Posts Tagged ‘daniel klein’

Jubilant New Orleans Jazz Urban Agriculture Community (video)

New Orleans may not be known for its healthy food habits, but thats about to change.

Francis Thicke of Radiance Dairy (video)

Editor’s note: During the month of May 2011, Daniel Klein is “traveling from Minnesota to Louisiana to Portland to Florida and back again, once again creating weekly videos about Real Food”. This is his most recent dispatch from the road: As we set off on our Real Food Road Trip last Monday, we were excited [...]

The Unconventional Harvest: My Visit to an Amish Farm in New York

I began to ramble about why I was here: my quest for better knowledge about the American food system, and modern life that the self-sufficient Amish seem to offer an enviable alternative.

Foraging in the Wild For Food (video)

I just had the pleasure of spending a couple days in San Francisco. I went on a walk through one particular neighborhood and could have had lunch: fields of wild fennel, mustard greens, dandelion, nettles and a whole lot more spilled out onto the path. There is a lot of wild and delicious food sprouting [...]

Duskwind Farm: Where Cows, Donkeys, Sheep, and Guinea Fowl Live (video)

Warning: this video contains graphic images that may not be suitable for children, or the squeemish. Duskwind Farm is a very special place. A farm where chickens and cows, donkeys, sheep, guinea fowl and dogs live in blissful harmony: or at least that’s my memory of it. Mirra and I went to Duskwind (in the [...]

Star Prairie Trout Farm: Trout Chowder

Farm raised fish is a sensitive issue. It’s an area that is seen as a great hope for feeding the world as well as having potential for poisoning it. And which farm to buy fish from is often a choice between “bad, ok and better,” perhaps there is a “best” as well, I just don’t [...]

Spear Fishing In Minnesota

The activities available to Minnesotans during the course of our long winters are minimal: snow shoeing, cross country skiing, staying warm and of course ice fishing. This age old activity is often nothing more than an excuse to sit around and drink beer. Often the fishing process is so mechanized that you really don’t have [...]

Crop Mob

October 12, 2010 The name ‘crop mob‘ has been compared to the long ago community effort of barn raising: a group of people coming together to help a fellow farmer build a barn. Today, these volunteer hands meet up at a farm and pitch in to do whatever is needed. Barth Anderson, of Fair Food [...]