Did you happen to see the article about local farmers in Sunday’s Sun Sentinel? Margie Pikarsky, Hani Khouri and Gabrielle Marewski, among others, were interviewed by Jaideep Hardikar, a journalist from Nagpur, a city in central India. His beat is rural India and agriculture. Jaideep is here in South Florida finishing up a six month [...]
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The farmers among us
Posted in farmer/grower, media, people, tagged Gabriele Marewski, Hani Khouri, Jaideep Hardikar, Margie Pikarsky on August 31, 2009 |
The hemp is high
Posted in farm, location, photo, tagged cover crop, sunn hemp on August 30, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Summertime And the livin’ is easy Fish are jumpin’ And the hemp is high (apologies to George Gershwin) Hold on, bucko! Before you go jump in the van to load up — it’s sunn hemp — the non-smoking variety. No, CSA members will not have to eat it, either (Farmer Margie does love to grow [...]
Fluffy chicken feet
Posted in farm, food, tagged chickens, eggs on August 26, 2009 |
These feet belong to a young hen which is most likely a cross between Auracana and Buff Cochin. The Auracana chickens have lovely tan feathers edged in black, and the Buff Cochin rooster gave her his feathery, fluffy feet. Most likely this young lady is laying blue and green eggs, another Auracana trait. If you’ve [...]
A Taste of Change
Posted in farm, farmer/grower, food, tagged Alexandra Duffy, ana Sofia joanes, Gabriele Marewski, joel Salatin, John Ikerd, Melissa Contreras, Michael Pollan, movie, Will Allen on August 25, 2009 |
Two films about food rolled into town last weekend. Both FRESH and Food, Inc. (which played all around town earlier this summer) cover the same ground of factory farming versus sustainable organic family farming. Both will hopefully make you think twice about what you eat and where it comes from. But the two films differ [...]
Food, Inc. screening
Posted in chef, farm, food, tagged ECOMB, Food Inc., Gabriele Marewski, movie, Paradise Farms on August 20, 2009 |
If you missed Food Inc. when it first came out, or you want to see it again, there are two screenings this weekend at the charming Miami Beach Cinematheque on South Beach. These screenings are part of the new Cinema GREEN environmental film series in collaboration with ECOMB (Environmental Coalition of Miami Beach). Friday, August [...]
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