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Welcome back to the LocalHarvest newsletter. Last time I wrote about the choices we have as we face a rapidly changing future. It was a broad topic. No sooner had we finished reading your comments -- and thanks to all who wrote in! – when the New York Times ...

Welcome back to the LocalHarvest newsletter. What a month! Things are different. You feel it too, right? With gas prices soaring, Iowa flooding, salmonella striking tomatoes, and a global food crisis threatening, it seems to us that America is finally, slowly...

Welcome back to the LocalHarvest newsletter! This month's main article was supposed to be about the value of growing a little of your own food, but Michael Pollan beat us to it in a piece published in the NY Times Magazine. He did a bang up job....

Hawkeye apple, Slow Food Ark of Taste. One of the best parts of my job is getting to talk to farmers. This afternoon I called Ber-Gust Farm in western Ohio and talked with Rick Kabara while he planted potatoes. (He had already put in 1208 hills when I...

Asked to picture a farm in Iowa, and most people think of endless fields of corn. Though accurate for many parts of the state, there is something else going on in the northeastern corner of the state, something we would love to see cropping up all over the...

If you're like us, every time the Farm Bill is mentioned, an uncontrollable urge to drift away from the conversation overtakes you. You start wondering what's for supper, or whether the car needs an oil change. You'd just as soon leave the whole...

LocalHarvest Newsletter, January 30, 2008 Four weeks into the new year and 2008 already feels broken in. We at LocalHarvest have spent a good deal of that time putting big plans in place for the site -- new ways for the public to interact with...

Happy holidays to all! Tis the season of sparkling lights and deep darkness, frolicking and hibernation. Tis also the season of reflection and planning. We at LocalHarvest are looking ahead to all the improvements we would like to make to the site in the new...

Well, maybe a few of you folks are wondering what happened to the dashing duo, Guillermo and Amber. Did they arrive in Austin safely?  Have they made it back to California? Were they happy with their trip? Did they learn anything new from it? Has anything...

Happy Thanksgiving, all! Since we are always talking about good food and have been writing about our Thanksgiving excitement for a couple of months already, I thought I would devote this month’s newsletter to something different. The plan was to offer you...