Posts Tagged ‘organic agriculture’

Farmer Jane: Women Changing the Way We Eat (video)

The main purpose of her book is to share stories about woman farmers, sustainable food activists, and others whose important efforts helped change our modern food system.

Nathan Winters Coming Soon to CUpS

During the summer of 2009, Nathan Winters spent 5 months pedaling across the country—4300 miles— to rediscover our food system. Along the way he interviewed farmers, activists, educators, food entrepreneurs, and others, to capture the rich flavors of those strongly connected to the land and to creating a sustainable future. As he applies the finishing [...]

Sustainable Food: Earthen Path Organic Farm (video)

Organic farmer Steven Schwen plows a different path through life; one built of a strong connection to the land, without many of the trappings of modern life.

Growing Interest in Farmers Market (video)

Farmers markets are growing robustly throughout the country.This farmer attests to that.

Genesis of the USDA’s National Organic Program

How the Federal Government came to regulate the organic industry Part 4: My previous column on the history of organic agriculture wrapped up with a look at the burgeoning national market that emerged during the 1980’s. Counterculture back-to-the-landers and die-hard traditionalist farmers were raising crops and livestock without agro-chemicals and growing numbers of consumers were [...]