Cornucopia’s Take: Canadian dairy farmers operate under supply management, meaning farmers manage their production so it coincides with forecasts of demand for dairy. This ensures that there is no glut of milk on the market, which would drive prices down. Due to the enormous oversupply of milk in the U.S., driven by huge factory farm… Read more »
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Pin Oak Place
Pin Oak Place is an enterprise of young farmers Ellen and Daniel Walsh-Rosmann. The farm is located on Rosmann Family Farms just west of Harlan in Shelby County, Iowa. The Farm was started in 2011. They write: “Our mission is to provide high quality organically grown produce to consumers of Shelby county and the surrounding… Read more »
Pin Oaks Farms
Pin Oak Place is a new enterprise of young farmers Ellen and Daniel Walsh-Rosmann. The farm is located on Rosmann Family Farms just west of Harlan in Shelby County, Iowa. The Farm was started in 2011. Our mission is to provide high quality organically grown produce to consumers of Shelby county and the surrounding area,… Read more »
Organic: Food Justice for the 99%
Dr. Oz in Time Magazine Slandering Families Who Choose Safe, Organic Food for Their Children — Off-Base/Ill Advised As Americans become increasingly aware of the story behind conventional foods—the ecologically destructive monoculture fields, the petrochemical fertilizers, the toxic pesticides and dangerous fumigants—the agrochemical industry has launched an all-out media offensive against the booming organic industry…. Read more »
Kingbird Farm
Kingbird Farm is a model diverse organic family farm in upstate New York with a flock of 300 laying hens on rotated pasture. Their eggs are available year-round at Greenstar Cooperative Market in Ithaca, NY. They write: “We are a diverse small farm located just south of Ithaca New York. We offer a wide variety… Read more »
Village Farm
We offer our customers beef and chickens and eggs. We tend our animals with respect and gratitude. We believe that meat raised on our farm is the best you can find anywhere. We feed certified organic grain to our chickens and never give any animal hormones or antibiotics. The animals enjoy a “natural” life, doing… Read more »
Organic: The Real Natural
Organic The Real Natural Sponsored by OFARM (Organic Farmers’ Agency for Relationship Marketing) Larry Heitkamp, an organic farmer in Minnesota, sees his customers as partners in a grand plan to replenish the land and raise healthy families. “When you buy my organic eggs, you feed your family and heal the earth.” Organic farmers say, in… Read more »
What’s Up with Organics?
Cornucopia’s Take: John Ikerd is a policy advisor to The Cornucopia Institute and a leading figure in the sustainability revolution. The author of six books and a Professor Emeritus at the University of Missouri, he contends that soil is the “very foundation of authentic organic production.” JohnIkerd.com by John Ikerd John Ikerd How can crops… Read more »
Maine Blueberry Farmer Lures Tiny but Mighty Allies
An organic grower uses nest boxes and forage plants to attract wild bees to pollinate his crop. Portland Press Herald (ME) By Lynn Ascrizzi – freelance In the organic, wild blueberry fields at Twitchell Hill Farm in Montville, a rosy green blush of new growth has been emerging from underground stems since early spring. Now,… Read more »
The Cost of Organic
Burlington Free Press (link no longer available) By Terri Hallenbeck, Free Press Staff Writer NORTH HERO — Behind the lettuce, beans and zucchini that sit in bins at Amanda Gervais’s farmstand was a lot of planning and paperwork. Before the heads of broccoli and Swiss chard ever emerged from the ground, Gervais had to document their… Read more »
