Imagining an ‘Eco-Logical’ Economy? Sea To Seed
I have never had a good relationship with the word ‘economy’. To me, the word made me think of finance regimes, rent, speculation, capitalistic crocodiles and frantic traders addicted to computerized screens. I wanted to study relationships between the members …
Growing for the Greater Good – Sea To Seed
By Crystal Stevens, author of Grow Create Inspire The soil is being destroyed at unprecedented rates by overconsumption, big business, …
The value in seeing your not alone & to share a collective vision – The Field Permaculture course recap.
To most farmers it would take a pretty good reason to leave the fields in the midst of harvest time; …
Seeds Are The Essence Of Life, Rowen White of Sierra Seed
Seeds are the essence of life, and Rowen is the co-founder of Sierra Seed Cooperative in Nevada City, CA. She broadens our view of seeds from a source of food to a vehicle for the transmission of culture itself. Thank you for your work, Rowen!
Over Grow The System Patch
Geoff Lawton : Dreams Of Self-sufficiency; Living In A Harmonious Way.
As soon as Geoff Lawton realized he was having “dreams of self-sufficiency and living in a harmonious way with natural systems,” he started getting involved with permaculture. This was way before permaculture was the buzz word that it is today. Through his work, the movement has spread to like-minded individuals the world over.
When We Attack Nature By Clearcutting Forests; Paving Farmland, We Attack Ourselves : Healing in the Natural World
Growing up in southern England and Wales, we always lived close to the woods, streams, and hills of the nearby countryside. The towns were built to be dense and tight, so it was relatively easy to walk out of the buildings and away from traffic into a land of kingfishers, beech trees, and marsh marigolds. It was “smart growth” before anyone had invented the term.
Geoff Lawton : Creating A Regenerative Future – Stories From A Fertile Earth
I was 16 years old in 1970 and I went through my adolescence with those early alternative dreams of being self sufficient and living a natural life. Even before that as a child I had a love for natural systems like fishing, hiking, and harvesting and gathering from the wilderness. I was forever and always fascinated in natural ways of farming and growing things and some how it just seems right to me. It was a natural evolution that once I discovered that there was actually a design science named Permaculture that I got engaged and passionately involved. I took my Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) course with Bill Mollison in 1983 and it made perfect sense to me. So Permaculture Design is what inspired me. The way it can be used on a small family farm really appealed and made sense. And for me, I wanted to return that enthusiasm to as many people as possible by creating education and demonstration sites that are diverse as examples like Zaytuna Farm and the Permaculture Research Institute, Australia. My main theme here was to set up multiple demonstration sites and Permaculture design is the way of achieving that.
Growing Organic Food , Feeding His Community: Eduardo Rivera ‘Sin Fronteras’ Farm
“I’m aware that I can’t change the world, and I can’t feed the world, but I can impact a certain amount of people around me, and basically that’s what I’m trying to do.”
Soul Fire Farm: Feeding the Soul, Growing Community
A farm in upstate New York is dedicated to addressing the painful history of farmwork to Black people in the US, while also growing fresh vegetables and community surrounding it. The Laura Flanders Show visited Soul Fire Farm this winter.
Ishmael author Daniel Quinn: Saving the World, Moving Beyond Civilization
Ishmael author Daniel Quinn: Saving the World, Moving Beyond Civilization