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Designed to Fail: Why Regulatory Agencies Don’t Work
May 1, 2012 08:05 -
Documenting the Urban Farming Boom
April 30, 2012 07:04 -
Mo Rocca Learns to Cook from our Elders: My Grandmother’s Ravioli
February 19, 2012 08:02 -
Occupy Wall Street: the Conscience of the Nation
December 19, 2011 04:12 -
Willie Nelson’s Long Time Bassist—Dan “Bee” Spears Dies
December 14, 2011 09:12 -
Barn Raising and Community Support Celebrated at Pete’s Greens
December 7, 2011 09:12 -
Building Worker Power for a Just and Sustainable Food System
December 4, 2011 13:12
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Oregon Food Bank: Hunger & Food Insecurity In Epic Proportions (video)
May 25, 2012 04:05 -
Rethinking the Problem of Food Waste (video)
May 24, 2012 04:05 -
Urban Gleaners: Reducing Food Waste to Reduce Hunger (video)
May 23, 2012 04:05 -
How to Make Savory Bread Pudding with Chard and Carrots (video)
May 22, 2012 04:05 -
Homemade Living: Home Dairy Review
May 18, 2012 04:05 -
One Farmers Perspective on the Raw Milk Debate (video)
May 17, 2012 04:05 -
A Small Scale Integrated Livestock Farmer (video)
May 16, 2012 04:05
Posts Tagged ‘pasture fed animals’
Tom Trantham-Twelve Aprils Grazing Program Coming Soon
July 2, 2010; Pelzer, South Carolina. In 1989, dairy farmer, Tom Trantham, was facing almost certain financial collapse on his conventional, 92 cow dairy farm operation. With the costs of animal feed skyrocketing, many farmers were turning to BST to increase milk production, a hormone purported at the time of being safe, and as the [...]
Joel Salatin Polyface Farm
There is probably no one left in the food and farming community who hasn’t heard the name Polyface, the Shenandoah Valley super-farm famous for its lush pastures, happy animals and natural husbandry overseen by self described “lunatic farmer” Joel Salatin. The farm has been featured in books and films, including Food, Inc. and Michael Pollan’s [...]
Raised On Grass: Pastured Fed Animals (video)
New to the life of farming, a middle-aged couple make a career change to becoming sustainable farmers. First mentoring under Joel Salatin, they now raise pasture fed cows, pigs, chickens, ducks, lambs, and sheep. I started to really think about the food the animals I ate were fed, after I saw “King Corn” and talked [...]
Organic Livestock Recieve Emancipation Proclamation from USDA
February 15, 2010 On Friday, February 12, the USDA issued its final ruling for Access to Pasture organic certification requirements for all organic livestock producers. The National Organic Program (NOP) began in October of 2002, and up until the present was designed to ensure that pasture and ruminant animals received adequate access to pasture grass, [...]
My Journey to a more Sustainable Food Lifestyle-Part 5
Weaning my 3 year old off of hot dogs…there must be a local, organic beef hot dog somewhere I have a real love hate relationship with the state of New Jersey. I love living a short 20 minute drive away from the Atlantic Ocean but I hate that I live so far south that I [...]