Eating at the Old Growth Table
At the Old Growth table, we honor the ingredients as the wisdom keepers they are. And we humbly nod to the Ancestors who have kept our birthrights and lifeways intact.
May 17, 2024
Barefoot Biodynamics: Excerpt
An immediate halt to chemical fertilizing and returning to the use of compost instead would turn degeneration into regeneration.
May 15, 2024
The methane ruminations
Methane belching by grazing ruminants should not be seen as “emissions” that have to be mitigated.
May 14, 2024
Dr. Seuss and the weight-loss drug craze
The chemical soup we live in every day is a major cause of chronic disease including obesity that no weight-loss drug can address.
May 12, 2024
Cooking Sections’ Singular Stew of Art, Activism, and Local Food
What impresses me about Cooking Sections’ art and activism is their ability to show that climate change is not something distant and abstract, something that politicians and experts will somehow take care of. The CLIMAVORE work shows that climate is utterly personal and local.
May 9, 2024
Cultivating Beauty
I think the reason that gardeners and small-scale farmers have such passion about their calling is that their deepest needs are satisfied. I am calling it beauty but it is more than that. It is fullfilling a longing.
May 8, 2024
What Liberal Elites Don’t Know About Rural Americans Can Hurt Us
The truth is that when this nation chose to eliminate four million farmers (with their families, hired help, buildings, and boundaries) on the advice of the colleges of agriculture, the agricultural bureaucracy, and the agribusiness corporations, it committed a sort of cultural genocide.
May 7, 2024
The Dirt On Soil
In this series we explore why soil health matters, how it’s related to our worsening climate crisis, and what individuals and communities can do to protect it.