Makenna Goodman, Chelsea Green Publishing. November 6, 2009. Bees teach us how to live our life in a way that by taking what we need from the world around us, we leave the world better than we found it.
R.J. Ruppenthal, Chelsea Green Publishing. October 23, 2009. What if each of us could produce just 10 percent of our own food at home? What a huge difference that would make.
Richard Wiswall, Chelsea Green Publishing. October 22, 2009. Contrary to what most people believe, a good living can be made on an organic farm, and what's required is farming smarter, not harder.
Adam Federman, Earth Island Journal. September 15, 2009. Not only do bumblebees pollinate about 15 percent of our food crops (valued at $3 billion), they also occupy a critical role as native pollinators.
Michael Pollan, The Nation. September 10, 2009. Wendell Berry's now-famous formulation, "eating is an agricultural act" -- is perhaps his signal contribution to the rethinking of food and farming under way today.
Makenna Goodman, Chelsea Green Publishing. August 28, 2009. Were we traumatized? Did we feel sorry for the chicken? Are we dreading this weekend, where we'll have to kill 150 more? Here's why not.
Lester R. Brown, TreeHugger. August 28, 2009. How China ended its dependence on food aid, almost overnight, and become the world's third largest food aid donor.
Peter Gleick, Pacific Institute. August 27, 2009. Exaggerating the role that water plays in unemployment will do little to improve farm jobs and much to hurt rational water policy in the region.
Makenna Goodman, Chelsea Green Publishing. August 21, 2009. In this economic climate, why is farming becoming a desirable life for young people who have the luxury of choice?
Jill Richardson, Ig Publishing. August 18, 2009. Was Whole Foods truly sustainable, or was it just a high-priced version of the same food one could find in a conventional supermarket?
Ari LeVaux, AlterNet. July 22, 2009. Despite what the food pyramid says, we don't need milk after we're babies. Maybe it's time to wean ourselves from cows and grow up.
Beau Friedlander, Air America Media AlterNet: PEEK. June 26, 2009. While the bill is weak medicine for a very sick planet, it’s a whole lot better than taking the poor orb behind the Milky Way and shooting it.
Melinda Burns, Miller-McCune.com. June 20, 2009. As California and Australia are finding out, what makes economic sense to farmers may be becoming an environmental problem.
Robin Marantz Henig, OnEarth Magazine. June 19, 2009. Scientists are closing in on an inescapable conclusion: Pesticides may be a cause of Parkinson's disease.
Rebekah and Stephen Hren, Chelsea Green Publishing. June 11, 2009. By gradually relocalizing our food production we can return to an agricultural system that is much less energy intensive.
Lisa M. Hamilton, AlterNet. June 11, 2009. By consolidating, centralizing and homogenizing our food system, we've put all our proverbial eggs in one basket -- and that's a big risk.
Lisa M. Hamilton, Counterpoint Press. June 8, 2009. A 10th-generation rancher in New Mexico shows how to restore the environment, agriculture and ranching communities.
Scott Thill, AlterNet. June 6, 2009. Nearly a third of the country's food supply comes from California, but drought there may be a catastrophe for farmers -- and the rest of us.
Gene Logsdon, Chelsea Green Publishing. May 27, 2009. OK, you've mastered tomatoes and peppers -- but how about learning how to grow grains in your own yard?
