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An “Unsettling” look at industrial agriculture

by Jennifer M. aka Baklava Queen @ Friday, March 7th, 2008.

The flaws of industrial agriculture and the current backlash against it came into sharp focus a couple of weeks ago, following the death of former Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz, well-known for his exhortations to farmers to "Get big or get out" and to plant from "fence row to fence row." Between the success […]

Digest - Announcements: Community food case studies wanted, water video contest

by Ethicurean @ Thursday, March 6th, 2008.

Grants, surveys, contest, etc.

The Eat Well Guide v2.0: Finding SOLE food on the road

by Guest @ Thursday, February 7th, 2008.

Since emerging as an independent program, the Eat Well team has been working feverishly to develop some new tools to make it easier for North Americans to find good food. Among the new developments, all of which should be on the internets in time for summer:

Winter on a New Hampshire farm

by Elanor @ Tuesday, January 8th, 2008.

There are some parts of the country where, between late November and sometime around February, you just can’t get anything to grow. Call it a lumen lack. During those bleak months, the sun’s weak, pasty arms don’t reach far enough up into the northern latitudes to get the plants the juice they need. I hail […]

2008 resolutions from the Ethicureans

by Bonnie P. @ Tuesday, January 1st, 2008.

Happy New Year to you all.

Straight-from-the-farm guerrilla dining in South Carolina

by Bonnie P. @ Thursday, December 20th, 2007.

Cool little video about an underground restaurant event in Charleston, SC, put on by Curious Fork/Furious Cork — "a place where the hungry, curious and adventurous gather to share, inspire or get inspired." And what inspires these hipster Southern chefs is just-picked produce from farmers they know. (Video is not embeddable; click screenshot to […]

37 hours left to help feed Lesotho kids — and win great prizes — through Menu for Hope IV

by Bonnie P. @ Thursday, December 20th, 2007.

Pim Techamuanvivit of Chez Pim is once again spearheading the epic online fund-raiser Menu for Hope to benefit the U.N. World Food Programme. In 2006 she raised over $62,000. This year’s donations — which just passed $55,000! — will be earmarked for the school lunch program in Lesotho.

Strange bedfellows: Why is Alice Waters involved with the Ameya Preserve in Montana?

by Charlotte @ Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007.

Alice Waters is everywhere right now, doing press for her new book, and the old argument over whether “Alice is an Elitist” is getting a fair amount of play – Adam at Amateur Gourmet thinks perhaps yes, while David Lebowitz (who worked at Chez Panisse for a long time) says no. Personally, I have no idea. But I do know that her name is being bandied about my Livingston, Montana, neighborhood these days in conjunction with a gated development of big, luxury second homes, and I am concerned.

Eating local, organic lunches every day at work — for $4

by Bonnie P. @ Thursday, September 20th, 2007.

Which Bay Area company with a young, hip-yet-geeky staff has made a point of serving local, organically grown food since 1997? Nope, not Google.

Digest - Farm and Rural: Dairy lobby saddles up, genetic monocultures, light pheasantries

by Guest @ Wednesday, September 19th, 2007.

A roundup of news about farming and rural areas.

Growing into a farmer

by Guest @ Friday, September 14th, 2007.

The day I became a farmer was not, as one might imagine, the cool April day I started work as an intern at Guidestone Farm in Colorado. Nor did I not think of myself as a farmer the day I learned how to milk a cow. Getting up before dawn to pick peas did not make me a farmer; neither did bucking fresh bales of hay until the stack reached above my head. Farming is hard work, but hard work alone does not make one a farmer.

Guest post: Keeping goats in Seattle

by Jenni P. @ Thursday, September 6th, 2007.

Still, Jennie did try, since you can’t keep farm animals on your Seattle lot unless it’s 20,000 square feet or larger —and who has nearly half an acre in the city?… A distant neighbor who had never seen the goats overheard her talking about them at a party —and turned her in. When the inspector told her she couldn’t keep her goats, Jennie approached city councilmember Richard Conlin and asked whether he could help her persuade the city’s Department of Planning and Development to allow her to keep the goats.

Putting up with friends

by Bonnie P. @ Tuesday, September 4th, 2007.

RSS readers might not display the flashy Pictobrowser slide show below, so click through if you want to see us do the can-can.

Yesterday was Labor Day, and Marc, Rachel, and I stocked up like locavorean squirrels for the winter. Well, that’s what I thought the plan was. But 8 hours, 50 pounds of tomatoes, 15 […]

Montreal farmshare weeks 3 & 4

by Peter aka Nosher of the North @ Sunday, July 22nd, 2007.

Peter talks about his CSA box.

My Montreal CSA box - baskets #1 & #2

by Peter aka Nosher of the North @ Sunday, July 8th, 2007.

Peter (aka Nosher of the North), the Montreal Ethicurean contributor, talks about his CSA boxes.

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