I have been absent from this space for some time now due to multiple changes that were happening in my life. While I am still not quite ready to return with any regularity, seeing as we’re nearing the end of Black History Month and I haven’t posted anything, I feel…
Webinar Overview This is Part 1 of my main take-aways from listening to the Food Secure Canada webinar on Agroecology: Integrating Science, Practice, and Social Justice. If you missed it- you can still watch the recording online and see the pdf of slides here. One point made during the webinar is…
Starting Anew: Natural Rhythms and Cycles A Villard Blanc wakens from winter slumber and stretches towards sunlight as it prepares its growing strategy for spring, looking for what it can grasp and curl around to support its growth.© 2018 C.Bukowski Breaking Dormancy I know it has been a while since…
Today I am thinking about what role community food forests will play in the future of our food system. I think our food system is often described as what is really a supply chain of planting and growing a crop through all the linear stages of consuming to disposing…
This Thing Called Permaculture Permaculture was a term first coined in the 1970’s by Bill Mollison and David Holmgren to describe techniques they believed supported a more permanent form of agriculture. There is plenty of information available on the web that can provide more information on the history of permaculture…
This weekend I will be presenting community food forest research through a poster at Harvard’s Just Food? Conference. – http://foodbetter.squarespace.com/food-justice-conference/
Just Food? A conference exploring the intersections between social, economic, and environmental justice and the food system. Check out the video below I made in light of this conference. The first video is in English and the second is Spanish.
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What is it? A simplistic definition of agroforestry is a sustainable land management system that offers production practices that intentionally integrate trees, crops, and/or livestock. Agroforestry became formerly recognized as a science in the 1970s, but the practices are rooted in traditional farming practices and indigenous knowledge from around the…
What is it? A scientific field focused on practices that are sustainable alternatives to mainstream industrial agriculture. Rather than solely focusing on production efficiency and financial profit it is a more holistic approach that takes into consideration social and cultural factors as well as an ecosystem approach to agricultural and…