Grow the Change: insects

Grow the Change

Showing posts with label insects. Show all posts

Showing posts with label insects. Show all posts

20 August 2009

Too much beauty

There's just too much beauty in the garden, I simply must share... Syriphid Fly eating the nectar of a Calendula Flower. Northern Leopa...

04 August 2009

Meta-predator meta-narrative: The portrait of a lady

Lady beetles have been breeding like crazy in our garden this summer. It has been an education to observe their life cycle, from larva to ad...

28 July 2009

Busy as a bee

Been canning and harvesting for the market garden this week, so I'll leave you with some pictures from the garden. Bumble bees are in a...

23 July 2009

Growing by degrees

The food cycle has finally reversed flow, there is more food coming into the house than we are able to eat... time to stock the pantry. With...

13 July 2009

Blooming

I do love vegetable flowers, and watching them unfold gives me more than an aesthetic satisfaction because the edible fruits are soon to fol...

06 July 2009

On Safari

After one entire week without a single ray of sun, we breathed a deep sigh of relief and exhilaration when the clouds and heavy fog finally ...

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Freija and Beringian Fritillary: We believe that growing our own food is the most radical and effective way to promote social justice, equality and sustainability. Everyone, to some extent, can grow their own food. It makes even more sense for communities to grow their own food, sharing responsibilities and costs. It requires a restructuring of values, the kinds of values that are necessary for a consumer culture to wake up to the exploitation and poverty we perpetuate throughout the world. Our socially and environmentally exploitive food-culture perpetuates the very resource wars and poverty that concern so many of us. Growing food brings our environment sharply into focus; we learn how much we rely on healthy food, healthy soil and an healthy ecosystem. On our homestead, and in this blog, we practice and advocate human-scaled food systems, with an intimate hands on approach, as a way for everyone on this earth to be nutritiously and sustainably fed, from the first world to the third world. Our diverse, closed-loop homestead is to us, a relevant form of protest, as well as a constructive way to build a sustainable future. We are all in this together. Not one of us lives on this earth alone.

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