Tag Archives: sustainability

We Are Fortunate

February 3, 2010 – 10:17 am

Every week or so I receive an email newsletter from my CSA. I look forward to reading it; it’s always a well-written, thoughtful take on sustainable agriculture in action, and it helps me understand the reality of life on the farm when I know the farmer doing what it is that he does. This week, [...]

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Forty Farmers Under Forty

July 22, 2009 – 11:27 am

This morning Dan sent me a great link to a story on MNN about forty idealistic, young American farmers bringing sustainable agriculture back into the mainstream. It’s a great piece, loaded with fascinating stories about how these individuals got started in farming, and how they’re faring now, as the local foods movement picks up speed. [...]

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When Genius Strikes

April 30, 2008 – 8:02 am

One thing I think that would be — I know would be very creative policy is if we — is if we would buy food from local farmers as a way to help deal with scarcity, but also as a way to put in place an infrastructure so that nations can be self-sustaining and self-supporting. [...]

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