Article published in the Spring 2025 Honest Weight Coop Scoop on Backyard Chickens.

In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the namesake character grapples with existential questions and various dilemmas. Just as Hamlet contemplates the implications of his actions and their consequences, could one see parallels in our modern society, and how we behave when faced with ethical and moral quandaries?

Permaculture is more than a design science—it is a living remembrance of humanity’s ancestral intimacy with the land.

As the days grow longer and temperatures rise, many are eager to clean up their yards and gardens, but an early spring cleanup can be ecologically harmful.

Nuclear is often promoted as a “cleaner” alternative to coal and other fossil fuels due to its low direct emissions, this framing generally ignores the broader ethical and environmental consequences of this technology.

Permaculture, as a holistic design system, stands at the forefront of sustainable living by emphasizing the creation of regenerative systems that harmonize with the natural world.

Sustainability has been hijacked by consumerist culture, and we need to be asking harder questions about what “green” or “sustainability” really means.

This practical and engaging online course will serve as an introduction to permaculture, which is an ethics-based design framework for creating sustainable and regenerative systems inspired by natural ecosystems.

A piece of kids in Nature republished in Honest Weight Food Co-op’s ‘Coop Scoop’ magazine.

The aesthetic of this product may appeal to those obsessed with the suburban credo of manicured lawns. But what are the ecological downsides?

Here we explore the terms aspect, microclimate, and sectors as they relate to designing sustainable landscapes, and more generally in permaculture design.

You can find a short article by us in the Spring 2024 issue of the local Coop Scoop Magazine! Read the article by clicking here, or by stopping in to Honest Weight Food Co-op and picking up a print version!

You are invited to attend one or both of our Earth Month themed talks at Honest Weight Food Co-op in Albany, New York.

With approximately 55% of the world’s population currently living in urban areas, and nearly 90% of the United States’ population now living in only 50 urban aggregations, we are facing a huge issue that is often glossed over, and that is organic waste.