Archive for the ‘sustainable agriculture’ 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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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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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Judith Evans made a brief, but nice, blog post about the Chef's Garden event held over the weekend on her Recipe Exchange blog on stltoday.com.
If you don't know, Chef's Garden, utilizing a term coined by Joel Salatin, is a Beyond Organic purveyor of Micro Greens, Micro Herbs, and Specialty ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
I think we local St. Louis Food Bloggers forgot to point you to this brief New York times interview with Michael Pollan.
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
Does this make any kind of sense?
...consumers who would like to be able to buy local fruits and vegetables not just at farmers’ markets, but also in the produce aisle of their supermarket, will be dismayed to learn that the federal government works deliberately and forcefully to prevent the ...
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Monday, February 11th, 2008
Of all places, the 20th Anniversary New American Farm conference is taking place March 25-27th in Kansas City, MO.
Put on by the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program , the "conference is open to farmers, ranchers, teachers, researchers, students, advocates – or simply curious consumers...who want to learn more about ...
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Monday, February 11th, 2008
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I've mentioned this farm before, but I thawed out a sirloin tip roast I've had in my freezer over the past couple days, and I just wanted to comment about them again because the meat is a bit cheaper than many of the other spots people are buying "happy meat" ...
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