The Telegraph by Sarah Knapton Source: Steve Johnson Saturated fat does not increase the risk of stroke, heart disease, diabetes or early death, a study has shown Saturated fat found in butter, meat or cream is unlikely to kill you, but margarine just might, new research suggests. Although traditionally dieticians have advised people to cut… Read more »
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Magical Sour Cabbage: How Sauerkraut Helped Save the Age of Sail
Modern Farmer by Tyler LeBlanc Source: mokapest It’s hard to go anywhere these days without running into a super-food. From farmers’ markets to your local grocery store, shelves are increasingly packed with items like goji berries, chia seeds, kelp and … sauerkraut? That’s right, sauerkraut. Not a traditional super-food by definition, this stringy, pale product… Read more »
How to Take Care of Baby Chicks
Raising baby chicks can be really rewarding. Rodale News by Matthew Benson Source: Our Green Thumb Farm If ever there were a path to instant farm cred—a fallback to hopping up on your straw bale and shouting, “Hey, I’m farming here!”—chickens might be it. And knowing what we know about the wing-on-wing crowding and misery… Read more »
Ag Industry At Odds Over Pesticide Studied In Bee Deaths
A class of pesticides commonly used on Midwest farm fields that have been linked to the destruction of bee colonies may not be as effective against corn and soybean pests as once thought, according to a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency report. NET Nebraska by Kristofor Husted, Harvest Public Media Source: Seth Sawyers Initially, the pesticides, called… Read more »
Ricardo Salvador: Build a New Food System
Johns Hopkins by Christine Grillo The Center for a Livable Future and the Department of Environmental Health Sciences Grand Rounds bring you the 15th Annual Edward & Nancy Dodge Lecture Please click here for Ricardo Salvador’s biography. Creating a genuine food movement that galvanizes the nation is an audacious goal, but reform is the most American… Read more »
Victory for Wisconsin Citizens Fighting for Clean Water
Manure Problems Highlighted in Court Challenge to DNR Water Pollution Permit MADISON, WI – The Wisconsin State Division of Hearings and Appeals has issued a decision in the water pollution permit challenge by residents of Kewaunee County against the state Department of Natural Resources. The court decision spotlights the widespread groundwater pollution problems in an… Read more »
Beef Checkoff ‘Bridge to Nowhere’ Is Better Left Behind
NOTE: The organic farming community is facing a full-court-press by the powerful industry lobby group, the Organic Trade Association. They want to pass a “checkoff” that will tax farmers to fund promotional and research work. The history of these checkoffs leave farmers extremely skeptical, to say the least. Cornucopia, and every organic farming group that… Read more »
Plant Breeders Release First ‘Open Source Seeds’
The Salt – NPR by Dan Charles A group of scientists and food activists is launching a campaign Thursday to change the rules that govern seeds. They’re releasing 29 new varieties of crops under a new “open source pledge” that’s intended to safeguard the ability of farmers, gardeners and plant breeders to share those seeds freely. It’s… Read more »
Combining Education and Agriculture
The Westerly Sun (RI) By Leslie Rovetti/ Sun Staff Writer CHARLESTOWN — On West Beach Road, a local organic farmer, Maxson Hence of Westerly, has established a nonprofit foundation that teaches local teenagers about agriculture and fills their stomach with fresh produce. Among the goals of the AYERSfoundation, newly founded by Hence and his wife,… Read more »
The Physicality of Farming
The Atlantic By Jeff Fisher “Your hands are going to bleed.” Anne Cure, owner of Cure Organic Farm in Boulder, Colorado, said this softly while looking off into the distance as Jack, one of the other farmers, described the day’s task of transplanting thousands of seedlings from the greenhouse into the field. The “bleeding hands”… Read more »
