Tag Archives: farming

Bittman On What To Be Thankful For

By emilia | Published: November 21, 2011

Excellent nytimes op-ed piece by Mark Bittman, who shares many reasons to be grateful, "signs of hope" in the food movement.

Posted in Article, Farming, Food Culture, Food Politics, Writing | Also tagged community action, food politics, local farms, Mark Bittman, new york times | Comments closed

Prescott Frost Organic Beef Venture

By Michael Ruhlman | Published: August 31, 2011

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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Posted in Beef, Business, Community Supported Agriculture, Farming, Food Politics | Also tagged agriculture, grass fed, Opensky, organic beef, Prescott Frost Organic Beef | Comments closed

Moo-ving Force

By emilia | Published: May 9, 2011

Diesel is getting expensive & small farms are returning to draft power. Oxen, cattle, donkeys are back in action on farms, via NYT.

Posted in Article, Farming, Food Politics | Also tagged cattle, fuel, new york times, oxen, small farms | Comments closed

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