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Digest - Features: Everybody (hearts) young farmers, meat graders, and organic charts
In-depth, offbeat, or thought-provoking features about aspects of SOLE food, from eating locally to farms marketing to methods of food preservation.
Digest - Commentary & Blogs: Organic+GM0s=win-win?; Swim with Jim; PB & Jeffries
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Coming home to industrial ag: A tour of the Central Valley
There’s an image that’s stuck with me from the cross-country drive that my dad and I took last summer. It was one of many late-night stints at the wheel, perhaps 11 p.m., and we were hurtling along through the Utah desert. A sign at the last gas station had warned us of a nearly 100-mile […]
Bread rises, and not just from yeast
Around the world there’s growing talk about food crisis as grain prices soar and supplies plummet. They’re talking food riots. And the American Bakers Association marched on Washington.
Meanwhile, in the breadbasket of the nation (a.k.a. Kansas), the price of bread rose yesterday in its best-known bakery, WheatFields. Nobody rioted.
“Today’s the day,” Thom Leonard announced when […]
Digest - News: Downergate public flogging, Farm Bill drags on, salmon sadness
Breaking news and developments, such as contaminated-food outbreaks, Farm Bill milestones, and how the farming community is faring around the world.
Digest - Features: The coming food storm, activists with cameras, bee breeders
In-depth, offbeat, or thought-provoking features about aspects of SOLE food, from eating locally to farms marketing to methods of food preservation.
“Good Morning America” — you’re being cornified!
Thanks to reader Henry for alerting us to the recent appearance of "King Corn" filmmakers Curt Ellis and Ian Cheney on "Good Morning America" with Diane Sawyer. The 5-minute segment was a good summary of the movie’s major points, particularly corn’s role in American obesity, and also included some facts sure to open a few […]
Help for Michelle Obama
The March 10 issue of the New Yorker includes a profile of Michelle Obama, the refreshingly candid (and awesomely tall) potential next First Lady.
Back in April, someone who was caucusing for Barack Obama in Iowa told me that the Mister had read Michael Pollan’s April 22 op-ed piece for the New York Times Magazine, "You […]
Soil vs. dirt
The radio program Living on Earth has been running excerpts from "Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape," a book by renowned nature writer Barry Lopez ("Crossing Open Ground," "Arctic Dreams," "Of Wolves and Men") that defines landscape terms such as pack ice, blind creek, and cascade. On a recent program, they featured a […]
Severine and “The Greenhorns”: Sowing the seeds of revolution
Have you ever encountered an idealistic young person with such presence that you thought, Whoa — this one might actually succeed in changing the world!? That’s the way I felt, anyway, on meeting Severine von Tscharner Fleming, who’s making the documentary “The Greenhorns,” about young farmers.
Digest - News: Apple-moth exposé, payment limit moving forward, food crisis
Breaking news and developments, such as contaminated-food outbreaks, Farm Bill milestones, and how the farming community is faring around the world.
Digest - Commentary: Mileage counts, Stonyfield rock-throwing
Editorials and op-eds about sustainable agriculture (or its opposite) from newspapers and websites big and small.
Digest - Features: Abattoir ambitions, grain stampede, farming the bluefin
In-depth, offbeat, or thought-provoking features about aspects of SOLE food, from eating locally to farms marketing to methods of food preservation.
Digest - Blogs: Obama comes to black farmers’ defense
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