Going bananas: Why the approach to the latest banana blight misses the point
The ongoing “banana apocalypse” shows us how vulnerable our agricultural methods are making our food supply.
Food & Water
Recycling the Discarded
Greenfield, Massachusetts’s Compost Co-op gives ex-inmates a living wage through meaningful work.
In Defense of the Herring People
The herring do not have voices. That’s why people like Khasheechtlaa Louise Brady and the Herring Protectors must speak for them.
Letter from the Farm | Wild Geese and Tamed Farming – is it All for the Birds?
The farm shop taking the lead on Jan Gonne’s farm could indeed be his lucky punch – if island tourism and the currently only alternative to the supermarket stay profitable.
We really need a plan
We talk the talk about getting back to basics, living small, learning simple crafts, honoring indigenous wisdom, being part of the natural world…Well, now it’s time to fully embrace our intentions… while we still can..
Will science and technology save us?
My point is certainly not that science as such is bad, but that we should not put it too high on the pedestal and in that process disregard other ways to understand what it is to be human and how we should live.
Newsflash No.2: manufactured food update
Given the basically non-existent ‘transition’ into clean energy outlined in my previous post which is failing to meet even existing needs for energy, the vast increase in renewable electricity generation that would be required to fund the additional energy demands of manufactured food if it’s to play any major part in a sustainable future makes this technology a non-starter as a mass food approach.
Feeding the birds
Because the birds you attract to a habitat — rather than just a feeder — will be eating a varied diet — including those mosquitos. And you will also be creating space for other mosquito predators, like frogs, bats, mantises, turtles and more. You are rebuilding the balanced world a little bit at a time.
Letter from Christiansen Farm – Breeding Time
Organic breeding techniques have a different relationship to time and place than genetic engineering methods; other aspects of being in a market economy and of using specialised machinery have their own relationships to time too.
Markets can’t save us
The economy, aka capitalism, is governed by growth and competition. Therefore, the currently popular notion that businesses or the private sector will drive sustainability is delusional.
Why I cook and garden
But… I have to admit that hope is not why I garden nor why I cook. Not really. I do these things because they make me happy.
Making gardens useful
I want my garden to be useful. And that means it should produce a harvest that I can use. It also means it should provide home and shelter to as many other beings as possible.