Food Sovereignty

why you, your family, friends and neighbors should grow food together… If you and your family struggle to afford good food, have to travel far out of your way to get groceries and get fried by heatwaves in the summer then I want to encourage you to start growing food and indigenous plants wherever you live. Whether you live in a…

Maya Minder is an ‘Eatartist’ working at the intersection of culinary production and critical thinking about global practices and entanglement of different food cultures. …

Dreaming of homesteading, but stuck in a city apartment? Think you need land in order to grow food and build self-reliance? That’s what I used to think too! But holding on to my homesteading dream through nearly a decade of living just outside the Seattle downtown core, in a tiny…

In late May, I traveled north to represent Crosshatch at the Indigenous Food Sovereignty Symposium and Festival, held in Marquette, Michigan. Here’s the anatomy: Indigenous — referring to the original inhabitants of this land. Largely Anishinabeg, but representatives from all over the country were present. …

Written by Anise Kaz & Aroe Ajoeni What is food security? Firstly, what is food security? As defined by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO): “Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs…

Author’s note: this essay is also published on the Arrell Food Institute website, along with a response from Dr. Evan Fraser. The science is clear. To address climate change, reverse global biodiversity collapse, and ensure people around the world have access to nutritious and culturally preferred foods, we need to…

For a good chunk of my life, I believed that everything was pointless. That we humans were nothing more than a cancer on the earth, that there’s nothing we can do to stop it all going to shit, and that it probably would be better if we just went extinct…

What does the Scorpio — Taurus axis offer us? How does it structure opportunities for individuals and community members? On astrology in general: I now refer to it as a relationship science and the most potent way to participate is to make meaning for yourself, through direct experience and continued…