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Farming Like a Savannah
Mark Shepard is an iconoclastic farmer and author of a number of books on regenerative agriculture. He runs New Forest Farm, a 106-acre “perennial agricultural savannah.” The farm is a planned...
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Farming with the Wild: An Interview with Jo Ann Baumgartner of the Wild Farm...
In the 1980s Jo Ann Baumgartner worked on a research project growing vegetables with reclaimed waste water that became the forerunner for the use of treated recycled water to irrigate farms in the...
View ArticleFor the Love of Grace
Grace Wicks grew up in an environment where locally grown, organic, fair trade food and respectful rural-urban relationships were the ingredients for success for one of the first farm-to-table...
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Concerns and Hope for Youth: A Conversation with Young Activists
ARTY MANGAN: As an elder who has had the privilege of being involved in organizing Bioneers’ Youth Education and Leadership Program for over 16 years, I am increasingly impressed by the resilience and...
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Changing the Way We Eat: Alice Waters’ Delicious Revolution
This is an edited version of the transcript of a conversation with and interview of the world-renowned visionary chef, restaurateur, author, educator and activist, Alice Waters, conducted by Nikki...
View ArticleSeasonality: Eating and Living in Rhythm with the Changing Seasons
Alice Waters started a culinary revolution based on local, organic food in season when she open the renown Chez Panisse restaurant in 1971. Her belief that “food is not just something to eat, but a...
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Your Right to Know: An Interview with Megan Westgate of the Non-GMO Project
A national thought leader on GMO issues and longtime healthy and sustainable food activist/advocate, Megan Westgate helped launch the Non-GMO Project in 2006. She lives with her family on an organic...
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Farming as Medicine: An Interview with Rupa Marya, MD
Photo by Ben Fahrer Dr. Rupa Marya, a physician, activist, writer, mother, musician and composer, is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco and a co-founder...
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The Fascinating World of “Classical” Organic Seed Breeding
In the 1980s Frank Morton began as a farmer of mixed salad greens with a budding interest in saving seeds when he discovered one red lettuce among many flats of seedlings of green leaf lettuce. This...
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Seed Libraries: Keeping Seeds in the Hands of the People
Rebecca Newburn is a permaculturalist and math and science educator who, in 2010, began the Richmond Grows Seed Lending Library in Richmond, California, one of the first in the country. Seed libraries...
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A Peach Farmer’s Quest for Significance and Survival: An Interview with Mas...
Mas Masumoto is an organic farmer and author of 14 books including Epitaph for a Peach, the story of how an old heirloom peach had fallen out of favor in the marketplace and forced Mas to make some...
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The Fair Food Program: Fighting For Farmworkers’ Rights
“The Harvesters” image – courtesy of artist Erin Currier (@erincurrierfineart www.erincurrierfineart.com) – depicts three Coalition of Immokalee Workers leaders: Gerardo Reyes Chavez, Nely Rodriguez,...
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The Farmlink Project: Reducing Hunger by Reducing Food Waste
When the Covid pandemic hit and disrupted so many of our social and economic systems, a crisis within the crisis exploded: the number of people who were facing hunger grew catastrophically. News...
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Urban Farming, Community Care and Self-Love
ab banks, an urban farmer whose work is grounded in agroecology, wellness and Black food autonomy, is the Garden Lead for People’s Programs at the Oxford Tract at UC Berkley, which grows food and...
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Alaskan Native Looks to Tradition to Deal with Contemporary Problems
Alaskan Native Looks to Tradition to Deal with Contemporary Problems Deenaalee Hodgdon (who uses the pronouns they/them) is a Native Alaskan and the Executive Director of On The Land, an Indigenous...
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The Sacred Plant Biocultural Recovery Initiative: An Interview with Gary Paul...
Gary Paul Nabhan is a renowned ethnobotanist and author focused on the confluence of cultural and biological diversity. His innovative writings and projects have raised awareness of the economic and...
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Biochar: An Ancient Method of Healing Modern Soils
Amazonia is the largest river basin in the world, covering an area greater than Europe. More than 3 million species live in the Amazon rainforest, making it one of the most diverse ecosystems and...
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A Young Artist-Activist Works for Equity in the Food System
Minkah Taharkah is an artist, poet, farmer, and organizer. While a student at UC Berkeley, she co-founded Black Earth Farms based on her desire to eat healthy and affordable food and to provide the...
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The Dark Secret of Student Hunger: An Interview of Tim Galarneau of the...
For students from low income or marginalized communities entering college (often the first in their family to do so) can be a source of pride and expanded opportunity, but for those who don’t have the...
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Tackling Student Hunger: An Interview with Francis Ge of the Basic Needs...
Alarming numbers of college students, even at some of the most prestigious universities across the country, struggle financially, affecting their access to housing and food. Those personal crises make...
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