Saving Seeds and Saving Vegetables: A Multibook Review
Say you’re an experienced gardener, adept at sowing and transplanting, weeding and harvesting. You’re ready for the next step in self-sufficiency…
building resilient food systems
12 Agrihoods Taking Farm-to-table Living Mainstream
Ever wish you could live at your CSA? Or move to a neighborhood where everyone is as excited about fresh, healthy food as you are?
Food Justice: What it Means and Why We Need it
If everyone who touched food (including both farm workers and farmers) made enough money to pay for high quality food out of their wages, our food system would be on its way to greater fairness and long-term economic viability.
Food as a Commons
In California, the prototype of a combined social, political and technical solution has been launched which promises to unlock the food system crisis.
Growing the food movement
Movements are big, and even if you believe that small is beautiful, in this case, it’s counter-productive.
Getting beyond just wheat, corn, and rice
What was the last grain you ate? Chances are very good it was wheat, corn or rice…
Can the Soil Save Us from Climate Change?
“The only way to bring [CO2] down is through plants…”
You gotta roll with it
At one time, real bread bakeries could be found at the heart of almost every neighbourhood, providing skilled employment opportunities for people from that community, and allowing everyone else to find a key staple foodstuff within walking distance.
Jamaica Plain New Economy Transition: Food, livelihoods and bridging race & class divides
Economic resilience is multivalent, and JP is full of people with great ideas for building it.
Black Farming, Self Determination and Resilience
Dr. Monica White – through her work on Black farmers and liberation movements – taught me (or reminded me, because it was in my ancestral memory) that there is a very powerful relationship between African Americans and the land that must be remembered.
Rise of the anti-mafia land movement
Leave the gun, take the cannoli’, the iconic quote from The Godfather reflecting the relationship between food and the Mafia that is a continuing reality in Italy.
Lonely Mountain Farm
Kenny Baker’s path to farming was an unlikely one.