“A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History” deals with these questions, except that it sees globalization as a much older phenomenon. The book explores the energetic, biological and linguistic history of the millennium, and finds global connections (in disease pools, for example, or in ecological and linguistic colonialism) that have existed for centuries. What may be [...]

Today I had the great pleasure of making the acquaintence of Fred Bahnson, the garden manager of Anathoth Community Garden in Cedar Grove, NC. We talked for a couple of hours; and I suspect we will be talking for quite a few more. Before I left, I had my first taste of Austrian winter peas, [...]

We’re all familiar with the myth: we learned it in school. It goes something like this: Once Upon a Time, in the 1960′s, a crew of brilliant whitefellas in lab coats Saved the World by revolutionising farming and eliminating world hunger. Their new, advanced mechanical/chemical farming methods — vast areas of monocrop, heavy tractors, giant [...]

If you’re reading this, then you should be correctly connected to the new location of Feral Scholar, now hosted on a v-server at linode.com. Posting and commenting are now open on this server. If you previously saw a version featuring a Housekeeping Bulletin which advised you not to post, that was the old server waving [...]

Made last year, this little 17-minute vid tells a lot.

The “food safety” bills in Congress were written by Monsanto, Cargill, Tysons, ADM, etc. All are associated with the opposite of food safety. What is this all about then? In the simplest terms, organic food and a rebirth of farming were winning. Not in absolute numbers but in a deep and growing shift by the [...]

CRISIS IN THE HEARTLAND Consequences of the New Wall Street System The long credit crunch that began in the Atlantic world in August 2007 is strange in its extraordinary scope and intensity. Mainstream discourse, referring to a ‘sub-prime’ crisis, implies that the credit crunch has been caused, rather than triggered, by a bubble in the [...]

Apologies to those who have tried and failed to post comments at Insurgent American for the “Apocalypse Now” theological study. My web guru tells me that comments have been disabled there; so we will post comments here in relation to that study. Comments for this will be strictly limited to those who are participating in [...]