Tuning Into The Future

By Susan Jennings, Agraria

As Carver, Kimmerer, Stamets, and many mystics and shamans have written, life (god, plants fungi, trees, and grasses) sings all around us. The question is, are we listening?

Growing a Revolution: Excerpt

By David R. Montgomery, Resilience.org

The promise of conservation agriculture to bring life back to the land and support biodiversity both above and belowground should appeal to environmentalists and farmers alike. For like it or not, a large part of nature will be what lives on farms, because we now use more than a third of the world’s ice-free land area for growing crops and raising animals.

Seed to Wealth

By Uche Isieke, Resilience.org

The Rural Watch Africa Initiative (RUWAI) Seed To Wealth program is helping rural farmers in Nigeria to achieve sustainable income for livelihoods.

What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 82 Betsy Taylor

By Vicki Robin, Betsy Taylor, Resilience.org

Betsy Taylor is president of Breakthrough Strategies & Solutions LLC. For over thirty years, Betsy Taylor has built a solid reputation as a philanthropic advisor, social change leader, motivational speaker and problem solver. She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”

Letter From The Farm | A Year In Review

By Mateusz Ciasnocha, ARC2020

One of the key learnings of 2021 is the necessity to think AND act in a systemic and holistic way – a manner that builds bridges rather than breaks them down, or questions existing ones.

Healing Grounds: Excerpt

By Liz Carlisle, Resilience.org

I needed to speak to people whose ancestors had experienced the slaughter of their bison herds, the enslavement of their entire family, the brutal exploitation of migratory farm work, or incarceration at the hands of their own government while their crops were left to rot.

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.

Refugio Tinti: Reflections of Nature’s Design

By Geoffrey Holland, MAHB

Apart from being a wildlife sanctuary and a permacultural model farm, the Refugio is an education and consultation center for reforestation practices and regenerative agriculture. 

Regenerative agriculture in the Amazon

By Lars Hillewaere, Ecosystem Restoration Camps

EcoAraguaia Farm of the Future is a former cattle ranch in the Amazon rainforest with a big mission: to show the world how producing food, restoring nature, and creating livelihoods can go hand in hand. The key to all of this? Regenerative agriculture: a holistic system for managing the land that integrates people, planet, and profit.

Farming Bounded By Our Biological Boundaries – Part 2

By Stuart Meikle, ARC2020

A sustainable food system is one that will be able to generate nutrients from natural sources, and without using fossil-fuel supplied energy.

Where do we go from here?

By Alicia Miller, Sustainable Food Trust

We need to move forward with agroecological regenerative mixed rotational farming that embraces a holistic engagement with the land that is farmed, ensuring that everything in and on it has a place within a frame of practice that could be called ‘Ecology Now’.

India’s Natural Farming Revolution Shows Bold Food Systems Change Is Happening Now

By Lauren Baker, Resilience.org

Community Managed Natural Farming (CMNF) eschews the use of synthetic chemical fertilisers, pesticides, and herbicides, catalyzing a radical paradigm shift from conventional chemical based farming to agroecological-based natural farming methods across the state.