Albert Bates

A Gathering of Silverbacks: Age of Limits 2014

Whenever such large shifts in temperature occurred in Earth’s history, they were not gradual but came in lurches. Resilience is…

Youre Inn at The Farm (Tennessee, USA)

Hi Y’all, Albert Bates here. For most of my life I have been working on ideas that could make the…

Recharting Collapseniks

Only a few are willing to risk arrest for the sake of an utopian outcome. Ted ‘The Unabomber’ Kaczynski obviously…

Charting Collapseniks

Rather than spurning financial system terrorists, Holmgren urges activists to become “terra-ists”; to directly bring down the system by thousands…

The Farm: Where We Have Come From and Our Plans For the Future

As we in the North approach the winter solstice — traditionally a time of slowing down, contemplation, and letting go…

Get Your Food from a Firehose

We have been delving into the dirty secret behind our food, which is that it comes from bacteria — primarily,…

Fomenting Ferment

by Albert Bates Sandor Katz lives a couple hours across Tennessee from us, so on a delightful April weekend we…

The Gift of the Maya

Goodbye Columbus

A.Eisenstaedt, Oklahoma Farmer 1942, Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images Forest gardening is about as close as any strategy comes to…

Ordeal: Mulling the Meaning of Rio+20

Leaving Rio de Janeiro, site of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, we mulled the meaning of what we had…

Rio+20: What Ecovillages Offer

It is the start of Rio+20, the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, and the Global Ecovillage Network has a strong…

Permaculture at The Farm

Former stockbroker Brian Bankston now calls himself the “Keyline Cowboy” after a carbon farming course at The Farm’s Ecovillage Training…