Urban Agriculture and the radical imagination of the possible As I explored in an earlier blog post, the lawn remains …
Engaging Diverse Communities Through Community Gardening
You can read the entire paper I wrote for the Bring Food Home conference here. It will be the basis of …
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Community gardens and human diversity
Some important strategies for making community gardens accessible, welcoming, and empowering for everybody. My paper on this topic will be …
Lawns, class, and colonialism
Lawns – highly managed monocultures of turf grasses – seem to most people but the most ardent environmentalist to be …
Globalize struggle, globalize hope!
This is an incredibly important document just released by the international peasants’ rights organization La Via Campesina in which they …
The Black Panthers and Food Security
Fifty-one years ago today, the Black Panther Party was created in Oakland, California. A revolutionary black nationalist party, the Black …
International Permaculture Convergence India
I am very excited to be part of the upcoming International Permaculture Convergence and Conference (IPC) in Hyderabad, India which …
Spring Gardening with Bees
Ahhh, spring: the leaves on trees are opening, spring flowers are blooming, birds are busy making their nests, and bees …
Why I support rapid transit
The debate over the proposed Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) has been raging in London, Ontario for weeks, recently including a …