Tag: Farm-scale

  • Food Sovereignty as a step toward community resilience

    Food Sovereignty as a step toward community resilience

    Overview When we want to support local agriculture we think first to plant a garden or organize a farmers market. But rarely do we take the next logical step, which is to use local law to protect that sustainable agriculture system that we’re trying to build. When we don’t take that step, agribusiness corporations step…

  • Food Forest Design Intensive with Maine Farmland Trust

    Food Forest Design Intensive with Maine Farmland Trust

    This weekend workshop will be an exercise in applied permaculture design to a working farm called Rolling Acres in Jefferson.  We will host a workshop that facilitates the design of a food forest whose products will be used to help supply a food bank program called Veggies for All. This course is unique because: It’s…