Think Like Pirates

Mar 15, 2025

In a relationship that became formalized in the Circo Massimo Farmers Market in Rome, the Italian farmers’ union Coldiretti agreed to join forces with the Mississippi Association of Cooperatives to undertake a shared learning process to identify promising practices that work on both sides of the Atlantic to stabilize family agriculture in an age when the next generation opt to leave the farm for urban opportunities.

Jan 3, 2025

November's US national election results brought me back to when I first turned my attention to food as an organizing strategy in Louisiana. Am I the only one feeling a strange sense of deja vu?

Oct 29, 2024

From the land that gave us agriculture comes a new farmers market led by the Alexandria Chamber of Commerce. 

Jul 2, 2024

Is Barilla’s slogan to be believed? In Union Square’s Greenmarket, New Yorkers were introduced to the authentic practice of making real Italian food served with fresh, local ingredients. Consumers are shopping for answers. 

Feb 26, 2024

Available 27 February 2024 in audio format, listen to narrator Kym Miller read the book. Available from wherever you purchase audio books. 

Feb 25, 2024

The Mediterranean and African Markets Initiative kicked off its intensive peer-to-peer training for market leaders in Albania, Egypt, Kenya, Lebanon, and Tunisia at the CIHEAM-Bari's Tricase campus. I am very excited about how this model is emerging as relevant to other places on the map where a farmers market strategy can elevate grassroots leadership and family agriculture into a force. 

Sep 14, 2023

In August, I traveled to Egypt with colleague Carmelo Troccoli to investigate the potential for new farmers markets in the very place that developed so much of what we know today in agriculture: crop varieties, wheat, irrigation, for starters. Modern Egypt is a dynamic and complicated place.  

Sep 14, 2023

Read Dirk Bischof, CEO and Founder, Hatch Enterprise in the UK interview Kuni co-author Tsuyoshi Sekihara with the able translation help of Fumiko Miyamoto. Online

Aug 9, 2023

Agriculture and innovation from the ground up. Louisiana Eats is an essential part of the acoustic landscape in the Bayou State. So happy to join Poppy Tooker for an episode. 

Aug 8, 2023

Farmers markets on the move at the 2023 UN Food Systems Summit +2 in Rome

May 31, 2023

The World Farmers Markets Coalition (or WorldFMC) hosted its first General Assembly in Rome of more than 75 market leaders, farmers, and partner organizations from over 50 countries on World Biodiversity Day 2023, and named me its President. 

May 25, 2023

With spring, Kuni hit the road with the first two in-person book events in Louisiana and Massachusetts

Feb 23, 2023

Influential author David Graeber's posthumous book, Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia, discussed on Graham Culbertson's podcast, Everyday Anarchism. Listen here. 

Feb 19, 2023

This may have been the most thorough interview thus far for Kuni. Listen to the 60 minute podcast hosted by Christine Barrington. 

Jan 27, 2023

Book enthusiasts in the New Orleans region have come to trust Susan Larson's literary lead for ages. For this reason, I was so happy to sit down with Susan to discuss Kuni for her WWNO weekly show, "The Reading Life." Listen here. 

Jan 20, 2023

Earth911 publisher Mitch Ratcliffe interview Richard McCarthy about the Japanese approach to reconnecting urban to rural communities. Listen here. 

Dec 12, 2022

As a longtime fan of Civil Eats, it is especially meaningful to be included in its recommendations of nearly two dozen books ideal for gift-giving at the holidays. 

Dec 11, 2022

The emergence of this global community of practice is assembling important partners, en route to its first General Assembly in 2023. Read more from the 3-Minute Read newsletter. 

Nov 11, 2022

Andrew Keen's daily show about books, writers, and big ideas, Keen On, interviewed me about Kuni. Listen to the podcast and/or watch the streaming conversation here. 

Nov 3, 2022

The podcast about books and ideas features Kuni in its 3 November 2022 episode. Listen here by clicking the link to podcast

Oct 4, 2022

In 2001, the Italian government introduced legislation that has set the nation's farmers on a bold new path. The rest of Europe could learn from this experience that has 20 years to mature. So, too, can we. Agriculture that is multifunctional values more than productivity and scale. It procures rural resilience. 

Aug 10, 2022

Don't miss this edition of the Urbanistica podcast. Hosted by charismatic placemaking leader based in Stockholm, Mustafa Sherif, we dive into food, farming and the future. 

Nov 15, 2021

Working with Meatless Monday and the Slow Beans network in Italy, come see what's cooking.