Fossil Fuel based growth has ended: This is the best place to learn about the future. In which localism prevails and power moves from the top-down to the grass-roots. Prosperity will decline and life will again be worth living.
In a world where the once-reliable rhythms of nature—spring rains, summer heat, autumn harvests—have been thrown into disarray, humanity will face an unprecedented challenge: learning to grow food without the guidance of seasons. The collapse of these natural cycles will disrupt farming and force a radical rethinking of how humans interact with the earth. In …
I asked ChatGPT to update Thomas Hardy’s view of woodland life. This could be seen as the imagination of a stage in the transition into the post-grown future—or maybe where it ends. In Thomas Hardy’s The Woodlanders (1887), the rural landscape of Little Hintock is a world bound by nature and the rhythms of agricultural …
Hideaway, a contributor to Tim Morgan’s blog points out that: We can’t mine, nor farm, nor gather fossil fuels the way we did 60 years ago, we already used up all those easy to get resources, we need the complex technology of 2024 to gather the much harder to obtain resources, all in a world …
The title and quotations are copied from a recent essay by Karl North. It is good. It was an eye-opener because it introduced me to systems thinking about agriculture. It’s a super holistic way by a farmer who practices what he writes. I am grateful to Karl North for providing an introduction to his essay: …
This 90 minute Roundtable podcast in Nate Hagens series the Great Simplification is fascinating. There are so many lessons which are relevant to the UK. To see the original go to https://youtu.be/lb2tJXopTJA__________________________________________________________________________________________________- The four speakers are as small-scale farmer Jason Bradford, permaculturist and documentarian Andrew Millison, regenerative agriculture activist Vandana Shiva, and regenerative farmer and …
Extract from discussion in the Surplus Energy blog: A friend of mine in Texas is building a large half-buried greenhouse. Putting the plants down in the ground several feet gives them the more stable climate they need. The trick was widely used in what is now southern Russia. But it was very labor intensive. The …
First published in the RADIX Think Tank I have just been listening to a podcast by Nate Hagens in his Great Simplification series. In this episode, Nate is joined by Daniel Zetah, who practices regenerative agriculture on his family farm in Minnesota. Daniel shares his experiences in becoming aware of the global challenges we face and …
