Community Supported Agriculture
Posted in Rural Entrepreneurs, Farmers, Products, Markets, Trends, Food on May 20th, 2008 No Comments »
Local Harvest … real food, real farmers, real community.
Posted in Rural Entrepreneurs, Farmers, Products, Markets, Trends, Food on May 20th, 2008 No Comments »
Local Harvest … real food, real farmers, real community.
Posted in Rural Issues, Business, Farmers, Markets, Trends on Aug 16th, 2007 No Comments »
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 […]
Posted in Rural Entrepreneurs, Community Resources, Markets, Trends on Jul 17th, 2007 No Comments »
John Day, Oregon is a quintessential rural American community miles in any direction from a population center of any size. That didn’t keep Jennifer and Lance Barker from launching the SolWest Renewable Energy Fair in 1998.
In its 9th year now, this yearly 3-day event the last week-end in July has become the most comprehensive sustainable […]
Posted in Rural Entrepreneurs, Community Resources, Farmers, Products, Markets on May 12th, 2007 1 Comment »
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’ […]