Agriculture Archives — The Common Table

SOS: Who’s Saving Our Soils?

16. March 2026
4 minute read

Have you heard of the EU Soil Strategy for 2030? It was launched in November 2021 as part of the European Green Deal, and its first law, the Soil Monitoring Law, went into force in December 2025. But is it enough to save our soils and ourselves?

The Last Harvest

2. March 2026
4 minute read

Dr Debal Deb and The Last Harvest is a documentary about one man's decades-long battle to rescue India's indigenous rice diversity from oblivion. Journalist Dan Saladino visits Basudha Farm in Odisha, to learn about how he is building a sustainable legacy.

The Future is Ancestral

12. February 2026
12 minute read

An agricultural collective called Arca Tierra supplies 50 city restaurants as well as locals with fresh food by reviving ancestral agriculture practices in the Chinampas wetlands near Mexico City. The Common Table spoke to the farm coordinator Sebastián Herrera, about finding what was lost.

a squash bee sleeping in a squash flower

The Honey Merchant

29. January 2026
11 minute read

Diego Contreras is a biologist and honey expert from the uniquely biodiverse region of Oaxaca. His project Nunduve aims to educate consumers about honey's origins and environmental issues, rather than just its flavours and uses.

A Taste for Microplastics

17. November 2025
10 minute read

Microplastic pollution expert Dr Sherri Mason talks to The Common Table about the pervasive presence of tiny plastic particles within the planet’s ecosystems and why we are being encouraged to keep adding more, not less, of them to our food and soils.

A Game of Monopoly

30. May 2025
10 minute read

We talk to Canadian political economist Jennifer Clapp about her latest book, “Titans of Industrial Agriculture” and the evolution of an extreme concentration of power that has allowed 12 companies to control most of the world's food production.

Ancient Grains & Other Myths

26. February 2025
10 minute read

Fabio Aranzulla and Luca Cinquemani, are an artistic duo going by the name of Aterraterra. Their work intersects art and agricultural practices, questioning accepted narratives within agriculture and food cultures.

Urban Fungi Farm

24. July 2024
10 minute read

Food startup expert Eldad Arnon is the co-founder of the gourmet urban mushroom farm Tupu in Berlin. TCT talked to him about the realities of sustainable urban food production and his vision for changing how we produce food.

Redesigning Rural Relations

26. June 2024
5 minute read

Designer and artist Anastasia Eggers' rethinking of the farmers' almanac Migrating Seasons is one of 16 projects in a new book exploring narratives for existing, disappearing and emerging relationships in the countryside.