Posts Tagged ‘sustainable agriculture’

Diary of a Young Farmer: April’s Cash Crop

As a young farmer experiences the springtime cash flow crisis, the USDA offers no direct financial help, a catch-22 situation impossible for new family farmers

Truitt Brothers: Preserving the Bounty in the Modern Age

By Ellen Jackson; Photo by David Loveall This article reprinted courtesy of Edible Portland Magazine Related Video Story: Green Green Beans As a cook, I have an uneasy relationship with canned foods. Other than the small, silver foil-wrapped tins of LeSueur Early Peas, for which I’ll admit a three-year-old’s fondness, not much of what I [...]

Whiskey We’ve Got, But Where’s the Meat?

This article reprinted courtesy of Global Voices Venezuela is one of the principal oil-exporting countries of the world. However, petroleum is not edible and, lamentably, Venezuela’s national food industry is not able to feed its population. So Venezuela is, since its economy stopped having an agricultural focus at the beginning of the 20th century, a [...]

A Conversation With Dan Imhoff-Part 4: Shifting Winds

Cooking Up a Story: Food News Furthering the conversation, Dan Imhoff explains how there are cracks appearing in the alliance. A number of opposing interest groups may be coming together to push the Farm Bill toward rewarding better farming practices: encouraging farmers to grow nutritious foods, and employ farming methods that preserve the land for [...]

A Conversation With Dan Imhoff-Part 2: Historical Roots and Evolution of the Farm Bill

The Farm Bill comes up for renewal every 5 to 7 years. But upon passage, that is just the beginning of a yearly battle for allocation of those funds. Part 2 reveals the surprising truth about what the Farm Bill really offers, and how it has evolved from its original purpose. For more information

A Conversation with Dan Imhoff: An Introduction to the Farm Bill-Part 1

In part 1, Daniel Imhoff explains the historical roots of the federal Farm Bill, arguably the single, biggest piece of legislation that effects land use in the U.S., and as he himself notes, most average citizens know little about this important bill. The current farm bill is a 90 billion dollar federal program that supports [...]

The Vision: A Sustainable Restaurant (video)

Creating a restaurant from the ground up is an ambitious endeavor in itself. To base the theme of such a restaurant around locally produced food, good land stewardship, and preserving social tastes is even more grand. Stu Stein, owner of Terroir (pronounced, tεʀwaʀ, in French) shares his philosophy and vision. I was having coffee not [...]

Old Fashioned Green Beans and Bacon

Ingredients 3 14.5 ounce cans of green beans 4-5 slices bacon 3 medium sized potatoes, pared, cut into ½” pieces 1/3 cup bean liquid (add water, if necessary) dash salt one-quarter large onion, sliced Instructions Drain beans, reserve liquid, fry bacon until crisp. Add potatoes, green beans, and remaining ingredients to bacon and fat. Cook [...]