Back to Organic Farming
Emma Ben-Haouala Bernegger has established her own brand of organic products in Tunisia, reviving traditional methods.
building resilient food systems
The Seed Within Planting the Seed
The positive side of the fragmented thinking evident in our current systems is that it results in a proliferation of points of effective action everywhere the systems are breaking down. Here we look at how the permaculture strategy of stacking functions can help us engage these opportunities.
An Ode to the Meat and Three
Oh, how I yearn for the return of the meat and three. The simple joy of knowing that with a quick turn off the highway, any small town in the South yielded a diner that served up the sacred trifecta — that assurance brought comfort to restless, dark nights.
It’s the Food Economy, Stupid!
If we grew the oats we should eat for breakfast or baking, we would plant 25000 more hectares in oats that would generate 241 new jobs and $3.8 million in taxes…but it might cause a decline in sales of laxatives…
Scratch An American, Find A Farmer
Old sayings like “scratch a Christian, find a pagan” or “scratch a Russian, find a Tartar,” have a counterpart in agriculture: Scratch an American, find a farmer.
Uncommon Nonprofit Embraces Urban Agriculture to Break Cycle of Poverty
In 2011, Nancy Mintie, founder of Claremont, CA-based Uncommon Good saw in urban agriculture an opportunity to help fulfill her organization’s mission to break intergenerational poverty cycles and give people the tools to lift themselves up.
How Collaboration is Saving Rare Coastline and Ancient Olive Farms in Southern Italy
Food in Italy is not just about nutrition, it’s also about lifestyle, culture, and sharing.
Joel Salatin: The Promise of Regenerative Farming
Front man for the sustainable/regenerative farming movement, Joel Salatin, returns to the podcast this week.
Sustainable Growing for Social Good
It’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking about sustainable growing in strictly environmental terms.
The Farm that Grows Climate Solutions
High in the mountains of Veracruz, Mexico, a small cooperative is “farming carbon” — practicing agriculture in a way that fights climate change while simultaneously meeting human needs.
New Equations of Regions, People, Nature and Food Chains
We usually think of geologists as going deep, but when it comes to working through the layers of meaning behind local food, geographer Terry Marsden knows how to dig very deep.
Food Youth: The Next Generation of the Food Movement is Coming Up
I had the chance to speak with three young people, to learn more about their experience with food and their motivations to meaningfully connect with it.
