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Calling all small farmers: Eco-Farm pre-conference focuses on the business side of sustainability

By Guest • on November 16, 2009

By Rebecca Thistlewaite My husband Jim and I have been farming intently for about five years now, at TLC Ranch near Santa Cruz. Our business has grown

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Dispatch from Germany No. 2: Visiting three small but innovative farm-to-table enterprises

By Guest • on October 20, 2009

By Renee Ciulla As I wrote in my first

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Looking your bacon in the eye: Notes from a slaughter class

By Guest • on September 26, 2009

By Jake Lahne I want to describe our unfamiliarity with animal slaughter

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Flat world, fat world: Report from the Healthy Foods, Healthy Lives Symposium, part 1

By Guest • on September 23, 2009

By Nicole de Beaufort On September 21, 2009 in Minneapolis, a crowd of 300

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Farm Labor Experts: The Solution is Not For Sale

By Guest • on September 16, 2009

Friend o' Ethicurean Twilight Greenaway writes about sustainable food for San Francisco's Center for Urban Education about

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Just say YIMBY: Weed expert Nancy Gift talks about lawns for dinner

By Guest • on August 27, 2009

By Holly Hickman vs. Recently,

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“Food, Inc.” the book: Picking up where the documentary left off

By Guest • on July 26, 2009

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One step forward, one step back in food-growing progress

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Dispatch from Germany: An agroecology student dives deep into organic

By Renee Ciulla Although many days I would prefer to just pick up a shovel and start farming, I am forging ahead

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The lesson of ‘less’: Why ‘The End of the Line’ seafood documentary doesn’t go far enough

By Twilight Greenaway I walked out of the screening of “The End of the Line” feeling deeply uneasy. Most of my discomfort had been carefully orchestrated by the

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The right to bear farms: Severine von Tscharner Fleming, young-farmers champion

Editor's note: Severine von Tscharner Fleming first inspired me back in 2006, when she was just an

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Fujimotos’ departure from Monterey Market a tough blow to local food chain

By Carol Ness Calling Bill and Judy Fujimoto's forced departure on Wednesday from Berkeley's Monterey Market — after two years of family dissension over

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Nourishing Ohio’s downtowns, through community-food partnerships

North Market in Columbus, Ohio. Creative Commons/Flickr photo by TheeErin. By Kelly Ferry A food revolution is afoot in the

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Foraging and building tomato cages in Oakland

By Stephanie Paige Ogburn I’ve always found store-bought tomato cages to be utterly unsatisfactory. First of all, there’s the aspect of price. How a garden store can reasonably charge $6.99 for a piece

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