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Guest post: Talking to Growing for Market’s Lynn Byczynski about organic’s evolution
Bonnie here: I am really pleased to introduce Janet Majure, who's offered to guest post from Lawrence, Kansas. Janet is an editor and journalist who occasionally writes for the Kansas City Star; she had a weekly cooking column for almost 10 years and has written a couple of cookbooks. I've been enjoying
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Digest – Features: Meatpacking towns, Illinois goes local, Severson’s got soul food
What Big Meat giveth, Big Meat can taketh away : This remarkable piece by AP reporter Roxana Hegeman documents how, just as the arrival of the Santa Fe Railroad in 1872 brought white settlers to populate the dusty towns and farms of fledgling America, the relocation and consolidation of the meatpacking
Digest – Blogsnacks: Buying the farm, Nestle on pet food
Cotton' pickin' dreamer: Dan Owens has found a Louisiana cotton and rice farm for sale online, and is having a dandy time calculating the checks he could collect from the government just for sitting on the porch and drinking iced tea — if only he had $50 million. (The
Catching up: Washington State locavoreanism
The Butter Bitch and I have been on hiatus for the past few months, due to our day jobs and ongoing projects. The Seattle Times' Pacific Northwest Sunday Magazine devotes most of this week's issue to an overview of Washington's locavorean
Digest – Features & Blogsnacks: Joel Salatin offers seminars, Johanns talks
FEATURES Growing genius: BusinessWeek reporter and raw-milk-detective David Gumpert looks at "Omnivore's Dilemma" sustainable-farming poster guy Joel Salatin, whose Polyface Farm is leasing another 700 acres to keep up with demand. Hmm. Does Polyface's $700,000 annual revenues include those
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Events: Meet the folks behind the Eat Well Guide and The Meatrix!
Sustainable Table, the nonprofit responsible for the indispensable Eat Well Guide and the proud sponsor of the most
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Becasse chef Justin North sounds wake-up call for Australians
This is the third guest post from Melbourne writer Jillian Burt, who has two of her own blogs, Yamazaki's Notebook and the new Soul Food.
Brains for lunch
We were, in blog parlance, first "tagged" for the meme "Blogs That Make You Think" many moons ago by our friend Cookiecrumb, and then we got poked again
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Guest post: Report from Australia
I'm pleased to be able to share the following guest post from Jillian Burt, an Australian writer introduced to me via email by a friend. Jillian reports on technology, mythology, food, the arts and local business in a way that she thinks of as "warm hunting," considering how what's contemporary connects
In the belly of the food movement: Report from the 2007 Food and Society Conference
I spent most of last week in Traverse City, Michigan, at the Food and Society Conference sponsored by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. The foundation foots the astronomical bill for the whole thing, from rooms
Digest: FDA gets food safety czar, rural broadband $ misused, honeybee update
Note: The Digest is going to be published every other day for a bit until we figure out how to better balance our paid and unpaid commitments. NEWS Melamine crisis & FDA developments: That new czar smell: The FDA has appointed a new food safety czar — Dr. David Acheson, chief medical officer
Digest: Pet food problem overview, egg season, McGee on red meat
Painting the pet-food big picture: An excellent investigation into the Menu Foods pet food recall. Christie Keith nails the most important questions: "How did this problem ... get so out of hand? How come pet owners weren't informed more rapidly about the contaminated pet food? Why is it so hard to get
Adding SOLE to your pet’s diet
Man of La Muncha and I are currently "owned" by a small tortoiseshell cat, Ms. Teeth and Claws. Ms. Claws is our third cat; previous cats included a pretty black and white girl and a large Maine coon cat. We have loved all our cats, and have always fed them "good" pet foods, figuring that while they
Blog snacks: NYC’s green giant, Roman meal, chew-your-view dilemma
In between the Digest news deluge, we've been reading some good blog posts, too. For your delectation: No Impact Man: Writer Colin Beavan alerted us to his experiment forcing his New York City family to live for a year with
