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December 10, 2009

A Return to Real Food

We have become so disconnected from nature that we have forgotten what real food is. It is time to relearn how to live with the ...

November 30, 2009

Community Gardens: A Small Farmer on how the Government Can Help Rebuild the Infrastructure He Needs to Survive

Newsweek By Tom Philpott Five years ago, I gave up a career as a business writer in New York City to take over a small ...

November 19, 2009

Jim Goodman: Corporate Agribusiness Divides Farmers

The Capital Times Jim Goodman, farmer and Food and Society Fellows Program fellow Why is conventional agriculture so wound up? Are they afraid of organic ...

November 3, 2009

A Farewell Note from a Respected Ag Journalist…

As many of you are well aware the newspaper industry is in crisis. And agricultural journalism is no exception. A great number of reporters we ...

September 29, 2009

Minimize Antibiotics

Bangor Daily News By BDN Staff Although major food buyers, including national chain restaurants, have stopped buying meat from farms where antibiotics are routinely used ...

September 28, 2009

Tom Willey, of T&D Willey Farms, Testifies at Leafy Greens Hearing

TESTIMONY OF TOM WILLEY, OWNER, T & D WILLEY FARMS, Madera, California at the hearing on the proposed National Leafy Green Marketing Agreement, Monterey, California. ...

September 28, 2009

New Big Ag Push to Fight World Hunger Misses What Organic Ag Is Already Doing

Huffington Post Tim LaSalle CEO of the Rodale Institute. The compelling humanitarian goals expressed today at the corporately sponsored Global Harvest Initiative symposium were laudable, ...

September 11, 2009

Big Food vs. Big Insurance

New York Times Op-Ed Contributor By MICHAEL POLLAN Berkeley, Calif. — To listen to President Obama’s speech on Wednesday night, or to just about anyone ...

September 2, 2009

Why Small Farms Are Safer

The Atlantic by Josh Viertel In 2006 I was–among other things–a vegetable farmer. In New Haven, Connecticut, using Ivy League labor, we grew and sold ...

August 24, 2009

Food for the Soul

The New York Times Op-Ed Columnist, NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF YAMHILL, Ore. — On a summer visit back to the farm here where I grew up, ...

August 19, 2009

Do Seed Companies Control GM Crop Research?

Scientists must ask corporations for permission before publishing independent research on genetically modified crops. That restriction must end. Scientific American By The Editors Advances in ...

August 12, 2009

No More Bailouts for Factory Farms

lavidalocavore.org by: desmoinesdem If your widget factory produces too many widgets, you will be stuck with extra inventory, affecting your bottom line. In contrast, if ...