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Lively and relevant information on sustainable living from a variety of contributors.
Farmers v. Monsanto: An Army of Davids Take On Goliath
The future world’s food supplies may well be decided in America’s courts.
Farmer Don: Ode to a Small Family Farmer
January 8, 2012, Sherwood, Oregon. A packed crowd of friends and family gathered for the ceremony at the local Lutheran church where Don Wachlin (to us, Farmer Don) was to be buried in the small cemetery lot, a mere few hundred yards from the church his ancestors helped to build. We had come to know [...]
Mother Nature’s Own Weapons of Mass Destruction
Have scientists brought a dangerous flu virus closer to becoming a pandemic threat, a good thing?
The Unconventional Harvest: In the Farmers Own Words
I am excited to share the final sequences of my personal transformation and discovery of our nation’s food system and communities.
The Call of the Fresh Oregon Berry
Berry picking is something I’ve been doing since I moved to Oregon. There is something very special about the berries here. Like the grapes for pinot noir, berries like the weather here during the summer months – once it kicks in! Cool nights and hot days. Generally the strawberries come into their full sweetness in [...]
The Unconventional Harvest: Melstone, Montana—Population 136
In a land where people wore jeans, boots, and rancher hats all year round – I stuck out like a sore thumb. And I didn’t give a damn.
The Unconventional Harvest: A Large No-Till Organic Farm
I met Emily Stiegelmeier near Route 12 at the intersection of two long and lonely dirt roads near her 4,000 acre farm.