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Permaculture magazine offers a great introduction to hugelkultur.

Illustration by Peter Arkle

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This article is so great to see! We spend a lot of time talking about community agriculture & its outcomes, but how do we see what the projects are actually leading to, producing, or changing?

Illustration by Owen Freeman

Photo: 1909 Swedish lithograph of a woman in her bathroom

Guerrilla Grafters Secretly Graft Fruit-Bearing Branches onto San Francisco Trees (from Mark Boyer at inhabit)

Dan Barber describes What Farm-to-Table Got Wrong over at the New York Times

Maryam Henein writes, “United Nations Calls for an End to Industrialized Farming” over at Truthout.

An analysis of 115 studies comparing organic and conventional farming finds that the crop yields of organic agriculture are higher than previously thought. Researchers also found that taking into account methods that optimize the productivity of organic agriculture could minimize the yield gap between organic and conventional farming.

Lacey Sikora write about new passive houses come to Chicago: "Oak Park architect Tom Bassett-Dilley and builder Brandon Weiss of Geneva's Evolutionary Home Builders have combined forces again to build a passive house in the near western suburbs."

Kriston Capps over at CityLab writes, "Every City Needs Vancouver's Ban on Food Scraps."

This Buzzfeed video of men talking about vaginas is awesome.

Knowledge is power, and we can promote a healthier relationship with sex. But first we need to stop perpetuating the following 17 myths about female sexuality.

14 food storage fixes