It’s customary when writing these sorts of gardening advice blogs to include your top favorite/most recommended things to grow, so here’s a dozen I’ve chosen after a bit of thought. Some are categories rather than specific things, and I’m definitely not above cheating at making my own list. My criteria…
The following is an excerpt from the in progress guide to raising food in a changing climate and uncertain future. Two of the techniques that most aid in maintaining rich soil in gardens are extremely simple and also probably the most important for microbial life: hugelkultur/core gardening, and deep mulching…
Leftists will often stress that the existence of hunger and starvation isn’t a simple matter of resources not being available, but rather of uneven and unjust distribution. More than enough food is grown for everyone in the world, and that’s typically only counting the output of mass, conventional agriculture. The…
Soil health is something that’s routinely overlooked as it relates to justice and liberation, but it’s historically been one of the major drivers behind the growth and decline of empires and one of the earliest resources on which to base oppressive power structures. Soil is more than dirt with certain…
When I write about food cultivation that I think will be useful and necessary in our collective future, you’re gonna notice that I don’t talk about “agriculture”, but rather use the terms horticulture and permaculture. I tend towards being particular in my choice of words, and since these terms have…
During the World Wars here in occupied North America, the government encouraged everyday citizens to grow large Victory Gardens to offset/facilitate rationing of food and other goods to funnel towards the war efforts. As leftists building a liberation movement while navigating a future sure to be made tumultuous by climate…
