Cider Planet: Excerpt

By Claude Jolicoeur, Resilience.org

One long-standing question, which is unresolved within the cider community, is that of a good definition of cider.

Rural Europe Takes Action | The Sámi Environmental Programme

By Josefina Skerk, ARC2020

I am proud of the Sámi parliament for creating the Environmental Programme – called Eallinbiras in Sámi. It is more of a life programme. We are trying to convey the Sámi culture to inspire others to have a more sustainable view on life.

Foraging for City Fruit on Bike Routes and Up Trees

By Michelle Gamage, The Tyee

Integrating Indigenous food systems like forest gardens into today’s urban setting will take some work. But we can look at models of food sharing and community building in Indigenous societies to help us reimagine what is possible in non-Indigenous urban centres...

William Cobbett’s ‘Cottage Economy’: the future is material

By Samuel Young, Medium.com

Cottage Economy is not, however, just a nineteenth-century DIY manual. It is also a fiercely polemical defence of smallholding as a way of life.

Mexican Farmers and Scientists Share a Mission: Saving a Wetland

By Lourdes Medrano, Undark

Eslava and Sumano are working together to preserve the region’s chinampas, remnants of the branch and reed rafts that Mesoamerican farmers covered in nutrient-rich lake mud to grow fruits, vegetables, and flowers.

How Indigenous Sea Gardens Produced Massive Amounts of Food for Millennia

By Ashley Braun, Hakai Magazine

By focusing on reciprocity and the common good—both for the community and the environment—sea gardening created bountiful food without putting populations at risk of collapse.

A local food renaissance in Wales

By Carwyn Graves, Resilience.org

The re-establishment in public discourse of a Welsh food culture, with its long history, its ingredients and methods, provides the possibility of a rooted baseline for the future of food in this country; open to change, but aware of its provenance.

Why the UN must rely more on indigenous wisdom and less on fossil fuels

By Jeremy Jiménez, Resilience.org

It is time for the United Nations and its various agencies to recognize that its top-down organizational structure is not suited to address our myriad ecological crises, and rather use its influence to advocate for, and allocate its resources to support, land custodianship for the millions of indigenous communities keeping alive the knowledge of how to live within the bounty of what our mother Earth provides.

Letter From The Farm | Bridging Worlds Old and New

By Claire Jeannerat, ARC2020

For both Claire and her husband, shepherding in the mountains is a lifestyle choice rather than a career. They endeavour to live this vocation in a manner that respects and upholds ancient traditions that are being lost in modern society, bridging a path between the old and new.

Resilient Agriculture: Cultivating Food Systems for a Changing Climate – Excerpt

By Laura Lengnick, Resilience.org

This excerpt from the second edition explores some of the lessons learned in the contemporary sustainable food movement, a movement that - although incomplete and imperfect - has devoted considerable effort to understanding what it means to feed ourselves without harm to land, people and community.

Association of Olopenses Women provides economic empowerment to rural Guatemalan workers

By Nithin Coca, Shareable

Real solutions, such as building an organization like the AMO, require time to build trust and relationships. It also means overcoming the legacy of failed government and nonprofit promises to impoverished communities.

Equality in a Zero Carbon Countryside

By The Land Staff, The Land Magazine

Demand for renewables and carbon storage could bring wealth to rural Britain — but who will benefit? Time for an update to our Rural Manifesto.