Land | Food | Nature | People
I submitted my dissertation a day early. No late nights before the deadline, no last-minute rush, no panic. I used to pride myself on quoting Douglas Adams, with his deadlines making a whooshing sound as they fly by, but in the end I was relaxed and ahead of time. So uncool. My past self doesn’t …
The great press baron, Lord Northcliffe, used to tell his journalists that four subjects could be relied upon for abiding public interest: crime, love, money, and food. Only the last of these is fundamental and universal. Crime is a minority interest, even in the worst-regulated societies. It is possible to imagine an economy without money …
Thoughts on farming, food systems and rhetorical ecology prompted by a documentary film trailer I didn’t much like. #FoodStudies #agriculture #ecology #agroecology #systems
Thoughts on changing approach, calcified systems and why we need a food system like a forest garden, not a plantation
There’s a disturbing trend towards thinking of systemic collapse as being the inevitable and even necessary precursor to a more ideal future. It’s all coming down. Empires must fall. Only that way can we usher in better things. We must make good ruins, as Dougald Hine put it. Chris Smaje imagines cities emptying out in …
Some UK social media users have been pouring milk down their sinks and toilets in protest at the trial of a new feed additive that claims to significantly reduce the emission of methane gas in dairy cows, reports BBC News. Since Arla announced that it was trialling Bovaer on 30 dairy farms, “social media users” …
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