Climate change already yielding food disruptions
A recurring theme of last fall's Kaw
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Mini-Digest: Monsanto wants to “save” the world, Kill Bill Vol. 247, SOLE research in the pipeline
You say crisis, we say …Croesus: Monsanto has launched a massive PR campaign (New
Are tomatoes the kickoff to food-illness season?
Ugh. Looks like our industrial food system is cranking out the
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Local food promoted as economic development tool
It's one of the ironies of our food system that here in Kansas, one of the largest agriculture states in the union, we don't have a whole lot of local
Local meat gets star treatment at Kansas farmers market
Kansas may be the beef
Gary Nabhan wants you to go native for SOLE food
Could native foods be the next big thing in eating? Some people, Gary
Food-health-agriculture connections noted at SARE conference
There was plenty of positive energy and discussion of the food and agriculture connection yesterday at the opening of the three-day Sustainable
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The weather’s fine for nonlocal foods
I've been thinking a lot lately about food — particularly local food — and weather, as the last week or so has given us Kansans temperatures in the teens and in the 60s, sunshine, rain, ice
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Sustainably raised (pastured) turkey worth effort to get
I thought a lot about local food last night as I made the 28-mile (roundtrip) journey to get the turkey I'll roast for my family's Christmas dinner. Does it make a lot of sense, I wondered, for one person
O, Christmas tree
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Pharmaceutical rice stirs little dust in Kansas
A frustrated Dan Nagengast, executive director of the Kansas Rural Center, said after a recent forum on pharmaceutical crops that opponents needed to take the
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State of local food not bad in this Plains city
Kei, a commenter on my blog, recently asked about what kind of produce is available these days in Kansas. A San Franciscan, she was surprised by the dearth
