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Legumes in the Kitchen: They Are Not Just For Nitrogen-Fixing
LEGUMES IN THE KITCHEN: THEY ARE NOT JUST FOR NITROGEN-FIXING When it comes to legumes, I come from a fortunate background. Born and raised in the southern Louisiana, where cuisine is something entirely different than the rest of the United States, food has long been a product of love and cherish. It deserves devotion. It […]
Backyard Carbon Sequestration: What Does Synthetic Fertilizer Have to Do with It?
Backyard Carbon Sequestration: What Does Synthetic Fertilizer Have to Do with It? Part two of a series exploring how regenerative gardening techniques can enhance carbon storage while improving soil health. In part one I discussed some of the principles behind the factors involved in soil health and how plants and the soil biological community work […]
Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Community, Health and Enterprise
Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Community, Health and Enterprise What are you doing every day to build community, health and productive enterprises? Every month I have wide-ranging conversations with three long-time collaborators: Gordon T. Long of Macro Analytics, Chris Martenson of Peak Prosperity, and Drew Sample of The Sample Hour. I do dozens of interviews in the course […]
Self-Reliance: Control What You Can (Food/Fitness)
Self-Reliance: Control What You Can (Food/Fitness) Self-reliance boils down to taking control of what we can control and depending as little as possible on what we can’t control. Self-reliance is a grand-sounding phrase, but what does it mean in real life?Does it mean total self-sufficiency? To my way of thinking, even the most self-sufficient still […]
Foodroom Gardening: No Rows, No Woes
Foodroom Gardening: No Rows, No Woes As I battle mud and mosquitoes in this wet year, in the wallow that used to be our garden, I think faraway, crazy thoughts. I keep trying to imagine a future time when all human beings would be responsible for their basic food necessities just as they are responsible for […]
How to Grow a Survival Garden (and what to do if it dies)
How to Grow a Survival Garden (and what to do if it dies) I love growing my own vegetables. I spend many fulfilling hours outside every summer, tending to my plants, nurturing my soil, and babying things along, with the birds for music and a basket full of delicious organic food to show for it each […]
An ecological look at vegetable gardening systems
An ecological look at vegetable gardening systems I’ve examined some different systems of growing vegetables in earlier posts, viewing them primarily from the standpoints of yield (pounds produced per unit area) and inputs required. Now I want to view them from another perspective: that of ecology. What does the science of ecology suggest about how […]
The Gardens of Plenty
The Gardens of Plenty Editor’s Note: In France, Gardens of Plenty help provide not just vegetables but training and job skills. Yardfarms can be developed not just in backyards but in community spaces around towns and cities, helping to train others to not just make a living but to make their communities more sustainable, more food […]
Human manure: Closing the nutrient loop
Human manure: Closing the nutrient loop Using human urine and faeces as fertiliser may seem an unappetising concept but it’s been common practice for centuries. In the sewage systems of today, which deal with millions of tonnes of domestic waste and industrial effluent, this human fertiliser comes in the form of treatedsewage sludge. Promoting a […]
Bloom Where You’re Planted: Prepping to Survive Where You Are Right Now
Bloom Where You’re Planted: Prepping to Survive Where You Are Right Now Have you ever heard anyone utter some variation of one of these comments? “I’m going to start prepping as soon as I can move.” “I can’t prepare because I live in a tiny apartment.” “Well, once we are able to get moved to […]
The Real Need for GMO and Industrial-Scale Food
The Real Need for GMO and Industrial-Scale Food I’d like to start off with a story about a woman I know who works full time, takes home a below-median income, and raises two kids in Silicon Valley. This woman also has an organic garden in her tiny back yard, partially for her own enjoyment, and […]
Joel Salatin: How food can restore America’s integrity
Joel Salatin: How food can restore America’s integrity While I was in Australia in February, imported Chinese raspberries carrying Hepatitis A (from human sewage) hospitalized a dozen people and heightened interest in my seminars to a fever pitch. The news media and individuals fell over themselves trying to learn about local food systems and integrity […]
Tossing and Turning: Our Disturbed Soils and Troubled Sleep
Tossing and Turning: Our Disturbed Soils and Troubled Sleep I’m sitting under a halogen light right now and staying up late to write about soil. That probably doesn’t sound ironic to you. I think it should. How I came to reflect on soil and sleep as functionally related and analogous in their processes is something […]
Food Not Lawns!
Food Not Lawns! The mission of Food Not Lawns is just what you’d think from its title—grow gardens instead of a useless beds of monocropped grass. The organization is actually about much more than that though. Perhaps most importantly, it’s about having communities come together with a common purpose to transform wasted lawn space into a productive food […]
