Food

"Food belongs to the realm of everyday life, the primary arena for insurrectionary self-empowerment, all spiritual self-enhancement, all seizing back of pleasure, all revolt against the Planetary Work Machine & its imitation desires.
All food is soul food; to treat it otherwise is to court indigestion, both chronic & metaphysical"
Hakim Bey - The Temporary Autonomous Zone

"Can ya all stop rutting just for a moment so we can sort out this food, air deal."
Bill Hicks - Rant in E Minor

"At present the world relies on just four plants for most of its food: rice, wheat, maize and potatoes. This makes us extremely vulnerable to crop failure if conditions change, either due to global warming or for any other reason. We urgently need to diversify.
Most of us in Britain live in towns or cities. We may think there is little scope for growing food in cities but that is just what we need to do if any kind of city life is to continue beyond the present cheap energy boom. Enormous quantities of energy are used to transport food into the cities and it will not be available forever. We need to grow as much of our food as we can right where we live.
Allotments and city farms show how the city can be productive. The rest of the cityscape looks less promising until we start looking at it in three dimensions. We can train fruit trees against the walls, grow productive climbers up them and make great use of flat roofs and balconies. This is the principle of stacking applied to an urban situation."
Patrick Whitefield - Permaculture in a Nutshell

The minute you start growing your own food, you are making yourself less dependent on the commercial machine. If you grow your own food, have a rainwater butt in your yard, candles in your draw, a camping stove and a couple of gas bottle heaters, you're sorted. Think about it. Floods, petrol strikes, whatever, you're secure.
That's what makes me mad about some so-called anarchists - short-sighted, nihilist, boneheads that all want to bring down the system but haven't thought about how people are going to eat if it does collapse. A few weeks of hunger and they'll be screaming for a Big Brother to restore order. So let's sort out the basic details like food, water and heating before we rush to make any drastic changes.

Links:
Permaculture Association UK
Farmers Markets UK
UK Organic Directory

Books / Resources:

Urban Eden
Adam & James Caplin

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Gaia's Garden
Toby Hemenway

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Permaculture in a Nutshell
Patrick Whitehead

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The Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency
John Seymour

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Temporary Autonomous Zone
Hakim Bey

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Rant in E-Minor
Bill Hicks

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