Just over a year after his death, FUKUOKA Masanobu was the main topic of conversation at our Thanksgiving meal table today. Fukuoka was an amazing man who I had the chance to meet at his farm on Shikoku Island back in 1985, when I was living in Japan. His contributions to agriculture, permaculture and profound philosophies undergirding farming, nature and life are innumerable.

Home-grown basil makes for a healthy, simple and quick meal year round when made into pesto and frozen in small portions.

Seattle Youth Garden Works is awesome, and I’m trying out this widget from change.org which allows you to give to the project. Go for it. Or start a fundraising page for them. Just click below… Interview with Marcus and Susan…

I have nothing particularly wise or illuminating to say at the moment. I just want to show you what I found in my garden this morning – my first home-grown Eggplant. Pretty cool, eh? My seminary theology professor taught that…

The Lesotho (know where it is? let us know in a comment) and Los Ranchos Presbytery Joining Hands partnership is looking into the role of GMOs, or genetic engineering, in their food system. Monsanto, the prime mover in GMO research…

Dear food and faithers, I thought a couple updates on the food crisis would be helpful while your two primary bloggers, Anitra and I, (let us know if you wish to write for this blog!) are here at the Peacemaking…

Who can earn God’s favor while still in the womb any way? Or earn God’s disfavor while still attached to an umbilical cord? Exactly how much trouble can we get into before we’re even born?

My daughters have converted me. I am a fan of the LOLcats. My particular fix is over at icanhascheezburger.com. LOLcats is part of a larger Internet Thing (also known as a mime) where one thing leads to another and soon…

As many as one in three children and adolescents are obese in the United States. Here are some recent articles on the topic thanks to Virginia Clarke of the Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders: A Plan for Overweight Kids…

If you want to beautify freeway space, feed the hungry, heal the earth and risk arrest, then guerrilla gardening is for you. This is a brilliant and hopeful new underground movement from a piece of God’s good earth that desperately…