Food Sovereignty

Clean water is the resource beneath all other resources. You can grow food without electricity, preserve food without a freezer, cook without a recipe

Between the garden you tend and the global supply chain you depend on, there exists a local food economy that most people never learn to navigate. Far

The tomato on your plate in February traveled roughly 1,500 miles to reach you. It was picked green in a field in Mexico or Florida, gassed with ethyl

There is a moment in every gardener's second or third year when the logic clicks. You grew tomatoes from seeds you purchased. The tomatoes produced se

There is a moment, usually around the third month of keeping chickens, when you realize that the eggs are not the point. The eggs are a tangible retur

There is a meaningful gap between growing a single tomato plant and growing enough food to notice on your grocery bill. Most gardening advice lives at

In the bean-field chapter of *Walden*, Thoreau writes about planting, hoeing, and harvesting two and a half acres of beans with a specificity that bor

Food sovereignty is not a project you complete. There is no finish line where you have achieved sufficient independence from the food system and can s

The garden produces in surges. A July tomato plant does not deliver one tomato per day for six months; it delivers fifty tomatoes in three weeks and t

The most accessible act of food sovereignty is not growing a garden or raising chickens or preserving a season's worth of tomatoes. It is cooking your