Archive for the ‘farming’ Category
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
As I catch back up on my life post Art of Food I've been sifting through RSS feeds and, in reading a post from the Supermarket News blog Refresh about two nutritional studies pitting Organic against Conventional produce, something occurred to me: Why is it that conventional produce is the ...
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
From an interview with Michael Pollan about What's Wrong with Environmentalism in Yale's online magazine e360.
I don't see myself as a writer of food and the environment. I see myself as a kind of nature writer who likes writing about the messy places where the human world and the natural ...
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
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As previously mentioned, the coolest market happening last week was that Farrar Out Farm is now a regular vendor at Maplewood. I, at least, am glad to have them. I've known the name for years but rarely have the opportunity to get over to Kirkwood ...
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Friday, June 13th, 2008
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Because it's just too exciting to hold onto until next week, the big market news this week will surely be that Farrar Out Farm is now at Maplewood Farmers' Market. A lot of fingers can be uncrossed now.
I spoke to owners Bryan and Christina Truemper briefly about how things ...
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Monday, June 9th, 2008
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practically duplicating my slowfoodstl.org post...
It was a long day of oppressive heat and ferocious winds that have left me too drained to really comment at the moment, but in the end the food was great, the hospitality was incredible, and we all walked away convinced that the Hillebrand's live on ...
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
Backyard chicken farming being the urban-chic backyard accessory that it has become, there's been a lot of talk about it recently in the news. And while sure most of these city-farmers are simply vying for eggs while kicking it old school, there is a small segment of backyard-butchers taking ...
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Sure we avoided the late frosts of last year, but this year we're plagued by something new: rain. We're witnessing it right now with the strawberry picking delays, and according to this Missourian article, it means bad things for the corn crop ahead as it could "threaten the ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
Rumor has it that the Hillebrands have raised one grass-finished head of cattle which they will be selling this Saturday at Clayton Farmers' Market. Rumor also has it that they might be getting into beef next year which raises the question: will they only sell it at Clayton so as ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
Having spotted a commercial for Eckert's last night I went to check out their website and noticed they now have a blog and and on it the news that the strawberries hit for them last weekend. Pick-your-own will be happening there again this Saturday.
Also, for the less farm savvy simply ...
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Recently there was an article in Vanity Fair about Monsanto. It was, I think, a good article and one that strikes fairly close to home as I work about one half mile down the road from the Monsanto location discussed in the article. It is the same facility ...
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