archive for the 'Farming' Category

Ode to podcasts: Down on the farm at 38,000 feet

by Elanor @ Thursday, May 8th, 2008.

I have an embarrassing confession: I am terrified of flying. I’ve tried everything I can think of to get over it (deep breathing, Dramamine, and even, yes, a self-help book called “Fly Without Fear”), yet I still end up locking the armrest in a death grip on every flight. It was after my last trip, […]

Digest - Features: Pollan preaches it, NYT Mag’s Eat Green, Londoners growing food

by Ethicurean @ Monday, April 21st, 2008.

In-depth, offbeat, or thought-provoking features about aspects of SOLE food, from eating locally to raising grassfed beef to food preservation.

Digest - Commentary: Monbiot on veganism, Philpott on the middle, Moonies on Borlaug

by Ethicurean @ Monday, April 21st, 2008.

Editorials and op-eds about sustainable agriculture (or its opposite) from newspapers and websites big and small.

Getting down to Brassica tacks: A recipe for roasted cauliflower salad

by Marc R. aka Mental Masala @ Tuesday, April 8th, 2008.

I’ve always been tickled by the pairing of decadence and duty at the Swanton Berry Farm stand at the Berkeley farmers market: sweet, fragrant, addictive strawberries sharing the table with fibrous, disrespected, and most-likely-not-addictive broccoli, cauliflower, and brussels sprouts. It turns out that this collection makes a lot of agricultural sense, as strawberries are […]

Digest - Features: Everybody (hearts) young farmers, meat graders, and organic charts

by Ethicurean @ Monday, March 17th, 2008.

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

by Ethicurean @ Monday, March 17th, 2008.

Posts by bloggers at both personal and nonprofit sites that you won’t want to miss.

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 […]

Thinking about carbon “foodprints”

by Marc R. aka Mental Masala @ Sunday, March 2nd, 2008.

The February 25 issue of The New Yorker has an important article by staff writer Michael Specter about some of the economic, logistical, and moral issues related to our individual contributions to the climate crisis* (our "carbon footprints"). In his exploration of the topic, he covers product labeling for food miles, carbon emissions, offset programs, […]

Garage-top garden

by Jenni P. @ Sunday, February 17th, 2008.

Witchhazel is blooming at my house, a sign that spring is nearly here. I’m planning my garden, which will be my second one ever, if it comes to fruition.
I started my first garden by reading piles of books. I spent the winter lingering over every kitchen garden book Amazon had to offer, littering my […]

Back to the future: Maryland’s Springfield Farm is new old-school

by Guest @ Saturday, February 16th, 2008.

The family of Springfield Farm, whose ancestors first settled the land in the 1600s, wowed me with the contemporary food network they’ve helped build.

The weather’s fine for nonlocal foods

by Janet @ Monday, January 14th, 2008.

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 and snow.
Local is the big word in food trends these days, and for good reason. Our food system has […]

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 […]

Digest - Features: Hugh F-W and Jamie Oliver to set feathers flying, grass-fed beef ranchers in unlikely places

by Ethicurean @ Sunday, December 30th, 2007.

In-depth, offbeat, or thought-provoking features about aspects of SOLE food, from eating locally to farms marketing to methods of food preservation.

O, Christmas tree

by Janet @ Thursday, December 20th, 2007.

Not exactly a food topic, but if you’re still deliberating about a Christmas tree (real tree? artificial tree? no tree? see what Grist’s Umbra had to say), here are two ideas that are easier than buying a live one that you have to try to plant somewhere:
My choice, an idea borrowed from a friend: a […]

Flood assistance for Washington farmers

by Jenni P. @ Tuesday, December 11th, 2007.

Dairy cows were among the victims of Washington’s floods. Photo by Mike Kane for the Seattle P-I.

Washington and Oregon suffered disastrous rain and wind for days starting on December 1, and farms in southwest Washington were hit particularly hard. Some dairies dumped their milk when a 20-mile section of I-5 closed and the milk couldn’t […]

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