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Beet me up: Six summery ways to enjoy the sweetest root vegetable 29 May 2012 | 05:51 am
I peek under our hoop house garden bed to check the progress of the hundred beets we planted early in the winter. The greens look healthy and strong. For two months I have resisted the urge to harvest...
Beet me up: Six summery ways to enjoy the sweetest root vegetable 29 May 2012 | 01:51 am
Here in California, our beet harvest is at its peak. Californians ought to make a beeline to their local farmers markets to enjoy the beet bounty before it is over. Throughout cooler parts of the coun...
Shedding light on a permaculture farm: Review of “Bioshelter Market Garden” 30 Oct 2011 | 03:23 am
As small farmers look for ways to cut costs and increase their profit margins, they focus more attention on the energy used on the farm. Whether they implement energy efficiency measures or find ways ...
Shedding light on a permaculture farm: Review of “Bioshelter Market Garden” 29 Oct 2011 | 11:23 pm
In 1983, Darrell and Linda Frey established Three Sisters Farm in western Pennsylvania, seeing a five-acre field "of bare soil and corn stubble" as the perfect blank slate upon which to explore permac...
Slow what?: Review of “Slow Gardening” 12 Oct 2011 | 01:13 am
By now, I’m sure that all good Ethicurean readers are familiar with Slow Food and the tenets of this movement: the pleasure of good, clean, fair food and celebrating our many food traditions. The idea...
Slow what?: Review of “Slow Gardening” 11 Oct 2011 | 09:13 pm
In "Slow Gardening," author Felder Rushing points out that the idea is to slow down and enjoy gardening for its own sake, seeing a garden in its entirety while understanding the basic principles behin...
Minding common ground: “Poly-farming” in northeast Ohio 28 Sep 2011 | 05:00 pm
Just about any road I take that leads me out of Wooster, Ohio, very quickly guides me past vast fields of corn or soybeans. Agriculture plays a vital role in Wayne County’s economy, and for several de...
Minding common ground: “Poly-farming” in northeast Ohio 28 Sep 2011 | 01:00 pm
what would happen if you could get both a commodity farmer and a specialty crop farmer to drop their defenses, talk to each other, and find a way to work together? That was the question raised at last...
For Labor Day: Farmworkers’ Rights Still in the Toilet 6 Sep 2011 | 08:35 am
Cross-posted from the TEDxFruitvale blog. (Why? Read this.) Today is Labor Day, a time when most Americans think of barbecues and Mondays off, not so much the people who picked the potatoes in that s...
For Labor Day: Farmworkers’ Rights Still in the Toilet 6 Sep 2011 | 04:35 am
Today is Labor Day, a time when most Americans think of barbecues and Mondays off, not so much the people who picked the potatoes in that salad and the peaches in the cobbler, or who slaughtered and p...
