Summary

The world food and energy crises are highly interlinked problems stemming from the fact that we have largely rejected the practices of food cultivation in gardens, the traditional focus of all human societies, which has brought them knowledge about nature, patience, health and enjoyment. Much more of the food we eat could be produced in and around our society, in many small, diverse food gardens, protecting the soil, enriching our diets and teaching children the cultural value of food and its centrality to our existence, while simultaneously reducing our dangerous and unsustainable dependency on unrenewable energy and capricious financial markets.