Grassroots Activists Tackle Food Waste and the Refugee Crisis
What does food waste and the refugee crisis have in common?
building resilient food systems
What’s the Best Way to Improve Bee Habitat?
Large-scale landscape change — loss of wildflower-rich prairies to crop monoculture or conversion of open lands to suburban development, for instance — is a threat to pollinators and may play a major role in declines by making it harder for bees and other pollinators to find a meal.
As Primary Goal, Two Decades Old Community Farm in Tennessee Teaches People to Grow Food Sustainably
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The True Cost of Food
For true cost accounting to work, we must share knowledge and data, and adopt a more systemic way of thinking.
Farming Formerly Vacant Lots, Urban Ag Program Grows New Farmers and Fresh Produce for Food Deserts
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Reinventing Farming for Better Food and a Better Future
Old McDonald of E-I-E-I-O fame would feel right at home on Essex Farm, a 600-acre spread in the Adirondacks where the future of American agriculture is being radically reconceived.
Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion: The Guerrila Update
I believe that is one of the things we’ve all learned since 1986. Neo-liberal governments have shut down action much more than they have shut down research and policy, and that’s one of the reasons why peaceful guerilla methods need to be explored.
Terre de Liens: Experiencing and Managing Farmland as Commons
In this small, pastoral village of the French Pre-Alps, establishing young farmers is an act of will.
Local Government Support Bolsters Urban Farming Movement in Salt Lake County, UT
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Decision Time
There can only be one topic for a blog post today, as a great country stands poised to make a momentous decision with potentially global repercussions… I refer, of course, to the Peasants’ Republic of Wessex…
Decision Time
Such is the recipe for our farming decisions: pragmatic optimism, seasoned with conservative management of resources; ample hard work; choices made based on what is possible. Ah, that our political leaders adhered to the same.
Reconnecting to our Land
How far back in your family history do you have to go to find someone who made a living working the land?