This Christmas holiday I plan to make a soufflé. Not just any old soufflé, but what is probably the best pudding I have ever eaten, which was made…...
Read MoreI have written for Stir to Action magazine, Reconnect, Alternative UK, P2P foundation, The Schumacher Institute and Resilience.org. Topics include: the real economy, land, play, story, and finding ways to live well in a crazy beautiful world.
No more business as usual – Rethinking economic value for a post-Covid world
“No economic interest, under no circumstance, can be above the reverence of life.” – Manfred Max-Neef, Chilean economist, 1932 -2019 A national conversation has begun which is alarming,…...
Read MoreA licence to print money
“As people we have a right to make credit and loan money. We mustn’t forget that. We mustn’t leave that to corporations and the state.” Duncan McCann, New…...
Read MorePlaying for our lives
One sunny afternoon a few years ago, my then 9-year-old son uttered those words every parent or carer will be familiar with: “Mum, I am bored.” I gave…...
Read MoreSix Steps back to the Land
In Britain, over 20% of us are now considered obese, 40 % of our food is imported (with serious implications for food security and sovereignty), youth unemployment is at 14.4% and social…...
Read MoreTo never be forgotten
“He could reconstruct all his dreams, all his fancies. Two or three times he had reconstructed an entire day. He told me: I have more memories in myself…...
Read MoreEconomics and the Art of Living
Think about your week. Did you spend time with a good friend? Get a chance to stare out the window or look up at the clouds and let…...
Read MoreBehold my friends, the Spring has come!
“Behold, my friends, the spring has come; the earth has received the embraces of the sun and we shall soon see the results of that love! Every seed…...
Read MoreRegarding the Land
“What I stand for is what I stand on.” ― Wendell Berry Several years ago I was invited to work on a ‘Soil and Story’ project for the…...
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