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Perennial Power: Why You Need Perennials in Your Garden

Keeping up with a garden can be a lot of work; luckily, there’s a secret weapon that will take away…

9 Things to Consider When Building Your Own Greenhouse

Daydreaming of extending your growing season and building your own greenhouse? After considering the following factors and making a few…

An Interview With Vandana Shiva and Dougald Hine: Finding Humility at the End of Modernity

Matthew Derr, Executive Director of The Chelsea Green Foundation, recently sat down with Dougald Hine, Co-Founder of the Dark Mountain Project…

Open-Source Agriculture: “Hacking” the Farming Industry

Whether we like it or not, technology is quickly evolving and continues to be an integral part of our everyday…

Farming for the Long Haul: It Takes a Village

It’s almost impossible to achieve farming for the long haul without a group of caretakers behind the scenes, making sure…

Chelsea Green Staff Picks for Your 2023 Reading List

From the enlightening and thought-provoking to the quirky and fun, we, the Chelsea Green employee-owners, have the perfect list to…

Avoiding Fallacies: Finding Our Place in the Mosaic

The Chelsea Green Foundation, a private operating foundation that supports activists, artists, farmers, writers, and other practitioners in challenging orthodoxy, exchanges creative…

The Phases of Composting

Although the stages of composting are very closely intertwined, each separate one has its own value and needs to be…

Who Are We as Farmers?

Recently, farmers have been making the headlines because of the hardships they’re facing to sustain their farms. With larger, corporate…

How to Get the Most Out of Your Wood-Fired Oven

What could be better than an oven you can build yourself, that allows you to cook an array of delicious…

The Lean Farm Guide: CSA Boxes

CSA boxes are becoming popular as the idea of buying local continues to become more appealing. As a farmer, offering…

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Homesteading: Highlighting Our Need For Each Other

Homesteading isn’t meant to be a solitary adventure, done in isolation. Building and living on your land takes at least…

Save Your Soil the Power of Pee

It’s time to roll up your sleeves and get down into the dirt – but you may want to grab…

Neighbor Loaves Program: Maintain Grain Value Chains and Feed the Community

By Amy Halloran, author of The New Bread Basket. It originally appeared on foodsystemsjournal.org. The Neighbor Loaves Program In the…

Ireland: A Journey into the Heart and Soul

The following is an interview with Ruairí McKiernan, author of Hitching for Hope, and originally appeared in the Chelsea Green…

The Man Who Planted Trees Before His Time

Though nature can be a mighty force, it takes great care and a gentle hand to support the growth of…

Resiliency: Becoming an Adaptive Human

They say history is bound to repeat itself if we don’t take the time to learn from the past. Our…

Publishing in the Time of a Pandemic: On Birth and Survival

The following is by Charlotte Dennett, author of Follow the Pipelines, and originally appeared on Medium.com. It has been adapted for the…

Survive the Future: Three Principles to Get Started

What guiding principles will you need to not just survive the future, but imagine a better one? To answer this…

Limits to Growth and the COVID-19 epidemic

It comes to no surprise to anyone that the human population continues to grow, rapidly. However, there is a limit…

A Dictionary for Our Times

How would you define the word “Empowered”? Before you run to the dictionary, we’re not talking about the straight definition;…

Planet Coronavirus: Survival, Resistance and Regeneration

“There are times in history when sudden events—natural disasters, economic collapses, pandemics like Coronavirus, wars, famines—change everything. They change politics,…