Groundswell and the rhetorical ecology of farming and food
Thoughts on farming, food systems and rhetorical ecology prompted by a documentary film trailer I didn’t much like. #FoodStudies #agriculture #ecology #agroecology #systems
agroecology
Square pegs, round holes and changing direction
Thoughts on changing approach, calcified systems and why we need a food system like a forest garden, not a plantation
All the small things
For want of a nail the shoe was lost;for want of a shoe the horse was lost;and for want of a horse the rider was lost,being overtaken and slain by the enemy,all for want of care about a horse-shoe nail. Traditional proverb Can you get repetitive strain injury from non-stop facepalming, or brain damage from …
Throwing away perfectly good milk
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” …
Week-ish notes 24/10/24
I’ve been thinking about study, particularly as I approach the halfway-through-term reading week next week. Where my global systems thinking module on Mondays takes the form of a lecture with occasional group discussions, my Friday food systems module is a seminar. The approach is different for the two. At the Monday lecture, I take a …
Gaia
This week was lectured by Prof. Tim Lenton, and this module keeps setting off lightbulb moments for me. How did life on earth get to be self-regulating? What is life, and what is its effect on the planet? James Lovelock had started looking at the composition of atmospheres of different planets while working at NASA. …