I’ll be honest – I was getting rather bored with writing this series on food production. I know it’s tremendously … Read More
Agroecology – Alleluia!
Author: Roz Savage
The Ground Beneath Our Feet
I’m back at my desk, and back to writing about food production and its environmental consequences. I’ve already touched on … Read More
The Hero Path
Today’s blog post is courtesy of Joseph Campbell, author of The Hero with a Thousand Faces and many other books, … Read More
On hiatus
I’m travelling for the next couple of weeks, so am taking a break from blogging. I’ll be back, refreshed and … Read More
Farming and Fertilisers
“The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer … Read More
Pesticides: Can We Live Without?
In 1962 Rachel Carson published her seminal work, Silent Spring, warning that excessive use of synthetic pesticides, especially DDT, was … Read More
Molecules of Freedom?
I will get back to my series on food production, I promise, but today I was sidetracked/gobsmacked by something I’ve … Read More
Hi from Skye
A very short blog post this week, as we’re staying with our dear friend Dr Iain McGilchrist at his lovely … Read More
Monoculture: Economically Efficient, Ecologically Disastrous
Economically, reducing the number of types of crops that a farmer grows makes perfect sense. Just as production lines increase … Read More