farming
-
Protein: We only serve white meat here [Excerpt]
In this excerpt from his latest book, "Folks, This Ain't Normal," Polyface farmer Joel Salatin discusses the mismatch between today’s fast food industry and the local food system.
-
Even Fox News likes this anti-factory-farm ad
This adorable/emotional Chipotle ad, featuring Willie Nelson justifying Coldplay's existence, has stolen the heart of ... Fox News.
-
Critical List: Trader Joe’s signs Fair Food agreement; newborn baby tapir
Trader Joe’s signed a Fair Food agreement with Coalition of Immokalee Workers that increased the price the company pays per pound of tomatoes. Energy Secretary Steven Chu defended the Energy Department’s loan guarantee program, after a independent review outlined possible improvements to the program’s oversight. The White House is pointing out that the review showed […]
-
Farmers advance in their suit against Monsanto
In one corner you have the biotech seed giant, in the other you have 83 non-GMO seed producers, farmers, and agricultural organizations who want Monsanto to stop suing and threatening them.
-
Farm Bill update: Fewer secrets, more hard work
The Secret Farm Bill process is long over and the Senate Ag Committee has scheduled its first round of Farm Bill hearings. So where should the sustainable food community put its attention now?
-
Sh*t happens: Mysterious ‘manure foam’ causes pig farms to explode
Several concentrated animal feeding operations in Minnesota and Iowa have already exploded, causing major damage and the deaths of thousands of pigs.
-
New Agtivist: Adam Berman, faith-based urban farmer
Meet the founder of Urban Adamah, a one-acre urban farm in Berkeley and a fellowship for young people that integrates organic farming, social justice, and progressive Jewish spiritual practice.
-
No, that’s not snow: Pesticides coat California’s Central Valley
Take a photo journey through America's fruit basket, where excess nitrates and pesticides contaminate drinking water and showering with tap water can lead to rashes.
-
Cacti can clean up poisonous soils
Here are a few things you do with a prickly pear cactus: Get poked. Turn its fruit into jam. Use it to clean up dangerous concentrations of selenium in arid California lands. In California’s San Joaquin Valley, a long history of artificial irrigation has impregnated the soil with selenium. In small quantities, selenium is beneficial […]