Now, being an ethnobotanist Is not all that different From being a musician, Ballerina or chef: You’ve got to…
Although the many beings lost or wounded in our foodshed, somehow seem nameless & numberless, we vow to remember their…
The owl cries out before the dawning light To all the other desert dwellers, proclaiming “I’m still here! Maybe you…
Pope Francis paraphrased: “…access to safe drinkable water is a basic and universal human right, since it is essential to human survival and, as such, is a condition for the exercise of other human rights.”
On the bottom side, of each flat rock, that has found a way, to reach its angle of repose, on the desert’s bottom floor, a sheen of droplets, forms at night, enough to fill a single cup.
We are not alone in our struggle to achieve food security in the face of climate change. We are all in this together, growing food in partnership with diverse seeds, breeds, soil microbes, pollinators and other beneficial insects.
But we need to acknowledge our interdependence with these other lives, because our fates are intertwined.
Our mouths, our hearts, our bellies and brains
have been ruminating for centuries
over the same few simple questions:
Just what exactly is it that we want to have cross our lips,
to roll off our tongues, down our throats,
to fill our nostrils with hardly described fragrances,
to slide to a brief halt within our bellies,
Agrarian poetry? Agrarian prophesies? Agrarian urgencies? One might wonder whether any 21st century preoccupation with agrarian values and agrarian ideals comes as too little, too late, for less than one in six of all Canadian and U.S. citizens live in rural areas outside of towns, cities and suburbs. But listen up. Look again.
With future generations in mind, my family will never leave the land we steward poorer, nor its water scarcer than…
By Gary Paul Nabhan for Slow Food Nation The Earth has grown tired of making fossilized food Tired of having…
Dedicated to Anita Alvarez de Williams, Nuestra Señora de la Delta During the drought year of 2002, front-page headlines…