Believe it or not, an insightful way to really “get” the value of ultra-local is to examine its extreme opposite: ultra-processed. Which these days is very on-point, because rising concerns about UPFs (ultra-processed foods) may well be moving us toward...
So far you’ve seen an introduction to the self-sufficiency garden system, how it relates to a broad description of farms and gardens, and what food self-sufficiency can mean. Next up: exploring why gardens are inherently far more efficient than farms, especially the...
Once in a while I’ll insert a mini-post having something to do with gardening, just as a break from the longer posts. So here is the first such.One day while walking through the rows of my garden corn plants, I came upon this little scene. A feather had blown in and...
I noted in my introductory post that food self-sufficiency means different things to different people. Here, I’ll describe what it means to me, based on my research over the last several years, and how I arrived at that version. Along the way, I’ll weave in various...
Nowadays, there’s really only one way to feed millions of people, right?Wrong. There are two ways: with farms, and with gardens. Yet we think that only the former can actually deliver massive amounts of food to millions. Simply because that’s what we’ve been taught to...
