Local Harvest … real food, real farmers, real community.
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Allan Nation’s passion for coupling healthy land management and profit was a monthly read the 8 years I managed our family ranch. Ranching that makes a profit 10 years out of 10 years is such a reasonable yet novel concept.
The Stockman Grass Farmer is a great resource. The articles are exceptional … […]
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Barbara Kingsolver in her recently released book, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life captures an alarming trend:
” 70% of all our midwestern agricultural land shifted gradually into single-crop corn or soybean farms, each one of them now, on average, the size of Manhattan. Owing to synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, genetic modification, and a […]
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Have you ever read a book and you were never quite the same again? Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference has been like that for me.
“The Tipping Point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips and spreads like wildfire.”
I […]
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Volunteering at the Pendleton Farmers’ Market this afternoon I looked up to see folks I hadn’t seen for 3+ years. Ten years ago we met when a mutual friend had invited us to join her along with 6 other parties to share a Villa in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico for a week. That […]
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Who doesn’t get excited about going to a “Farmers’ Market”? Fresh products, close to the land vendors, community connections, great stories! Last evening I put my foot back into the “Farmers’ Market” stream. Such vibrancy, such vitality … for vendors and customers alike!
Last year my viewpoint was as a vendor at the La Grande Farmers’ […]
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