4.22.2008

Food Rationing Confronts Breadbasket of the World

A recent article in The New York Sun is like reading the writing on the wall. We have had many families come to us concerned about the future rationing of food. The world's shortage of wheat, rice and cooking oil is beginning to raise it's ugly head in America.

Like the Victory Garden of the old days we will need to rely more upon local food. Food that will not depend upon oil for distribution. City cousins need to mend the relationships with their country cousins now, while we are in the planting season. Don't wait for the harvest time, help support local food now.

4.10.2008

Show #4: The War On Bugs


Farmer Brad interviews Dr. Will Allen, author of The War On Bugs. Will is an organic farming visionary. A true activist, entrepreneur, and expert, he understands the complexities of farming first hand and the impact that commercialization has had... His new book is just released, The War On Bugs, "The secret history of pesticides revealed: how farmers and consumers have been conned by government, industry, and war-mongering jargon into choosing toxic food."

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3.31.2008

We left it all to be farmers

Reflecting on a recent article about young farmers in the New York Times, the folks at Barking Cat Farm in Rockwell County share this insight...

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3.27.2008

Greed In the Name Of Green

To Worshipers of Consumption: Spending Won't Save the Earth

Washington Post

Really going green means having less. It does mean less. Everyone is saying, 'You don't have to change your lifestyle.' Well, yes, actually, you do.

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