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See How One Family Raises 6,000 pounds of Food and 350 Veggie Varieties on One-Tenth of an Acre October 23rd, 2008
Check out this Green Screen Documentary
If you want to look at your garden and feel like an underachiever, check out the upcoming documentary, HomeGrown about the Dervaes family in Pasadena, CA. The Dervaeses run an organic farm and are able...more
The Future of Meat October 22nd, 2008
Goat Meat's Grand Introduction
When Bill Niman started Niman Ranch near San Francisco, CA, he had a few head of cattle and a determination to raise them self-sufficiently. The basic idea, is that the better a cow, or any...more
Green Dreams August 27th, 2008
New Yorkers Trade The Office For The Barn
A Harvard MBA, six-figure job as an investment banker, and TriBeCa apartment didn’t stop Torrey Reade, 56, from wanting to go back to basics, trading her city life for a 126-acre farm in southern New...more
Happy Animals, Happy Customers July 25th, 2008
One of NY's Finest Restauarants Grows It's Own Food -- Naturally
Here's the problem with all those cute, cuddly animals out there: sometimes they taste good. Not to worry, the livestock managers at Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture in the New York City suburbs...more
Greener Eating: Look for Grass-Fed Meat May 26th, 2008
Be A Compassionate Carnivore
The chickens at Kris Hirth’s Old Pine Farm in Manchester, MI spend their time strutting around the farm, happily ruffling their feathers and ignoring barn cats. Instead of being cooped up in a huge CAFO...more
Book Review: Trespassing May 8th, 2008
A Glimpse Into Life Near A Southeast Michigan CAFO
Recently, Wayne State University Press published “Trespassing: Dirt Stories and Field Notes” by Janet Kaufman, a professor of English at Eastern Michigan University. It’s a combination of short stories and essays inspired by Kaufman’s experience...more
The Whole Hog May 6th, 2008
More Pig News
The blog post about Pigs As Pesticides has gotten quite a response. So, in the spirit of Porky, Babe, Wilbur, here’s more news in the world of pigs. Handel’s Hog Heaven Pigs, it seems, are...more
A Delicate Balance January 28th, 2008
Notes from Boise
Working on a farm while growing up in rural South Carolina, rain was always the topic of the day. One farmer friend of mine was so superstitious about the rain that he believed my brother...more
