Shaping Water and Soil at Inspiration Farm
If you grow good soil, everything else falls into place.
building resilient food systems
Improving diets: health-by-stealth
The key to Chicken Shop’s success and effectiveness is that they work with existing market forces instead of against them.
Get your oats here! Community support helps new enterprise transform local food supply chain
Grown in Totnes attempts to set a standard for ‘local’.
Our future farmers: Ragman’s Farm
As land prices soar, and the average age of farmers continues to climb, we desperately need new farmers, or risk having nobody to feed us in the future.
Urban Agriculture in Rust Belt Cities
In many Great Lakes “rust belt” cities, urban agriculture has emerged as a productive reuse of vacant land resultant from economic decline, population loss, and home foreclosures.
What happens at a Local Food “Lab”
This post outlines the key elements to this form of eater/producer/middle folk engagement to strengthen their local food systems.
Local Food Lab – Permaculture of Community
How can communities take hold of their food destiny? How can people-in-community even understand themselves as part of a food system (a permanent culture) they might care about – and reclaim?
Transition Towns and Beyond: The Ecological Land Co-operative
“Localization stands, at best, at the limits of practical possibility, but it has the decisive argument in its favour that there will be no alternative.”
Grass, Soil, Hope
“Grass, Soil, Hope is at the same time a challenging book, in that it asks us to reconsider our pessimism about the human engagement with the rest of nature.
Fermenting the future at Ballymaloe
In a world where everything is becoming increasingly downloadable, food is the last bastion of the tangible, direct, and purely sensory.
Kentucky Veterans Cultivate a Hemp Resurgence
All sub-species of the Cannabis plant were made illegal in 1938, and progress to re-legalize the plant has peaked and troughed for over 20 years.
Building Soil, Growing Food, Nurturing Relationships
People coming together to cooperatively grow food can form some powerful ties. And that’s what it’s all about at Peaceful Grounds.