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Carlo Petrini: Give Value To Food 5 (Video)

April 26, 2010 by Cooking Up a Story

Slow Food founder Carlo Petrini asks if we have lost our sense of the value of food, and even worse, the U.S. is promoting the wrong type of foods.

Raised On Grass: Pastured Fed Animals (video)

March 15, 2010 by Cooking Up a Story

Raised On Grass: Pastured Fed Animals (video)

New to the life of farming, a middle-aged couple make a career change. First mentoring under Joel Salatin, they raise pasture fed cows, pigs, chickens, ducks, lambs, and sheep.

Meet a Farmer: Joya Parsons, Chicken Farmer

March 6, 2010 by Rebecca Gerendasy

Meet a Farmer-Joya Parsons-Chicken Farmer

March 07, 2010 Exposed to her parents interest in horticulture as a young child, Joya Parsons grew to embrace her green thumb. “By the time I reached my early twenties, I was bitten by the horticulture bug.” Her interest in growing things was played out on the land her parents went on to buy in […]

An Iowa Farmer on the Meaning of Sustainability

February 20, 2010 by Rebecca Gerendasy

February 20, 2010 Denise O’Brien has begun a new series on the Blog for Iowa website about sustainable agriculture. O’Brien (co-founder of Women, Food & Agriculture Network) and her husband Larry Harris have been growing organic produce for over 30 years and sell through their Rolling Acres CSA. She will be discussing the different issues […]

Farmers, conservation groups join to preserve farmland near Portland’s suburbs

January 27, 2010 by Rebecca Gerendasy

January 27, 2010 As the time for public comments draw to a close, a look at a local hazelnut orchard and tree farm in Clackamas County – one of the counties in the Portland metro area deciding where to place urban and rural Reserves for future populations and possible development. Peter McDonald is concerned farms […]

For Cave Women, Farmers Had Extra Sex Appeal

January 27, 2010 by Rebecca Gerendasy

January 27, 2010 It wasn’t just the big stone axes they were wielding, it was the ability to cultivate food themselves that was attractive to hunter-gathering women 10k+ years ago. Apparently the farming tools were not just practical and handy, but “revolutionary”. “It was the foundation of modern civilization and so there’s a big scientific […]

How Cows (Grass-Fed Only) Could Save the Planet

January 22, 2010 by Rebecca Gerendasy

January 22, 2010 Raising grass-fed cattle to save the planet – Eliot Coleman and Barbara Damrosch are building a barn and plan on adding livestock to their Four Season Farm…because they care. “Once he[Coleman] and Damrosch have brought in their livestock, they’ll “be able to use the manure to feed the plants, and the plant […]

Coalition of Farming, Conservation Groups Provide Alternative Vision for Region’s Growth

January 12, 2010 by Rebecca Gerendasy

January 12, 2010 At a press conference held yesterday in Portland, OR, several conservation and farming organizations came together and provided a map reflecting what they thought would be a acceptable outcome for the urban and rural reserves, which is currently under review and being determined by Metro and Washington, Clackamas, and Multnomah counties. Go […]

Getting local foods to local tables: Part III, a farmer’s perspective

January 11, 2010 by Rebecca Gerendasy

January 11, 2010 After all the planning, planting, and harvesting, how does a farmer get all that food distributed locally? “Even with bizarre weather patterns and climate change, even with the seemingly random challenges every natural system throws in one’s way, connecting the food they produce with the people who want to eat that food […]

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