Keeping Time with Colombian Plantation Calendars
Timothy Lorek compares two calendars from Colombia that offer competing visions of plantation presents and agricultural futures.
Tagged: Food and Agriculture
Composting’s Colonial Roots and Microbial Offshoots
Current methods of composting came out of colonial plantation agriculture, but have become a key way of practicing polyculture and imagining multispecies communities.
Fugitive Seeds
Christian Brooks Keeve traces how fugitive seeds and seed stories are deeply entangled with the stories and legacies of the Black diaspora.
Can Small-Scale Farming Save Oil Palm?
Drawing from her fieldwork with small-scale oil palm growers and plantation workers in Colombia, Angela Serrano describes a smaller way to farm oil palm.
Sankofa Farms Is an Education: Five Questions for Kamal Bell
Farmer and educator Kamal Bell discusses the growth of Sankofa Farms and the legacies of racism and dispossession for African American farmers.
Organic Farming’s Political History
Organic farming has far-right roots. While the movement has grown beyond those, its history shows why we must examine our theories of social change.
Chicago’s Deep History of Vegetarianism: A Conversation with Connie Johnston and Kay Stepkin
The National Vegetarian Museum celebrates Chicago’s vegetarian past with a traveling exhibit about the vegetarian firsts of the Second City and beyond.
Can Aquaculture Make Seafood Sustainable?
Aquaculture is bringing seafood out of the sea. It might be a good idea.
Where Disability Rights and Animal Rights Meet: A Conversation with Sunaura Taylor
Artist and writer Sunaura Taylor charts a path toward disability and animal liberation by rethinking care and interdependence, understanding the environmental and physical burdens of our food systems, and more.
Food Is Just the Beginning: A Conversation with Monica White
Farming has been a part of Black freedom struggles for a long time. It’s always been about much more than growing food.
