Back again to the Small Farms Conference. (Nope, I’m not done blogging about it.) The keynote speaker was Dr. John Ikerd, author and Professor Emeritus of Agricultural Economics from the University of Missouri, whose speech was Small Farms in the Year 2050. (An earlier version is on his web site.) According to the conference bio, [...]
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Small Farms in the Year 2050
Posted in csa, farm, farmer/grower, food, people, politics, tagged Alice Waters, csa, John Ikerd, Redland Organics, small farms conference, sustainable agriculture on September 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
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