Garden As If Your Life Depended On It, Because It Does
There are at least five reasons why more of us should take up the spade, make some compost, and start gardening with a vengeance. Garden…
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Yes, You Can Be Off-the-Grid in Suburbia (VIDEO)
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A self-sufficient system of farming is increasing yields across Hawaii
Image: Jamm Aquino/Star Advertiser Susan Essoyan Star Advertiser Farmer Samson Delos Reyes reached into his bluejeans pocket to grab a phone call from a buyer…
5 Simple Ways To Prepare For The Coming Food Crisis
Dees Illustration Activist Post Recently there has been an incredible flurry of news reporting about food shortages and the pending global food crisis. Everyone who…
16 reasons to live simply by starting a vegetable garden
White Pines Whisper Gardening is an integral part of simple living and a growing number of Americans are getting down in the dirt. According to…
Radical Homemade Prosperity
Caught in the consumer trap? Radical Homemaker Shannon Hayes discovered that producing what she needs at home lets her live on a fraction of what…
How Permaculture Can Save Humanity and the Earth, but Not Civilization (VIDEO)
Toby Hemenway Food Freedom Author of Gaia’s Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture (2d Ed.) The revised and updated edition also features a new chapter…
UK Ministers plan huge sell off of Britain’s forest to cut the deficit
Editor’s Note: Economic hitmen move in for their pound of flesh in Britain. Surely the government will underestimate the value of their forest resources so…
Food in Uncertain Times: How to Grow and Store the 5 Crops You Need to Survive
Having food resiliency is as much about learning how to store and use food properly as it is about growing it. The key is learning…
The Government Has a Seed Bank Savings Account — Why Shouldn’t You?
Michael Edwards and Jeffrey Green Activist Post Government Seed Bank On the CSU Campus, there is a storage facility for seeds that is described as…
Ten Reasons to Become Self-Sufficient and Ten Ways to Get There
Michael Edwards and Jeffrey Green Activist Post We are now three to five generations removed from the rural backbone that strengthened America. The world at…
Abundance and Scarcity: Two Opposing Forces Driving the Way We Live and Farm
New American Farming When it comes to farming, there are one of two thought processes, or belief systems, governing the mode of operation for each…
Mimicking Nature to Feed the Masses
Jeffrey Green Activist Post To me, there is no job more important than producing healthy food in a sustainable way. Admittedly I’m a newbie to…
Popularity of Farming Soars in Massachusetts
D.C. Denison Boston Globe DRACUT — Midway through her first growing season, Rachael Potts, 31, pointed to long rows of thriving peppers, scallions, and Swiss…