The Lunatic Farmer

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

He adopted my pastured poultry ideas in his citrus grove years ago and it set in motion a cascade of benefits. This is such a basic symbiotic relationship, but it is not even part of the conversation in industrial agricultural orthodoxy. It’s no idle threat. I received a wonderful letter from a citrus grower in Belize.

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Poultry Livestock Pasture Ecology 64

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Lynn Fantom From the Ground Up: The Women Revolutionizing Regenerative Agriculture By Stephanie Anderson The “bigger and cheaper” mentality of industrial agriculture incurs great environmental and social costs. In the end, From the Ground Up paints a hopeful picture of how agricultural practices could evolve for the better.

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Food Farming Farming Agriculture 112

Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

—Matthew Wheeland Countering Dispossession, Reclaiming Land: A Social Movement Ethnography By David Gilbert Along the slopes of a volcano in Indonesia, a group of Minangkabau Indigenous agricultural workers began quietly reclaiming their land in 1993, growing cinnamon trees, chilies, eggplants, and other foods on the edges of plantations.

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Food Farming Farming Forage 126