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America’s most famous farmer puts America over his knee
Joel Salatin is horrified at how ignorant Americans are about what’s in their food and how it’s made. Photo: cheeseslave/flickr. Folks, This Ain’t Normal: A Farmer’s Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier...
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A solar flair
Let the sun do some of the work for you. Nietzsche said that we were all Hyperboreans. I’d say that if our culture were any more alienated from Nature, he’d have been better advised to call us all...
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Fruit pickin’
A well-earned, in-season harvest. Photo: Quilt salad via Flickr. The idea of eating locally and in-season just makes sense. Foods that grow locally are produced in the very same environment in which...
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A GMO is a GMO is a GMO
Image: David Dees Illustration. Quick: name the one issue about which Democrats, Republicans and even Independents all agree. No, not alpaca farms. Yes, I know everyone would like to have one, and...
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Soil, soul, and society
The farm store at Hawthorne Valley Farm On July 30, 2012, Hawthorne Valley Association marked the 40th anniversary of working the soil of agriculture on its land in the Hudson Valley of New York. In...
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Secrets of the trait
It’s not just bleeding heart lefties who oppose GMOs. The whole world is up in arms. Photo: RickSemple via Flickr Picture this: You’re an organic farmer in – well, pick a place. Your neighbor also...
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Sustainable farming mania is frustrating me
Photo: fireonthehill/Flickr. I’m certainly no farmer. I work at a computer all day. So it’s odd that the books that get me most jazzed up these days are not about the big problems of the day — the...
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Climate, food, and art
Get this poster as a download (no watermark) and help 500 of them be given away for FREE at the People’s Climate March by pledging $4 to 31 Days of Urban Agriculture. There’s less than 36 hours until...
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Soil erosion may get us before climate change does
Before centuries of irrigation and over-farming, much of the Middle East was once lush. Photo: Marc Veraart/Flickr . Outside the entrance of the glorious Hall of Western History are the marble lions,...
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Grapes of Wrath: Travails of a Produce Farmer in Wine Country
The world knows Sonoma County, California for its wineries. But small produce farmers there want to preserve the area’s other crops. Photo: Naotake Murayama/Flickr CC. Many good reasons exist, other...
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