February 2012
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France Seeks to Cut Pesticide Use in Half →
Over in France, a farmer has successfully sued Monsanto for pesticide poisoning. The farmer claims he suffered a raft of neurological troubles after inhaling the agrochemical giant’s Lasso herbicide while cleaning his sprayer in 2004. The court’s ruling against Monsanto “could lend weight to other health claims against pesticides,” according to Reuters.
All very interesting, but what caught...
localme asked: Thanks for the encouragement!! Any gardening tips?
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Wisconsin Farm to School Program
My wife recently attended a conference on the Wisconsin Farm to School foods program. Wisconsin is actively supporting small, local farmers by encouraging school food service departments to purchase produce, meat and other food products from local farmers.
Schools are not only being encouraged to buy food locally whenever possible, but to actually get their students engaged with farming, bringing...
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January 2012
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AgriThoughts: Shock Treatment for E Coli →
This could be a very important discovery, and additional study is important. Unfortunately, it only seems to ‘deactivate’ e.coli that is on the surface of the meat, so it is likely it probably wouldn’t work on ground forms of meat like hamburger. But it has a lot of potential. It’s cheap, probably easy to implement on a large scale, and won’t scare consumers the way...
fallingtofly-deactivated2012011 asked: Any plans for the barn? I imagine it would be an awesome place to have an aquaponics setup.
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If you post about sustainable agriculture,...
Sure. :)
December 2011
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John Thackara: From Milk to Superfoods: Supping... →
astudyinmovement:
So much to quote in this so instead, read the whole thing.
I don’t usually reblog things I find in Tumblr, but I had to do this one. In the past 50 years, I have seen so many Wisconsin farmers and supporting businesses driven into oblivion by industrial scale farms that it is mind boggling. The author of the article discusses the same thing happening in other...
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katiainmissoula asked: Mind if I ask where your farm is located? I saw a few South Dakota posts but I'm not sure if that's where you live! We could be neighbors!
November 2011
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I wonder....
Now that Thanksgiving is over and the annual insanity called Black Friday is well under way, questions have been popping up as I sit here reading the morning news and going through the Tumblr blogs I follow.
How many people, I wonder, had a turkey that was not injected with brine, broth (basically chicken flavored salt water), fed a diet that contained low levels of antibiotics all its life, ate...
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October 2011
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Farm to School Month
October is “Farm to School” month. It is intended to promote local foods, and especially an attempt to partner farmers and school food service departments. Unlike a lot of promotional programs people come up with, this one that I hope will become very successful.
The two main purposes behind the program are to increase the quality of food being served to our children at their schools...
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September 2011
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Rocks
Back in the ‘good old days’, our first harvest of the spring season was an unproductive one: rock. After letting the plowed fields lay undisturbed over the winter, we’d be out on the land as soon as it had dried to prep it for whatever was going to be planted that year. After going over the fields with the spring tooth a couple of times, we had to pick stones before we could...
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