Farming: A Not-For-Profit Enterprise?
What if the economics of money profit and loss, under capitalism, or socialism, or a monarchy or any other system, doesn’t really work for farming.
What if the economics of money profit and loss, under capitalism, or socialism, or a monarchy or any other system, doesn’t really work for farming.
Recent research on the role of bacteria suggests we need a radical rethink about what makes us healthy
It’s said that money makes the world go round. But since money is a proxy for energy, it would be closer to say that energy makes the world go round. But they’re both wrong. Truth is, shit makes the world go round.
How can people in difficult circumstances build autonomous lives? The answer might be found in the Jardins de Cocagne: by cultivating vegetables.
New entrants to farming in Britain are often faced with a long list of challenges before they even put their wellies on.
An agrarian economy…rises up from the soils, fields, woods, streams, rangelands, hills, mountains, backyards, and rooftops.
Why GMO? How many people could all the empty yards in a suburban block feed if they were put to use growing food?
No doubt, as long as members of our race have felt consoled by the comforting embrace of empire, they have felt the snare grip their ankle as they tried to reclaim whatever was felt to them as an authentic life.
That’s the motto and battle cry of a fairly new (2011) organization called Urban Shepherds.
A global shift to regenerative organic agriculture can reverse climate change. In fact, regenerative organic agriculture is the only viable option available to us and is readily achievable.
Campesinos, or rural farmers, are vital for any country.
With escalating land prices is it even possible to buy a piece of land to call your own?