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Shipping Container Homes. Shared Earth the Largest Community Garden on the Planet! | SharedEarth. Hyperlocavore. “Food Sovereignty” law passed in small Maine town to allow sale of locally produced food without interference of regulators. Town Hall in Sedgwick Maine Update March, 2013: Brooksville Becomes Ninth Maine Town to Pass Food Sovereignty Law Here’s a Way to Eliminate the Regulators and Lawyers, and Build Community At the Same Time: Organize and Declare “Food Sovereignty,” Like Sedgwick, Maine by David E. Gumpert The Complete Patient Maybe the citizens of tiny Sedgwick on the Maine coast were listening to the calls of Dave Milano, Ken Conrad, and others for more trust and community, and less rigid one-size-fits-all food regulation.

On Friday evening, they became perhaps the first locale in the country to pass a “Food Sovereignty” law. The proposed ordinance was one of 78 being considered at the Sedgwick town meeting, that New England institution that has stood the test of time, allowing all of a town’s citizens to vote yea or nay on proposals to spend their tax money and, in this case, enact potentially far-reaching laws with national implications. This isn’t just a declaration of preference.

See also: More Info. Neighborhood Cows and Pigs: Real Food Sovereignty. “You don’t actually drink the milk do you?” When acquaintances learn we have dairy cows on our small farm, many ask us that very question with incredulous expressions. We’ve also been asked, too many times to count, if we really eat the eggs from our hens.

“Don’t they, like, come out of a chicken’s butt?” A colleague asked my husband. She was accustomed to eggs laid at distant factory farms, comfortably far from her awareness. Separation from the source of our sustenance may be unique to our era.. The oldest folks I know tell me about raising goats and chickens on city lots, growing grapes behind apartment buildings to make wine, gardening anywhere they found land. They’re talking about food sovereignty. It was only a few generations ago that advertisers managed to convince consumers that growing, preserving, and preparing meals should be left to experts.

But we’re eager to find solutions. We’re reconnecting through our food in bold (and tasty) ways. How about pigs? How about goats? 7 Mega-Cartels That Kill the Free Market and Our Sovereignty. Activist Post Think we have a free market? Think again. Think it was free market capitalism that collapsed the financial system? Think again. What America has, and what we've had for a long time, is Cartelism. It's only natural that a hierarchical system would result in exponential attraction of power to the few at the top. Each major industry in America, and globally, is predominantly run by a handful of companies who are aided by the corporate-government revolving door. Here are descriptions of 7 mega-cartels that killed the free market and effectively run America's oligarchy beginning at the top of the pyramid and cascading down: Banking: The Federal Reserve and their consortium of the "Too-Big-to-Fail" mega-banks make up the Wall Street cartel at the apex of all other pyramids.

All of these institutions were originally founded by European bankers yet their connections now expand to nearly every central bank and the IMF and World Bank. Military: The business of war is booming. Shaping Traditional Oral knowledge: about project. "Observing the food and therefore changing the notion of food preservation, we could find the answer to current situations such as the overuse of energy and food wastage. My design is a tool to implement that knowledge in a tangible way and slowly it changes the bigger picture of society. I believe that once people are given a tool that triggers their minds and requires a mental effort to use it, new traditions and new rituals can be introduced into our culture. " This project is about traditional oral knowledge which has been accumulated from experience and transmitted by mouth to mouth. Particularly focusing on the food preservation, it looks at a feasible way of bringing that knowledge into everyday life.

Through the research into the current situation of food preservation, I’ve learned that we hand over the responsibility of taking care of food to the technology, the refrigerator. Jihyun ryou 2009, shaping traditional oral knowledge-save food from the fridge. 'The Urban Food Revolution' Goes High Rise. Solviva Salad? Five-storey vertical farms? A taste of Peter Ladner's new book on growing food in cities. Asked to create a concept for vertical farming in New York City, the architecture firm WorkAC designed this. The Urban Food Revolution: Changing the Way We Feed Cities Peter Ladner New Society Publishers (2011) [Editor's note: The following chapter, "In Praise of Technology," is excerpted with permission from Peter Ladner's The Urban Food Revolution: Changing the Way We Feed Cities.

The book is an essential resource for anyone who has lost confidence in the global industrial food system and wants practical advice on how to join the local food revolution.] A week after the wettest September on record, farmer Bill Zylmans called into a local radio show from his tractor on his farm in Richmond, B.C. "I'm sitting here on the tractor, looking out over the fields.

"It's not just potatoes. "Farmers have been trying. "On this farm alone, our loss is hundreds of thousands of dollars. TED - The Subversive Plot. Re:farm the city. I will share here a low cost solution for the recycling of organic waste, appropriate for apartments and urban housing that do not have a piece of land or an outdoor area. This construction is inspired by the Cadico earthworms nice project.

The photos are from the composter I made here at home : ) It’s called a Vermi composter because we use worms in the process, uhuuuuu big thanks to the worms, they deserve! To make this kind of composter, it is important to use stackable supports to separate the different stages of composting. In this case, I used 3 buckets of margarine 15L reused. The first step is to cut the center of the lids that stands between the buckets. Then we will make holes into the bottom of the 2 buckets that will stay on top and receive the organic waste. Then, we use thinner drills, size 1, or 1.5 mm for making holes in the top of these 2 buckets to allow the entry of air, very important component of a good composting.

Place a first layer of compound or forest land. . . Grown in the City. Root Cellars. There are various types of Root Cellars including ones connected and those separate from your home. Some made from earth and others made from old freezers, culverts, cement or simple garbage cans. Whatever your choice they are excellent for year around food storage. Remember safety though and make sure your root cellar is well ventilated if its large enough to walk into. A Plan for All Seasons Why winter was NOT just a cold gruel world for 1830's New Englanders By Mark Ashton From Old Sturbridge Visitor, Winter 1997. A Root Cellar for Your Homestead-The low-tech root cellar, will keep your harvest fresh for two months or longer, depending on what you store, without ozone-depleting refrigeration, or electricity.

BBC-Short article on Root Cellars-Dig a hole and voila, a root cellar. Building an outside root cellar-Werner Gysi wrote this nice little article on building and designing a root cellar. Country Life-Mrs. Ehow-How to make a root cellar from your deep freezer or old fridge. 15 houseplants to improve indoor air quality | MNN - Mother Nature Network - StumbleUpon. Who Are The Young Farmers Of 'Generation Organic'? : The Salt. Hide caption Maryland farmer Josie Johnson learns about extending the farming season by growing crops under caterpillar tunnels. The lecture was part of a conference for young farmers held in Tarrytown N.Y., in early December. All photos by Maggie Starbard/NPR Hide caption Young farmers get their hands dirty picking parsnips while singing worksongs during a workshop at the 2011 Young Farmers Conference.

Hide caption Jack Algiere demonstrates how to harvest parsnips. He's the farm manager at Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture, which hosted the conference. Hide caption From left: Mitra Sticklen, Rachel Fleury and Nate Kraus-Malett learn traditional farming work songs. Hide caption Shannon Raider prepares a lecture on the growth of the young farmers' movement. She is director of programs at Common Ground High School, a charter school in New Haven, Conn., that focuses on environmental issues. Some of these young farmers already have their own farms. Maggie Starbard/NPR. Urban Permaculture Institute. The Homesteaders Free Library - StumbleUpon. Whole Earth Catalog Stay Hungry Stay Foolish. To Build Community, an Economy of Gifts by Charles Eisenstein. For a multitude of reasons, we need to need each other. posted Dec 27, 2011 Wherever I go and ask people what is missing from their lives, the most common answer (if they are not impoverished or seriously ill) is "community.

" What happened to community, and why don't we have it any more? There are many reasons—the layout of suburbia, the disappearance of public space, the automobile and the television, the high mobility of people and jobs—and, if you trace the "whys" a few levels down, they all implicate the money system. More directly posed: community is nearly impossible in a highly monetized society like our own. That is because community is woven from gifts, which is ultimately why poor people often have stronger communities than rich people.

In former times, people depended for all of life's necessities and pleasures on people they knew personally. That is one reason for the universally recognized superficiality of most social gatherings. Community is woven from gifts. Interested? Rocket stove mass heater.