Tag: food systems
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Human Leakage and the Continuity Gap – Rebuilding Southern Oregon One Connection at a Time
Throughout this series, we explored economic leakage, barriers facing farmers, missing infrastructure, biological value, and the networks that hold communities together. Each path ultimately led to the same place: people. Human Leakage and the Continuity Gap examines what happens when knowledge, relationships, and experience fail to move between generations, and why rebuilding Southern Oregon may…
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Mycelium vs. The Machine: Why Our Food System Keeps Breaking
Our food system keeps breaking not because people stopped caring, but because it’s built like a brittle machine: centralized and fragile. Mycelium shows a better way. This underground fungal network connects plants across vast distances, sharing nutrients and signals without a central boss. When one path fails, it reroutes. No collapse, just adaptation. Southern Oregon…
