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Paul Hawken: The High Cost of Cheap Food (video)

Paul Hawken: The High Cost of Cheap Food (video)

Paul Hawken eloquently explains how the price of food is divorced from its true costs, and what this really means for society.

Next Generation of Family Farmers— Part 2

Next Generation of Family Farmers— Part 2

Across the national landscape, family farmers have been for decades a declining breed. The national average age of farmers is 57, and climbing. Fertile land is diminishing. Purchasing affordable farmland for new farmers poses severe challenges. Listening to Michael Pollan, perhaps the closest this country has to a patron saint of food, during a recent [...]