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Urban farmers confront zoning regulations in, around Kansas City
Plowing up zoning restrictions: As urban farming grows, so do conflicts between city zoning laws and farmers. The Kansas City, Mo., City Council is looking to ease some restrictions, while other cities in the area stand firm. The issues — involving where these farmers can farm and sell produce, as well as all manner of livestock questions — tend
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Kansas Senate leaves rBST milk labels on ag committee floor
No crying over milk labeling: The Kansas Senate apparently won't even attempt to override former Gov. Kathleen Sebelius's veto of legislation (as described in the Lawrence Journal-World) bearing
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CSA to deliver education along with produce
God willing and the creek don't rise, I'll be picking up my first CSA delivery of the year in late April. When I do, it will be the 16th consecutive spring that the Rolling Prairie farmers have unloaded their goods and distributed them to subscribers in Lawrence, Kansas. Those facts — the 16th year
Digest – News: Mega-McDonald’s, bathing moo-ties, and CA Senate embraces food
No budget, but an awesome mandate: The California state Senate reforms its agriculture committee - traditionally a buddy of the state's industrial produce contingent - to prioritize issues such as sustainable agriculture, food safety, animal welfare, and food security. Berkeley/Oakland Senator Loni Hancock
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Digest – News: Ritchie for AgSec, Kansas kraziness, FDA pats itself on back
The best and the brightest: Foodie luminaries, among them Michael Pollan and Alice Waters, send a letter to Obama calling for a Secretary of Ag who will deliver on sustainability. Mark Ritchie makes the list (yeah!). (NYT
Sweet potatoes provide Kansans multiple culinary possibilities and new crop potential
One Kansas City-area program had lots of sweet potato plants, while another had people who know how to cook sweet-potato greens. The two got together recently and showed off the culinary possibilities to a gathering of people
Foxes guarding the hen house, or how politics trumps qualifications at DHS
Did you hear the one about how our great, politically appointed bureaucrats bypassed better-qualified locations for the planned National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility in favor of one with more
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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 food. It doesn't have to be that way. What's more, a turnaround in that situation is a good economic development plan. That was the message that two sustainable
Local meat gets star treatment at Kansas farmers market
Kansas may be the beef capital (PDF) of the United States, but people here aren't necessarily eating beef from the neighborhood. To introduce
Gary Nabhan wants you to go native for SOLE food
Could native foods be the next big thing in eating? Some people, Gary Nabhan in particular, are working to push things in that direction. Nabhan, a noted conservation scientist at the
Bread rises, and not just from yeast
Around the world there’s growing talk about food crisis as
Kansas Legislature joins list of those who prefer consumers stay ignorant
Members of the Kansas Legislature have joined the esteemed lawmakers or regulators in Pennsylvania, Indiana
Local Burger on a mission to serve up fast, healthy, local food
In her two years in business, Hilary Brown has gotten more publicity for her Local Burger restaurant in Lawrence,
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 (me) to use over a gallon of gas to pick up one turkey? I have to conclude that it probably does
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 fight somewhere else. Some 35 to 40 people attended the forum in Topeka on Nov. 14, which provided
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