Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto Before we start, I want to make one thing clear: this is not a post recommending that you should become vegan. I have no problem with people being vegan if that’s how they want to eat and they canContinue reading “On food”
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On being overwhelmed
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery. Wilkins Micawber in Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist This is where we are: we have a wide range of urgent problems which all need to be solved, and the resources toContinue reading “On being overwhelmed”
Book review: A Small Farm Future
A Small Farm Future: Making the Case for a Society Built Around Local Economies, Self-Provisioning, Agricultural Diversity and a Shared Earth by Chris Smaje, Chelsea Green Publishing (2020), ISBN: 9781603589024 The virtual ink was scarcely dry on my forthcoming post on food when this book came into my hands. I should confess that this isContinue reading “Book review: A Small Farm Future”
The sound of falling leaves 