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the entrance
Some solutions take us years to find, then just seem obvious. We may be painfully slow to see how we can change the way we live for a better world, but we’ve got one thing going for us. Humans love to...
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making biochar
As carbon sequestration goes, charcoal-making has extraordinary potential. Last year we had the good fortune to spend a day learning to make charcoal with a local historian and tried out the basics of...
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green walnut nocino
If there is art in an agrarian practice, it’s in humble solutions that close the loop. Allow the freshly clasped jar of nocino to illustrate. Nocino is the infusion of young, green walnuts in alcohol,...
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life with geese
We were surprised by the young geese urgently knocking at the front door. They had a great deal to tell us. A moment later, a delivery van pulled up to the farmhouse. A rare event. They’d raced to the...
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life with chickens
Picture, if you will, the things we hold dear in this world, only on a slightly different trajectory. Picture them well-supported by a principle of following natural patterns, of meeting needs the way...
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the resilient pantry
Panic-buying on the one hand and rationing on the other only multiply a crisis. Yet there’s a practical solution that meets a primal need in one classic, simple pattern. Yes. The pantry. The ills of a...
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big things. little things.
while you’re going about your day you might enjoy listening along to this interview on Big things. Little things. sophie and i get deep into conversation about food security, parenting in climate...
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perceiving the limits
recently, i had the pleasure of co-authoring this article for the journal of philosophical inquiry in education, with my island neighbour and professor of education, claudia ruitenberg. it’s a special...
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towards an ecological economy
you might like to have a look at a piece i wrote for radicle, a letter out of the uk on alternative gardening. it has a lot of resonance with the third episode in the journal of small work*...
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shifting to a needs-based economy
i had the great pleasure of getting more deeply into big picture and little, with sophie from big things, little things, on shifting to a needs-based economy. you can listen to it here. perfect if you...
View Articlewhen the treetops crash to the earth –
on culturing what is. this small work* is a radio companion piece to a future film about tree pollarding and wood cutting. it looks at the tiny spheres of our influence over time, and how we might...
View Articleacting like the world revolves around us –
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View Articleshifting a life into harmony –
this small work* agrees that moving into positive futures requires great inner transformation, which in turn demands gentleness and compassion. practicing this on a small scale prepares us, even if it...
View Articlethe future we want to live in –
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View Articlewithin our influence –
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View Articlemaking a minimal, utilitarian wardrobe–
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making biochar
As carbon sequestration goes, charcoal-making has extraordinary potential. Last year we had the good fortune to spend a day learning to make charcoal with a local historian and tried out the basics of...
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green walnut nocino
If there is art in an agrarian practice, it’s in humble solutions that close the loop. Allow the freshly clasped jar of nocino to illustrate. Nocino is the infusion of young, green walnuts in alcohol,...
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life with geese
We were surprised by the young geese urgently knocking at the front door. They had a great deal to tell us. A moment later, a delivery van pulled up to the farmhouse. A rare event. They’d raced to the...
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