Holistic Grazing for Long-Term Resilience
A recent ‘Open-Gate’ day at Croome Court, organised by RegenAg UK and sponsored by Holistic Management International, showed just how beneficial the holistic management of livestock can be.
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A Farmer’s Guide to Brexit
I promised a Brexit two-parter with a second post on agriculture, so that’s what I aim to deliver.
30 Ways Cities Can Prepare for Global Warming
There’s a good reason (actually, 30 good reasons covered here…) why no-one has been able to come up with a better term for what’s called “urban agriculture.”
Harvest Club Looks to Backyard Groves to Feed the Hungry
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In Venezuela’s Difficult Times the Grassroots are Stronger
‘People are starting to understand how food works. There is no way to move forward until communities become involved in food and production.
Another Side to Food Waste
The food waste debate has gone mainstream…However, there is one side to the story that is often overlooked: the impact of food waste in the Global South.
Book Review: The Scoop On Poop
Dan Chiras: "The most affluent have become the most effluent." Dr. Pooper: "You humans have big brains, but you’ve got even bigger arseholes."
The Chicago Honey Co-op Works with a Hive Mind
Bees are essential to food production. In response to the massive, global colony collapse problem, myriad urban beekeeping organizations have cropped up around the country.
I Trust Cows More than I Trust Chemists
How is it in this country we are so willing to look at technology and say that it will solve all of our problems?
A New Chapter of Agricultural Practice
Although to a degree the soil remains and perhaps always will be a dark and mysterious world – the phrase from the hymn comes to mind “in light inaccessible, hid from our eyes” – the microbiome revelation has definitely brought about a shift in my approach to soil management.
Looking for Food in All the Wrong Places
Thus far, the government of Mozambique has dutifully reformed its seed laws to conform, creating obstacles to the kinds of real solutions – to hunger, poverty, and climate change – farmers in Marracuene are creating for themselves.
Feeding Cities from Within
Urban agriculture is sprouting up all over the world.
