Modern Small-Scale Farming: Could it Sustain Us? Could we Sustain It?

By Rachel Quednau, Strong Towns

The persistent question for me as we explore local food issues here at Strong Towns is: Could any of our communities actually survive on local food alone? Could we ever get to a point where local food makes up most of our diets and where local farmers are successfully supplying that? These questions (inspired by the Strong Towns Strength Test) have been buzzing in the back of my mind and, while I want to believe it’s feasible to live off of local food, the more I study this, the more I realize it would be pretty darn tough, if not impossible.

Chicken out:  dispatching Daisy Mae

By Linton Hale, Resilience

We humans tend not to name individual animals we plan to eat.  Somehow naming them seems to make it harder to look them in the eye, if one is considering eating them.  We called her Daisy Mae.  On Sunday I took her into my hands, petted her and thanked her for the many eggs she had given us. 

Low Carbon Cookbook – Cold Comfort Food

By Charlotte Du Cann, Transition Norwich Blog

Although there were still cosmos and California poppy flowering in the gardens, winter had put his bony leafless hand on the pot and suddenly we were all thinking Roots.