The printed archives of Low-tech Magazine now amount to four volumes with a total of 2,398 pages and 709 images.
In the mid 20th century, whole cities’ sewage systems safely and successfully used fish to treat and purify their water. Waste-fed fish ponds are a low-tech, cheap, and sustainable alternative to deal with our own shit – and to obtain high protein food in the process.
If the electricity for a vertical farm is supplied by solar panels, the energy production takes up at least as much space as the vertical farm saves.
From the Neolithic to the beginning of the twentieth century, coppiced woodlands, pollarded trees, and hedgerows provided people with a sustainable supply of energy, materials, and food.
During the first half of the twentieth century, Soviet citrologists grew (sub)tropical plants in temperatures as low as minus 30 degrees Celsius – outdoors, and without the use of glass or any fossil fuel-powered assistance.
The second volume features a third of the web articles published in the earlier years, carefully selected for their continued relevance and interest today.
When modernity meets its end-point and creates a world where everything is sterile, controlled, and known, there will be little space for fermentation.
Vietnam’s decentralised food system has low energy inputs and reduced food waste, giving us a glimpse of what an alternative food system might look like
Pigeon towers helped Persian farmers cultivate all kinds of crops on previously arid, thin-soil land.
From the sixteenth to the twentieth century, urban farmers grew Mediterranean fruits and vegetables as far north as England and the Netherlands, using only renewable energy.
Contrary to its fully glazed counterpart, a passive solar greenhouse is designed to retain as much warmth as possible.
Fish fermentation allowed the ancient Romans to store their fish surplus for long periods, in a time when there were no freezers and fishing was bound to fish migratory patterns.