Web Features
Red Earth Farms cofounder Alyson Ewald loves it that her rural community wildcrafts, grows, processes, ferments, pickles, and celebrates food.
In the mountains of New Mexico, Lama Foundation is making new food decisions to unhook from the fossil fuel-based agricultural systems.
Also in This Issue (Print Version Only)
· PUBLISHER'S NOTE: LOOKING UP: Hopeful Signs from our Annual Bean Counting
· ECOVILLAGE LIVING: VARESE LIGURE: From Traditional Italian Village to "Eco-community"
Giovanna Dunmall
· FEDERATION UPDATE: TWIN OAKS' LABOR CREDIT SYSTEM
· SEEKING COMMUNITY: ON THE ROAD WITH ZEPHYR, PART ONE
Zephyr Twombly
Community seeker Zephyr Zwombly meets communitarians, leans how each community functions, jumps in and works wherever he visits...and shares his observations. Part One chronicles his visits to Camphill Kimberton Hills, Heathcote, and Innisfree Village.
· FOUNDING COMMUNITY: "THE VILLAGE" IN TIPPERARY: Ireland's First Large-Scale Ecovillage
Johnny Connolly
Johnny Connolly and over a hundred members of Sustainable Projects Ireland have been manifesting their community dream for eight years now, breaking ground on their property in April, 2007.
· A NEW ROOT CELLAR, BULK BUYING, AND TWO CSAS
Marty Hiller
Members of EcoVillage at Ithaca are creating new systems for better food security and energy self-reliance.
· EATING LOCAL
Sara McCamant
People in Sara McCamant's northern California county have "relocalized"--they've created a regional foodshed group, support local farmers, and encourage one another to eat only food grown or raised within 100 miles of their area.
· FOOD, GLORIOUS FOOD!
Stan Hildebrand
At Sandhill Farm, reports longtime community member Stan Hildebrand, life is organized around growing, processing, and enjoying delicious, organic food.
· GARDENING IN THE ALENTEJO
Leila Dregger explores how Tamera, an ecovillage in the Alentejo region of Portugal, grows vegetables and fruit in various ways in several gardens and utilizes a hillside root cellar to grow and store produce and bulk staples. Could Tamera be food self-reliant if it had to?
· COMMUNITY WHERE YOU ARE: STOCKING OUR COMMUNITY PANTRY
Mitchell Johnson
Mitchell Johnson and other activists glean, grow at home, and otherwise obtain free food in Seattle. Is this the "urban harvest" of the future?
· MY TURN: WHAT I'M LEARNING FROM COMMUNITY
Alan Pakaln
· REVIEWS: Finding Community; Little House on a Small Planet
