An Interview with Former New York Times Food Columnist Mark Bittman
Faces & Visions of the Food Movement: Mark Bittman (Excerpt of the Article/Interview by Jen Dalton from Civil Eats – Click title to read it in its entirety) A week [...]
Sustainability
Research Results: No-Till Summer Fallow Stores Water
No-Till, Summer Fallow Stores Water in Central Great Plains (By Don Comis, USDA-ARS) Storing just one inch of water in an acre of soil is worth $25 to $30 per acre. That gets [...]
Fantastic Free Food and Farming Films
Chris Bedford is an accomplished filmmaker, writer, and activist with a keen interest in food systems local economies, and a terrific knack for telling a story. He has [...]
Farm Succession Planning Resources
This post is a prelude to a new Succession Planning Page on Beginning Farmers. Succession planning is essential to the process of passing a farm on to the next generation [...]
The Need for Young Farmers – Making the Case
Fresh faces in aging ag (by David Hendee – Omaha World Herald) EXCERPT: Farmers and ranchers under age 35 are a rare species across the country, and the decline in the [...]
Job: Mentor Farmer – Duke University Campus Farm, NC
The Duke Campus Farm is a brand new initiative at Duke University, currently in the initial stages of its one-year, one-acre pilot project. In the fall, the land was tilled, [...]
Community Food Security Coalition Food Policy Conference
Join the Community Food Security Coalition for Food Policy from Neighborhood to Nation May 19 – 21, 2011 – Doubletree Hotel – Portland, OR About the [...]
USDA Assistance for Local Farmers
USDA Programs Are Available to Assist Local Farm Owners (From the USDA Blog; Posted by Darin Leach, USDA Rural Development Iowa Public Information Officer) EXCERPT: Recent [...]
Roots of Change Has a New Website
By tracym From ATTRA – National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service Roots of Change (ROC) has announced the launch of a new website [...]
Ecological Crisis, Man Made Problems & Hope from Growing Food
Growing your own food may not save the planet – but do it anyway! …because “our revolution will have dancing and excellent food” (by John M. Gerber) [...]
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