Black Growing Traditions
Today, there is a growing movement to redefine the historical Black experience with land ownership and raising crops.
Building resilient food and farming systems
40 years of organic agriculture
What the future holds for us is certainly not certain. As you embark on a journey, you don’t really need a goal, but you need a direction and the means to travel, even if it is just your feet.
Fake Food vs Farm Fresh Food
No ifs, no buts, and please – more small farms producing real food for everyone, and no more IPES!
Feeding Ourselves 2023 – Building Bridges for Rural Resilience
Although there is no cookie-cutter template for socio-ecological transition, it’s important to build bridges between communities working for fair food systems and resilient rural areas around and beyond Europe.
France | Democratising Food Policy – Tweaking The Financial Toolbox
In bottom-up movements towards a more socio-ecological countryside, food is a key driver of territorial dynamics. This was a finding of our research on the ground in phase 1 of the Rural Resilience project. In phase 2, we ask how a top-down tool such as France’s Territorial Food Programmes can help to democratise local food policy.
From Shrinking to Resilience – Lessons Learned at the Latvian Rural Parliament
Translating research on “smart shrinking” in rural Iowa into a European context, Elena and Mathieu propose a “smart rebound”, in which funding and policy support the visions, actions and intergenerational collaboration of rural communities, for resilience, wellbeing and reduction within environmental limits.
Preaching to the converted: or, my week in the science wars
Hopefully my writing and maybe even my speaking might convince a few waverers from getting hoodwinked by some of the more preposterous ecomodernist claims, but mostly I’m happy to preach to the converted…
UN should be learning from sustainable food producers – not hosting Big Ag
Hundreds of grassroots groups have called out the UN, saying they are still being excluded and claiming the summit is “poised to repeat the failures” of two years ago and want to see fundamental change in food systems.
Anne Biklé and David Montgomery: “Nourishing the Land and Ourselves”
On this episode, Nate is joined by “free range biologist” Anne Biklé and “broad-minded geologist” David Montgomery – a married duo who have been educating about the link between soil and human health for nearly a decade.
Letter From The Farm | Restoring Nature, Improving Productivity
For millennia, farmers in the Burren have played a central role in supporting the rich biodiversity and cultural heritage of the region.
What’s real
Making hay is essential in all the ways that Julius Caesar and empires and everything to do with the narratives of men are not.
Growing food is work!
Growing food is just like every other exercise – no one learns to rock climb, knit, box, embroider, run, dance, make art, build things, etc… without a LOT of time being less productive than they’d like to be to get the skill set.