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Two hundred miles from Hartlepool
Two hundred miles from Hartlepool I’m going to interrupt my present blog cycle about my book A Small Farm Future for one post to comment on recent political events in Britain. Where this post ends up in fact is pretty relevant to some of the larger arguments of my book. The events I’m referring to are last […]
The single biggest way to reduce your impact on planet Earth…
The single biggest way to reduce your impact on planet Earth… …is a vegan diet. Well, at least it is according to Joseph Poore. But I have an alternative suggestion. The single biggest way to reduce your impact on planet Earth is to stop thinking there’s a single biggest way to reduce your impact on planet […]
Can organic farming feed the world?
Can organic farming feed the world? I discuss various aspects of so-called ‘alternative’ agriculture at some length in Chapter 6 of A Small Farm Future1, and I don’t intend to retrace many of those steps here. But there’s a couple of further things I do want to say in this blog cycle. Here, I’ll focus on […]
Home is not the house but where the garden is
Home is not the house but where the garden is My title is a quotation from archaeologist Francis Pryor’s book about ‘prehistoric’ Britain, but it serves well enough as a summary of the general argument in my own book about our likely global future, and the need to refocus the household from a place of […]
The awkward class
The awkward class Time to talk about peasants, who I claim in Chapter 3 of my book A Small Farm Future will soon be returning to tend (or create) a small farm near you. Or may in fact include you or your descendants. This claim is at odds with most of what’s been written about rural trends […]
Turning the clock forward
Turning the clock forward The next stop in my tour through my book A Small Farm Future is Part I, which begins with a long chapter outlining ten crises that one way or another seem set in the coming years to thoroughly upend the world we’ve known. As I see it, these crises are such that for good […]
Both hands now – an introduction to ‘A Small Farm Future’
Both hands now – an introduction to ‘A Small Farm Future’ Today I’m going to begin my cycle of posts commenting on, expanding and perhaps occasionally qualifying the analyses in my book A Small Farm Future. You have bought your copy by now, right? Ah well … far be it from me to tell you what to do […]
A Small Farm Future: Review
A Small Farm Future: Review Chris Smaje has been a lecturer in sociology and is now a small farmer and writer, living in England. This book springs from his blog of the same name, and as posts from that blog have run on Resilience, many readers will already be familiar with Smaje and the kind […]
The US election: perspectives from an ear of grain
The US election: perspectives from an ear of grain With an important election looming in the USA, let’s talk for a change about politics. But since this is primarily a farming blog, I thought I’d approach it obliquely from the agricultural angle of cereal breeding. It’s obvious when you think about it… Actually, before we […]
A Small Farm Future: Excerpt
A Small Farm Future: Excerpt Culture Crisis This is the crisis of modernist culture – the ability to create ourselves as individuals and protect ourselves from the vicissitudes of the non-symbolic world, set against the ability to alienate ourselves as individuals and offload the consequences of our self-creation onto other people (including future people) and […]
On the efficiency of my scythe
On the efficiency of my scythe The time is nearly upon us when the feature-length version of my musings here will be released upon an unsuspecting world – A Small Farm Future (the book) will be available from 15 October in the UK and 21 October in the US. Various launch events are in the offing, and […]
Beyond authenticity: the politics of agrarian localism, Part 1
Beyond authenticity: the politics of agrarian localism, Part 1 In this post and the next one I continue exploring the issue of protest, violence, class and the Extinction Rebellion (XR) movement I raised in the last one. I engage with some of the responses to the previous post, including one from Peter Gelderloos on Twitter, but rather […]
Protest, violence, class
Protest, violence, class Another month, another Extinction Rebellion protest, another crop of articles excoriating XR for being too disruptive and anti-capitalist, or not disruptive and anti-capitalist enough, or for not laying the blame on China, or whatever. I don’t particularly feel the need to appoint myself to the defence, but I was interested in this ROAR […]
An alternative agriculturist’s guide to science
An alternative agriculturist’s guide to science To begin, just a heads up on a couple of new things on the site. First, I’ve posted on the My Book page advanced comments about my forthcoming book that have come in from a number of interesting thinkers. It’s nice to get such positive notices. Currently, I’m pretty busy gearing […]
Business-as-usual porn – or, We need to talk about collapse
Business-as-usual porn – or, We need to talk about collapse I think we need to talk openly and calmly about the possibility of societal or civilizational collapse arising from humanity’s present predicaments. And that’s mostly what I want to pursue in this post – not so much what the likelihood or the underlying mechanisms of […]
