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During a gap year, former Shanghai new-media practitioner Tian She Lao Weng joined Foodthink’s Lianhe Project at Zhiliangtian Farm on the edge of the Tengger Desert in Alxa, Inner Mongolia, seeing how farming, the rain and melon sales connect food and ecology to personal life.
In 2021, the first season of the reality documentary *Clarkson’s Farm*, featuring a grumpy old man trying his hand at farming, earned a high score of 9.6 on Douban. This February 10th, the second season is set to premiere. Why has Jeremy Clarkson—the wealthy old man and former host of…
Foodthink’s Take How exactly is agriculture being affected by climate change? Foodthink has published a series of articles on this topic. Today, we share the insights of a grower on the front line. Zhao Fei graduated from the College of Agriculture at China Agricultural University, after which he joined Pingren…
At the end of 2021, while still working for an internet company in Shanghai, I came across a recruitment notice for Foodthink’s ‘Ecological Agriculture Intern Programme’, and something about it really resonated with me. Once my application was accepted, I chose ‘Meeting Farm’ in Meishan, Sichuan, as my destination. As…
For most people, 2022 felt like a rollercoaster, full of highs and lows. The team at Foodthink felt much the same; our ambitions, which in 2021 had been to venture far and wide, shifted towards a state of constant apprehension and anxiety.
Once pioneer species establish themselves within an ecosystem, they gradually improve its carrying capacity, paving the way for a wider variety of other species to enter. As biodiversity within the system increases, the pioneer species themselves are gradually marginalised. — Pioneer species, an ecological concept I. I. Around ten years…
An independent filmmaker in Kunming, Chen Chong, spent less than a month at Liangliang Farm in Sichuan, where Tang Liang’s reunited family, shared meals and daily weeding offered a lasting sense of strength.
Happy New Year to all our readers! Over the last five years, Foodthink has published 486 original articles exploring a broad spectrum of topics within the realms of food and agriculture. Our work has bridged the gap between city and countryside and broken down disciplinary silos, encompassing nearly 20 key…
I. I. Mother’s Hearth Leaving Lijiang Ancient City to the northwest and passing Lashi Lake, we could see the silver-white peaks of the Jade Dragon and Haba snow mountains in the distance as we travelled through the high mountain valleys along the banks of the Jinsha River. Mid-October marks the…
In 2015, by a stroke of luck, I found myself in an intentional community in southern Germany, where I was first introduced to organic farming. Since then, I have worked on three different organic farms, first as a volunteer and later as an agricultural apprentice with Demeter im Norden. In…
