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The land wisdom of peasants and indigenous people is ultimately the land wisdom we moderns have to learn, not by some magic process of technology transfer but by long cultural development, starting now.
Adeena Paaske's "lightbulb" moment was the morning armed police burst into her Oamaru house, hand-cuffed her son, and then arrested her.
Every nation feeds off a fantastical past, yet each fantasises in its own way. The English ways include the fantasy that the heart of England beats not in the town but in the country – and, moreover, that this rural world takes the form of a landscape, which is to say: a view from afar. For the most part, the English, particularly the middle classes, would prefer that not too many people get in the way of that view. Latterly, the English landscape has even begun to merge into “nature”, preferabl
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At the end of 1,000 years of European peasantry, author and historian Patrick Joyce warns us that we might have to relearn their innate survivalism
The academic and author on the lessons we can learn from those who work the land, acquiring a second career in his 70s – and how he ‘dialogues’ with the spirit of Seamus Heaney