Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
To reach its full potential, a garden farm should embrace four areas: garden, pasture, tree grove, and the watery domain of pool, pond or creek… Of the four parts, the tree grove usually receives the least attention from garden farmers, which is why I have been writing about it so much…
An Update from Transition around the world
Powerdown Toolkit #3: It’s All Connected
New HopeDance
Green burials
Entropypawsed Chickens
A farm to teach the world to live without oil
Peak farm equipment?
New frontier in Colorado agriculture, HOPS
Chickens beat dogs in sustainability
Little Livestock for Urban and Suburban Gardens
Most environmentally friendly form of animal protein?
‘Eat The Suburbs’: a great short film on permablitzing
Film Review: “Establishing a Food Forest”
The challenges of being a Jewish farmer
Agriburbia idea grows in residential subdivisions
Prepare for the Best
Our culture of wasting food will one day leave us hungry
Catastrophic Fall in 2009 Global Food Production
The Geopolitics of Food Scarcity
The Reality Report interviews David Holmgren. David co-invented permaculture over 30 years ago and has been a practitioner and teacher ever since, both at his home in Australia and as a consultant around world. In 2002 he published the book Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability that reviewed permaculture in the context of peak energy. More recently, David created a web site called Future Scenarios, see www.futurescenarios.org. This interview is based on that web site and was recorded on July 14, 2008.
For a community to thrive in a complex environment, it must strike a delicate balance between planning proactively and remaining alert to emergent, unexpected changes.
The 100-mile diet
It’s Just Garbage
Tour that rocked the renewable energy world in Florida
The chief “product” of his business is mammoth jacks, but they are not the only animals he raises and sells. As we walk over the 180 acres, my astonishment grows. I have been on thousands of farms from the East Coast to the West, and never before have I seen such a variety or number of animals grazing per acre…Jack Siemon’s farm is a celebration of the earth’s vital forces.
Is America on the Brink of a Food Crisis?
Britain ‘must revive farms’ to avoid grave food crisis
Food security and global warming: Monsanto versus organic
Transition Network’s ‘Who We Are and What We Do’ Document Available
Adapting In Place: Whether, Why and Wherefore Ought Thou
Buried treasure: Vermonters rediscover root cellars
