The New Farmer's Almanac, Volume VI: Adjustments and Accommodations

The New Farmer's Almanac Volume VI: Adjustments and Accommodations explores the power of collective agency in the face of uncertainties, including climate change, land dispossession, and global pandemic. It features contributions from around the Earth on natural systems, logistics of change, localization, resource sharing, and preservation, and encourages readers to envision tweaks to the carbon cycle and intercropping as a life practice.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 300 pages
Publication date: 27 April 2023
Publisher: The Greenhorns

The sixth edition of The New Farmer's Almanac, a biannual anthology from Greenhorns, a grassroots network dedicated to recruiting, promoting, and supporting new American farmers, delves into the complexities of our times. Recognizing our collective agency in the face of immense uncertainties, the almanac explores the multifaceted challenges posed by climate change, land dispossession, the global pandemic, shifting weather patterns, and migrations of species. It acknowledges the adaptability of nature, the potential of tiny particles of inspiration, and the interconnectedness of the living earth. Dynamic flux and rapid change remain possible, and the almanac encourages us to tap into the power of natural systems and the commons. Contributors from diverse corners of the globe offer insights into natural systems, logistics of change, localization, resource sharing, and preservation. They explore new experiments in planting, seed breeding, and composting, while contextualizing the past to inform our ideas for the future. The almanac also examines climate grief and cognitive dissonance within the imaginations of urban food systems and equitable access. It invites readers to envision tweaks to the carbon cycle, intercropping as a life practice, and sharing dinner as an embodied preservation of cultural foodways. This comprehensive compendium of ideas, strategies, and arguments honors the almanac tradition by featuring archival and contemporary words and artwork. It includes personal essays, reports from the field, poetry, and interviews, accompanied by photographs, maps, prints, drawings, and gems from the archives. By exploring these themes, The New Farmer's Almanac seeks to inspire and empower new farmers as they navigate the challenges and opportunities of our time.

Weight: 626g
Dimension: 172 x 216 x 31 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780986320545