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Joel Salatin: How food can restore America’s integrity

By Staff Reports | May 1, 2015

Joel Salatin

Joel Salatin originally published this article in the spring 2015 Polyface Farms newsletter. We run the piece here with Joel's permission. -- Ed. While I was in Australia in February, imported Chinese raspberries carrying Hepatitis A (from human sewage) hospitalized a dozen people and heightened interest in my seminars to a fever pitch. The news media and individuals fell … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food, Transition Tagged With: food-borne illness, Joel Salatin, local food

Transition to a world made by hand

By Lindsay Curren | August 4, 2014

Peak oil commentator of Archdruid fame John Michael Greer, who foresees an inevitable if gradual collapse for industrial society, advises the equally doomstruck to "collapse now and avoid the rush." It's good advice and I've taken it to heart. Transition girl About six years ago I moved to the small (but widely-hailed) city of Staunton, Virginia. Shortly afterwards, I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Transition Tagged With: food, gardening, Joel Salatin, local economy, local food, relocalization

We must be the change

By Staff Reports | July 3, 2013

chopping competition

As I observe people around me, I’ve been noticing a trend – most everybody, in theory -- wants to save the Earth.   The problem, however, is that far too few people are willing to make the lifestyle changes necessary to ensure a livable future. Comforts and conveniences The appeal of constant financial progress, of fast food and perfectly temperature-controlled rooms is too … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Transition Tagged With: community, gardening, GMOs, local food

Is it organic?

By Sherry Ackerman | June 12, 2013

USDA organic sign

  Making healthy food choices is important. But, sometimes it’s really tough to be sure that you are getting what you intended to get. Let’s say, for example, that you have made a decision to eat primarily organic foods. Well, how do you know it’s organic? The obvious answer is that it is labeled by the USDA, whose National Organic Program regulates the standards for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food Tagged With: local food, USDA Organic

Convinced that food can save America

By Erik Curren | May 6, 2013

Student drinking yogurt

It's hard to overestimate the importance of food. Yet, sometimes it appears just as hard for food writers to avoid hype. It's all too easy for people who love food enough to write about food to lose themselves in breathless raptures over the deliciousness of forest foraged mushrooms or the power of artisanal pork to cure diabetes, resurrect rural economies and provide … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: David Gumpert, food policy, Joel Salatin, local food, Weston A. Price

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