A typical Lombok petrol station
Typical Lombok petrol station Read More
Octopus’s gardens, myths and seeing what’s there
Through the clear water we could see the octopus’s garden on the lake bed below. It was bare. Rocks. Sandy backing only. But outside the desert circle it’s borders were green, ripe seagrass, whizzing fish and abundant life. So much for that myth. * (And I thought I could trust you, John Lennon!) While I laughed at the Beatles song in my head, Graeme, a fifth generation Australian fisher steadied his boat to slowly map the... Read More
How to promote my book with least ego?
I’m way over me. A subject that bores me. But I do want to promote my new book’s ideas and solutions. Almost every idea and solution in Sustainable Food is someone else’s. The book is really about other people, other ideas, the little critters and plants and all the wonders that make our food. It’s just reviving and repeating what ancient cultures, peasant cultures, farming cultures developed. So its fair that they –... Read More
kite flying in the land of rats for breakfast
The thick bread slice I’d left on the bench was gone. I’d been away five minutes, maybe. Through the dawn dark outside the raw, soaring, male voice called men to prayer. But the floor, the benchtops, the table were still. Empty. Suddenly the darkness embracing me a moment ago outside the wall-less, door-less, window-less roofed kitchen pavilion asked me in distinctly Western terms, “How now brown cow?” I had quick company, and the morning... Read More
ten more conversations for you at farmers markets than supermarkets
This is a useful study for its research on, among other things, urban farming; here are some snippets – enjoy: “Farming the Cities An estimated 800 million people are involved in urban farming worldwide. (p. 50) Consumers in urban areas pay up to 30 percent more for food than people in rural areas. In some cases, poor urbanites spend 60–80 percent of their income on food. (pp. 51–52) Studies show that people at farmers’ markets... Read More
