Food activism: Avoiding the destruction of the imagination
What are we to make of Monsanto’s sponsoring of organic school gardens? Of local food bike tours made possible by Pepsi?
building resilient food systems
Mark Shepherd on Restoration Agriculture
Restoration agriculture calls for the re-imagination of agriculture in which perennial systems replace annual plantings and harvests that expire in one season and leave nothing behind except scorched earth, toxic runoff and carbon emissions.
The case for food hubs
The food hub concept, which is gaining traction throughout North America, holds the solution to a problem that continues to bedevil the local food movement, and that is lack of infrastructure.
Gardening for peanuts
If you have a long enough season, consider growing peanuts. Here’s how I grew, dried, and roasted last year’s crop.
Agriculture in a Changing World
"Agriculture is the oldest environmental problem," the Land Institute’s Wes Jackson tells us early in this 27-minute video.
The United Kingdom’s ‘This is Rubbish’ Calls for Food Waste Prevention in the Food Industry
The United Kingdom’s (UK) This is Rubbish (TiR) is currently seeking funding to help pilot the Industry Food Waste Audit Proposal (IFWAP), its first research project on food waste in the UK’s food industry.
Rosie Boycott on Capital Growth and scaling up urban agriculture
An enormous amount of benefits do flow from a community garden.
Food security
I was recently invited to an Open Space event hosted by the Bowen (Island) Agricultural Alliance (BAA!) and facilitated by my friend Chris Corrigan. It was a small group — about two dozen — but most of the people there were farmers. With my Transition-based knowledge of permaculture and food security, it was a humbling and eye-opening experience.
Veggies at the Liquor Store—and 5 Other Ways to Bring Food to Your Community
Out-of-the-box ideas for putting healthier food on our neighborhood plates—and make friends doing it.
Grow Appalachia: a better food system for America
Grow Appalachia is changing the way people throughout rural Appalachia relate to food.
Felicity Lawrence: How austerity’s “relentless drive to deregulate” impacts the food on our plate
Felicity Lawrence is a food writer and Guardian investigative journalist. When it comes to understanding the dark side of how the food industry works, she is the place to turn…