Practical, climate-universal growing guides for gardeners and subsistence farmers. Planting, preservation, soil, water, and more. No paywall, no ads, no tracking.
Browse the guides →Field lessons from the slope. The Loop Farmstead channel, with episodes on soil, seed saving, preservation, energy, and food sovereignty.
See the videos →Meditations on Agriculture gathers four and a half thousand years of what the land has said, in plain words, for anyone willing to listen.
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What follows is not scholarship. It is what the land has always said, gathered from the oldest voices we have and offered again, in plain words, for anyone willing to listen.
Drawn from the Sumerian Farmer's Instructions, Hesiod, Xenophon, Theophrastus, Cato, Varro, Virgil, Columella, Pliny, Palladius, the Geoponica, Ibn Wahshiyya, Varahamihira, Crescenzi, Walter of Henley, Fitzherbert, and Tusser. With permaculture, solarpunk, and food sovereignty.
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