Two Urban Farms in Ohio Offer Hope and Food Access to Community in Need
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building resilient food systems
Young farmers, Brexit and Future Prospects
While there remains a good deal of uncertainty, it is clear to me that Brexit provides an opportunity to advocate for a more sustainable approach to agriculture, to boost its profile on what will be a new national policy agenda for food and farming.
California Seed Sharing Bill Signed into Law
Seed sharing in California took a major step forward on Friday when Governor Jerry Brown signed into law the California Seed Exchange Democracy Act, an amendment to the California Seed Law. It’s the latest victory in a global movement to support and protect seed sharing and saving.
Why the Food Movement is Unstoppable
In the simplest terms possible, the opposite of neoliberal ideology is not communism or socialism, it is the food movement.
Two Tribes
After two centuries of relentless urbanist propaganda, we’ve almost lost even the very language with which we might plausibly set out radical ruralist alternatives.
Unused Capacity: The Secret Stash that Can Fuel the Next Generation of City Food Entrepeneurs
Thanks to entrepreneurial ability to find and use the resources hidden by mass stupidity, food advocates can almost set the world in the right direction by making use of unused capacity.
Capital Questions
The University of the District of Columbia is leading the charge in transforming the food system in a city challenged with high levels of poverty, obesity, and population growth.
Urban Beekeeper Delivers Pollinators by Bike to Community Gardens Across Chicago
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The Great Tear-Down
So I feel a particular sadness watching old barns fall into disuse or being torn down before their time, the wood destined to deck a second home on the lake or, more often, simply bulldozed and burned.
Nutrition in Neo-Peasant Wessex
In my last post I presented a picture of the production on an ‘average’ 10 hectare holding in the future Peasant’s Republic of Wessex. Here I’m going to update that picture slightly in the light of some of the comments I received and then take a look at what sort of diet such a holding would turn out for its inhabitants.
The Big Picture of Wasted Food
If we want to see food waste, we have to look beyond landfill sites.
Once the Largest Farming County in US, Los Angeles’s Agricultural Roots Laid Bare in New Book
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