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Earthbound Almanac

It Could Happen Here

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Farmer's Almanac for the End of the World

This is a farmer's almanac for the end of the world. Growing food used to be more straightforward when you'd plant your ocra the same time every year, like your grandpa did. Now we've got to be ready for anything, late spring freezes, freak heat waves that bring plants out of dormancy too early and fire season longer every year. To day's crisis has roots in the earliest moments of land theft against native peoples,. A process that has continued alongside hundreds of years of slavery and colonization. The way forward out of this mess will mean grappling with the crimes of the past, as well as charting a new course.

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