Urban Farming: Connecting the City to the Land
Michael Ableman speaks about his love for farming, that farming today can be a form of political activism and our need for more urban farms to connect us to not only the land but to see and taste the food that comes from the land.

The Food Revolution
Suebob Davis interviews John Robbins about his latest book.

Eating as a Political Act
"I realized I had better learn more about where my food was really coming from. But once I opened my eyes, the news wasn't pretty," writes author Jenny Kurzweil as she continues to inform us as to what she has learned along the way.

"Not by bread alone..."
Hunter Francis explores his deeply personal relationship to food from growing food to preparing it (as being a natural foods chef) and connecting to the sacredness of our food and the land.

Chinese Food: a Holistic Therapy
Food Professor Tom Neuhaus briefly explores the ancient Traditional Chinese Medicine and what we homo fastfoodici could learn from it.

Eating to Live
Selene Anema was allergic to everything including food. She is known today as a "canary," those growing numbers who are very sensitive to our environment. This short piece is part of her journey toward health.

Rape of the Rapeseed / Canadians Sue Monsanto
Suebob Davis reports on the shenanigans of Monsanto with the lawsuit against Percy Schmeister as well as 800 farmers suing Monsanto.

Sprouting Sustainability: The Raw Food Diet
Master raw foods chef Bruce Horowitz explains what this movement is all about. The reason to go raw is not just for health reasons but for sustainable cuisine... sushi, burritos, pizzas, pie, cakes and more raw food cuisine.

Balinese Food Foresters
Morag Gamble travels the world facilitating sustainable community development projects. She writes about Ekasari, a rural village in Bali where food forestry is abundant.

local sections...

Santa Barbara & South Coast

San Luis Obispo

Santa Cruz

departments...

Food-related websites

Permaculture Announcements

HopeDance Films at the Palm

In Memory of Lee Osbaldeston

HopeDance Pot Luck Party

In this Issue...
Food is so many things... scrumptious, delicious, bitter, sweet, nutritious, fun, pleasurable and on and on. It is also very political in the sense that there are decisions as to how and what actually makes it (or not) to our tables or restaurants, an aspect often veiled. HopeDance special issues deal with specific crises with an urgency to awaken and to encourage action. Our food, our very necessary substance for life, is being tampered with by obsessive anti-natural white-coated "scientists," it's lacking in nutritious content and spiritual aliveness, as well as being redirected away from the people who need it for survival....

columns...

Sustainable Living News

Eco-Elder News

Making Our Voices Heard

Health News

Possibilities

Parenting News

Green Party News

Bicycle News

Green Building News

poems...

Remembrance
by Michael McLaughlin

Caves, War and People
by Shepherd Bliss

A Rendering of Kabir
by Glena Luschei

Seedy Encore
by Neva Glenn

Not Buying It
by doug cronyn

The Kitchen Garden
by Barbara Marysdaughter

reviews...

The World is Not For Sale, Visionaries, Coming Home to Eat, Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms, More Fun Less Stuff, Stolen Harvest, The Decline and Fall of Public Broadcasting, Fateful Harvest, One Market Under God, Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood, The Greatest Story Never Told, The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight, Design Outlaws on the Ecological Frontier