Posts Tagged ‘agriculture’
Green Green Beans (video)
Follow along as we travel from the field to the factory to learn how some of the best and freshest green beans get picked, processed, and canned all within a few short hours of time. For those of you who have been following, I like to see how things are made, how they work. Take [...]
Fred Kirschenmann: The Future of Agriculture, part 2 (video)
Fred Kirschenmann, a leader in the sustainable food movement, completes his reflections upon the future of agriculture.
A City Looks Toward Defining Its Future
Damascus, Oregon (population: 10,000) ponders how to integrate existing urban agriculture into its future urban fabric. Damascus, Oregon is located about 20 miles southeast of Portland, incorporating the surrounding communities of Damascus and Carver to become a city in 2004. It occupies roughly 10,000 acres (16 miles); now designated inside the Portland Metropolitan urban growth [...]
A New Kind of Co-op: GROWN Locally
This Article From Our Friends at Local Harvest Nearly a decade ago, an idea was born in a field outside of Decorah, Iowa. After a field day at Sunflower Fields Farm, several farmers wondered if they could band together, coordinate their marketing efforts, and sell their products to local institutions under a single name. They [...]


