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Book Review: Sixty Harvests Left: Regenerating our planet and ourselves

December 28, 2023January 11, 2023 by John Yunker

I’ve long believed that the Dust Bowl years were the result of rampant over-farming and generally awful land management. And while this is true, what I didn’t realize until I had read Sixty Harvests Left was that even back then, when the “dusters” were an ever-present threat, there were those in positions of power who …

The One-Straw Revolution: On saving the planet, one garden at a time

September 29, 2019March 29, 2019 by John Yunker

I thought I knew a thing or two about gardening. But since undertaking a rather intensive gardener training program I now know just how little I actually knew about gardening. I’m not alone. It turns out that so much of what we’ve been told about gardening and farming over the past few decades — from …