While preparing my talk for the IPC India Convergence, I came across some bee videos I took on my phone …
Off to India!
The blog will be quiet for a couple weeks as I am off to the International Permaculture Convergence in Hyderabad, …
Why vegans should support backyard hens
First: a disclaimer: I would love to have hens in my backyard (currently prohibited in my city) but if I …
Urban Agriculture and the radical imagination of the possible
Urban Agriculture and the radical imagination of the possible As I explored in an earlier blog post, the lawn remains …
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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 …