Category Archives: Community Supported Agriculture

Costing Out Our Food

How much does it cost to grow the food we eat? Farmer Ben James answers this question, via The Atlantic.

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Buying Local Lamb

A while ago I wrote about Aaron Miller (above, photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman) and his grassfed beef, which I've found to be astonishingly succulent for 100% grassfed (it's all in how you treat the grass, he says; you are what you eat, even if you're a cow). We cooked his turkey at Thanksgiving.  He also raises excellent pigs. And now he's started a lamb program,  available by order from their site.  I cooked some for Jonathon Sawyer, chef at The Greenhouse Tavern, and he took one smell and said, "You can smell it's grass-fed!" Aaron and his wife Melissa are part of growing number of small farmers raising animals on grass. I'd love for more bloggers to post links to livestock farmers in their area raising animals for food, sustainably and well. If ...

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Prescott Frost Organic Beef Venture

Prescott Frost raises organic, grass-fed cattle in Nebraska. (Photo courtesy of Prescott Frost)

I love benevolent crazy people, people who just do things because they have to. Sometimes they make sense (Dickson Despommier and vertical farming). Sometimes they make no sense at all (making a farm and raising livestock in urban Oakland, which is what Novella Carpenter did—totally crazy, and she wrote a fabulous book about it called Farm City). I know benevolent insanity the moment I hear it and I heard it the moment I heard Prescott Frost's voice: “Every acre I can change from corn to grass, the better.  It’s the only way we’re going to change this train wreck that we have now,” he told me by phone last week.  He was calm and direct. “My mission is to change ...

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Pig Tour

Cochon 555, a pig celebration & cooking competition held across the USA to raise awareness of sustainable farming & heritage breed pigs, via Cochon 555.

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Video: Making Artisan Cider

Watch Julian Temperley, master-cider maker of the Somerset Distillery make cider and apple brandy in lovely Somerset, England; via Guardian UK.

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