By Christine Page, Sustainable Food Trust
Consumers increasingly care about where their food comes from, how it is produced and how it impacts their health. This is generating demand for sustainable food and has enabled the recent resurgence of small-scale farming that produces environmentally sound and ethical produce.
By Chris Smaje, Small Farm Future
And so I come to my final blog post of 2016, and what a year it’s been. I’ve been asked by Dark Mountain to write a retrospective of it, which I hope will be up on their website soon. I’ll be offering some thoughts on the larger events of the world in that post, so here I’m mostly just going to offer a few nuggets focused on my specific theme of small-scale farming, and its future.
By Chris Smaje, Small Farm Future
Without further ado, I’m going to describe the layout of an ‘average’ 10 hectare holding in the Peasant’s Republic of Wessex, circa 2039, as introduced in various preceding posts.
By Brian Miller, South Roane Agrarian
There is a moment that comes every year, usually about this time, when the heat and humidity kills all ambition on the farm.
By Brian Miller, South Roane Agrarian
A celebration of farming through the senses.