The Poor Prole’s Almanac

We spend some time talking about what colonization looked like for the Anishanaabe, how colonization destroys foodways, and what decolonization looks like as a model for others to move forward.   Sources: Stories that Nourish: Minnesota, Anishinaabe ...

In this episode, we explore the evolution of the indigenous people of Lake Turkana. We look at how their subsistence farming evolved with a rapidly shifting climate and how both the ecology benefits from human involvement & how a unique collectivist ...

We chat about the ecological and agricultural history of the Southern tip of India and how the indigenous farming practices have evolved over 4,000 years to meet the changing climate!     https://www.researchgate.net/publication/225745850_Agroforestr...

In this episode we discuss the complex history and indigenous farming practices in Japan. We also spend some time chatting about Japan's solutions to its collapsing ecology, and their shortfalls.     Sources: Satoyama: The Traditional Rural Landscape...

In this episode, we're chatting about a forgotten history of Norwegian indigenous farming practices and their abundant relationship with an unforgiving environment.   Works Cited: A study of practical pollarding techniques in northern Europe- Helen R...

In this episode, we review a quick history of urban farming in Detroit and interview Malik Yakini, the Executive Director of the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network & D-Town Farms. We chat about the role of dual power systems to challenge c...

In this episode, we're looking out how Cuba utilized both its massive state power and the creativity and bold thinking of its citizens to create decentralized urban farms after the collapse of the Soviet bloc. What can we learn about decentralized fo...

The first episode of our new miniseries entitled "The Prole Models", we decide to get into the tough content of the complex history of permaculture, the problems with its history, the evolution of permaculture in modern agriculture, and how it can fr...

We're bringing everything we've covered in the agriculture content together and using PA Yeomans Scale of Permanence to design a site for agro-ecological abundance!   Sources: Yeomans, P.A. (1954). The Keyline Plan

We're taking a look at the Irish civil war and the conditions that led up to it and its conclusion with comedian and historian, Nash Flynn. What parallels do we see playing out here in the United States, and what can we learn from the efforts of the ...