Rethinking American Agriculture: Fertilized Farms and Victory Gardens
Fresh perspectives on fertilizer use and victory gardens reveal complex connections between business, the state, and the natural environment.
Tagged: Food and Agriculture
Turning Toward
A writer’s poignant reflections on care and healing. What might happen if we all turned toward, instead of away?
Tilefish and Jello Salad for Family and Nation
When the National Canners Association and the US Bureau of Fisheries write the recipes, Americans learn to serve Jello Salad and Tilefish for dinner.
Natural Food to Eat When Changing the World
Two recipes drawn from research reveal how cookbook authors believed natural food had the ability to withstand physical, moral, and social degradation.
What is Food Studies?
Stressing intimacy, structures of power, social justice, and action, food studies is giving interdisciplinarity a good name.
Edgy Stuff: October 2016 Recommendations
October 2016 recommendations from the Edge Effects editorial board.
The Cannabis Frontier
For 40 years California’s Emerald Triangle has provided the one critical environmental factor required to grow cannabis: isolation. That’s about to change.
How Activists Are Taking on Factory Farms
Activists gather at a summit over factory farm expansion, offering an economic vision based on the value of clean water.
Edgy Stuff: August 2016 Recommendations
August 2016 recommendations from the Edge Effects editorial board.
Wasting Space: Composting for Change in New York
A compost organization in New York City offers up an alternative vision of urban green space and waste labor.
