Featured Articles

12.08.13

Land, Debt and Jubilee
Mike Hannis

Mike Hannis finds that indebtedness among small farmers is an old story with far-reaching implications.

11.08.13

Permaculture: Back to Basics?
Patrick Whitefield and Simon Fairlie

Permaculture seems to have grown almost as many interpretations as there are practitioners. Patrick Whitefield talks to Simon Fairlie.

11.08.13

Permaculture: The Big Rock Candy Mountain
Peter Harper

Peter Harper of CAT suggests taking the cult out of permaculture.

02.07.13

The Problem with 'Peasants'
Gill Barron

Gill Barron celebrates a rebranding.

01.07.13

Rewilding and Food Security

Simon Fairlie

Simon Fairlie on the consequences of banishing farm livestock from marginal areas.

30.01.13

The Original Green Guerrillas?
Paul Kingsnorth

Paul Kingsnorth reinterprets Green Men as potent symbols of resistance to the Norman landgrab.

28.01.13

Enclosure on the Grand Scale

Simon Fairlie

The similarities between landgrabbing and the enclosure of English Commons.

22.01.13

Green Conservatism
Mike Hannis

Mike Hannis finds Roger Scruton still regretting the French Revolution.

21.01.13

Better a Bagger than a Grabber

Gill Barron

Landgrabbing is OK when it’s DIY, claims Gill Barron.

20.01.13

CAP in Hand
Ed Hamer

Ed Hamer asks whether the Single Farm Payment has led to more farmland in fewer hands.

Farmer stacking hay