Scrap Farm charts the starting of a soil-building, affordable, community-centred vegetable farm.
The Scrap Farm community brings together plant-based activists, helping to create food sovereignty while learning from traditional practices and new ideas. From insights into living seasonally, foraging timetables, scrap recipes and ways to grow whatever seed you find, Scrap Farm is breaking down the knowledge barriers between us and the natural world.
Drawing from indigenous knowledge (whose sources are always acknowledged, thanked and celebrated), traditional practices and sporadic science, this newsletter is for those looking to learn, explore and grow.
Previously under the name of Scrap Kitchen (launched in February 2021), I originally focused more on my learning-to-farm journey along with everything from pagan folklore to monocropping, with a splash of apocalyptic musings and queer lichen. If any of these take your fancy, give them a read.
Now that we have launched our farm, which has been four years in the making, the focus has shifted. Every other week, you will receive a podcast /newsletter update on the progress of the farm. The challenges we face and the choices we make.
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To get a taste, check out our popular post on Thistles and the coming Fire Season, or take a listen to my latest podcast appearance on The Catmaste Chronicles talking all about Climate Change/ Seed Saving/ Food Waste/ Poetry.
Can’t wait for you to join; stay scrappy.
M
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Keep in touch on Instagram, check out our range of free resources, sign some petitions to support Black Lives Matter and read/listen to this stunning essay from Robin Wall Kimmerer (author of Braiding Sweetgrass) about the Honourable Harvest and “Corn”.
