Harvest Home

Even if this isn’t the end of the harvest or the end of the year, it is the end of the season of growth. It is just on the cusp of the time of contraction and repose, the time of death for many short-lived beings. So this is a natural time to think on the cycles of life.

Reclaiming food sovereignty: How Feed Black Futures is challenging structural racism through food justice

Feed Black Futures breathes life into Hamer’s words by training participants to start and nurture backyard, apartment, and community gardens — and to advocate for food sovereignty policies and practices that enable marginalized communities to gain access to fresh food production and equitable food distribution.

We Need Predators!

We need to foster balance even if that means that sometimes careless pet keepers will lose their cat to a hunting owl, even if we have to re-train ourselves to live with coyotes by not putting garbage outside where they can eat it rather than the rats, even if we have to hold regular deer hunts, rabbit culls and autumn feasts that feature large, fattened rodents — because we are predators also.