrub, improving sustainability whilst providing a workable model for non-intensive urban dairy production.
By Derrick Gentry, The Owl Light News
So, what kind of a future does this book envision, and how does it differ from the past and the present?
By Jen Scott, A Growing Culture
The weekly #HUNGERFORJUSTICE Broadcast Series lays the building blocks for a post-COVID food system. Watch the recording of our first episode: The Intersection of Gender Equality and Agroecology with Seno Tsuhah and Wekoweu Akole Tsuhah, moderated by Jen Scott.
By Laura Markowitz, Transition US
Plenty of farmers might like to plant an extra row for their community, but may need a helping hand to pull it off.
By Landworkers' Alliance Staff, Landworkers Alliance
FLAME is made up of young people who believe that the way we produce food and eat it can be a solution to creating a better world.
By Ursula Billington, ARC2020
Undaunted by the challenge of growing grapes in rainy England, the family-run Aldwick Estate turned to wine production as a way to improve soil health.
By Patrick Holden, Sustainable Food Trust
I gained the impression, perhaps unfairly, that none of the so-called experts who were presenting had any practical knowledge of, or insights into, regenerative farming.
By David Bollier, Free, Fair, and Alive
The appropriation of seeds raises a profound challenge to farmers and, really, everyone, because we all have to eat.
By Colin Anderson, Agroecology Now!
This new open access book develops a framework for advancing agroecology in transformations towards more just and sustainable food systems focusing on power, politics and governance.
By David Bollier, David Bollier blog
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.
By Mary Wildfire, Resilience.org
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.
By Bill Vitek, MerionWest
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?