LocalHarvest in the News :   Farming

A table set on a hill
Houston Chronicle - Nov 4, 2008
BRENHAM ? The most beautiful restaurant in Texas ? maybe the world ? bloomed briefly atop the second-highest hill in Washington County on the evening of Oct. 4.

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Gardens are growing in Newark
Newark Star Ledger - Sep 19, 2008
In the first few hundred years of Newark's history, before the Industrial Revolution and Ballantine beer, farming was the rule of thumb. Sections of what are now Weequahic Park and Branch Brook were..

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Slow Food Nation interview: Andrew Kimbrell
Grist - Sep 19, 2008
Andrew Kimbrell, executive director of the Center for Food Safety, was the force and vision behind Fatal Harvest. A lawyer by training, he has been investigating the doings of agribusiness for...

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A solar success
Lexington Herald-Leader - Aug 12, 2008
PORTER HOLLOW ? A rooster's crow, out behind the barn, launches the day at The Jerrys Farm, nestled amid rolling, green-shaded hills in western Fleming County.

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Old MacDonald had a farm bill
Grist - Jun 16, 2008
We've all noticed higher grocery bills, but did you know Congress passed a $307 billion farm bill in late May that has a much bigger impact on what you will eat for dinner tonight than what you....

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Life on the (organic) farm
Greensboro News Record - Jun 16, 2008
Charlie Sydnor is "Doc" to most who know him. The opthamologist excels at neuro-opthalmology, so much so that some patients travel from Durham to Burlington to see him.

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Destroying African Agriculture
Common Dreams - Jun 5, 2008
Biofuel production is certainly one of the culprits in the current global food crisis. But while the diversion of corn from food to biofuel feedstock has been a factor in food prices shooting up...

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THE YEAR IN FOOD
San Antonio Current - May 16, 2008
Years from now we?ll know if 2007 is remembered as the year that local food-ism entered the limelight for good, or as the year that Monsanto, simultaneously the world?s largest vegetable seed company

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Grass is greener for feeding chickens and lambs
Poughkeepsie Journal - May 16, 2008
With 24 years of vegetarianism between them, it might seem a little odd that KayCee Wimbish and Owen O'Connor have started a small livestock farm. The founders of Awesome Farm in Tivoli...

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Independent Lens: 'King Corn'
Washinton Post - Apr 22, 2008
Filmmakers Curt Ellis and Ian Cheney were online Wednesday, April 16 at noon ET to discuss "King Corn," which follows a crop of corn from seed to your dinner plate and looks at the impact...

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