By Alex Jack For tens of thousands of years, especially during the Ice Age, prehistoric artists filled cave walls with animals—bison, horses, mammoths and deer. Plants, despite sustaining human life, were conspicuously absent. Then, around 6200 BCE, something changed in northern Mesopotamia. Potters of the Halaf culture began covering exquisitely made bowls, jars and plates with
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By Sheri DeMaris Freshly made tofu in Benin, West Africa How will the world sustainably produce enough healthy food to feed nearly 10 billion people by 2050? This is one of the defining questions of our time. Around the globe, communities face rising food insecurity, chronic disease, and environmental degradation, while much of the world’s
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By Alex Jack An executive order by President Donald Trump early this year has ignited renewed controversy over glyphosate, the widely used herbicide at the center of thousands of cancer lawsuits. Framed by the administration as a matter of national security, the order seeks to ensure continued production of glyphosate and related materials, effectively strengthening
By Alex Jack The escalating war in Iran is not only a geopolitical and humanitarian crisis—it is also quietly undermining natural and holistic health communities, organic food systems, and traditional healing practices across the region. As violence spreads and infrastructure breaks down alongside the continuing reverberations of the Gaza conflict, these often-fragile networks—already operating at
New Documentary Film The Spirit of Rice is a heartfelt, one-hour journey into the soul of one of humanity’s most treasured foods. Filmed largely at South River Farm in Conway, Massachusetts, where Christian and Gaella Elwell have lovingly cultivated rice for a generation, the documentary follows the elegant rhythm of the seven stages of rice growing
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The traditional method used to grow rice beings around March, when seeds are planted in a sprouting bed. The bed is filled with soft mud and water to a depth of about knee-high. Unhusked rice seeds are planted, almost at random. Many seeds are planted in the bed. Several weeks later, sprouts appear, looking very
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