Results for “farm”
The Biggest Small Farmer
...to keep it healthy over the long term. Bromfield, like many farmers interested in sustainability, did not desire mere primitivism in cultivation, but a more intelligent way of farming…
Happiness, Blues, and the Farm Bill
...of drafting and passing the Farm Bill. She also discusses the possibilities for funding for local food systems and farmers who don’t grow commodity crops. “In ‘Secret Harvests,’ Farmer…
Marce Catlett, Farm Policy, and AI Friends
...Trap: Why Some Farmers Are Stuck Raising Crops That No Longer Thrive.” Molly Parker, Julia Rendleman, and Lylee Gibbs detail a bureaucratic nightmare that keeps some farmers planting seeds…
The Saint of the City Goes Rural: Dorothy Day and the Life of the Land
...into view, the Catholic Worker farms have continued to thrive, and today there are 22 farms in operation in four countries. Contemporary Catholic Worker farms have taken a more ecological…
The Rediscovery of Agriculture?
...family farming or a model for organic farming which could be used in larger scale farms? 3. In many parts of the world where farms are small they do…
University Press of Kentucky, Group Think, the Farm Bill, and more
...built around farming in the United States is broken. Rather than encouraging farmers to eliminate risk by diversifying their crops, pursuing sustainability, and embracing a proper scale, we’ve propped…
Truck Farm
...obviously they aren't using it for anything if they can grow plants in the bed! Peter B. Nelson These fellows aren't farmers, they're filmmakers, and this so-called truck farm…
Hedge Farm
...an alarm on the possibility of a bubble in farmland for a while, I believe. This latest article indicates to me that those who hold farmland would be wise…
The Invisible Hand, Context, and Farm Robots
...supporting local farms. “Farmworker vs Robot.” Writing for the Washington Post, Danielle Paquette describes a new strawberry-picking machine that may soon replace the human “labor force.” Industrialization operates by first…
Is There Such a Thing as Private Food?
...public health scrutiny on the evening it was serving its first-ever farm-to-fork dinner to dozens of area customers. In a letter to the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund, farm owner…
On the Agripositive Side. . . .
...do not understand this comment. How are large farms more poorly managed than small farms? What makes a large farm large versus a small farm? Is it how the…
Agrarian Politics: Why I Care
...the entire state. Having the best farm land meant that we had the most prosperous farmers. I did not grow up on a farm. I grew up in Spencer—a…
James Rebanks in Conversation: Pastoral Song
...that collaboration is the way forwards, the old male macho farmer myth is something I try to dismantle in my book—good farms always took a village of people to…
Intellectual Grounding: A Conversation with Wes Jackson
...up on the farm? You watched older brothers and sisters and your parents take their work seriously, on the farm and in the household. Is that where you picked…
The Names of Things
...and Sky Farm and our Pied Beauty Farm exist as near mirror images of each other. Both were rundown, intensively farmed homesteads. Both have been taken over by English…
Where Is Our Freedom to Exercise Sympathy?
...the same thing my farmer grandpa had. I wanted the special thing that a farm gives to a farmer. What to call this thing? Maybe: a home place. A…
Farm Stories: The Flag of Rough Branch
Russell Arben Fox Our greatest stupidity from my farm years while growing up was the assumption my father--who knew about horses and cattle and feed and wheat and alfalfa…
The Internet Won’t Feed You, and Neither Will We
...small, self-sustaining family farming operation. How glorious for all of us arm-chair farmers (most of us on this site, I suspect, have done no real farming to speak of).…
Dash, Grandpa’s Three-Legged Dog
...to bury Dash and leave the farm. But she surely heard her dad reminisce about the farm. And later, when they bought Buffy, maybe he told them stories about…
The Family-Centered Economy
...that the true nature of the family farm economy could not even be understood by using the categories of either Marxist or Manchester Liberal analysis. Peasant farms, for example,…
Grace Olmstead’s Uprooted Idaho, and My Own
...it is, though, they aren’t. Olmstead details the lives of many contemporary farmers in the Emmett area who are sticking it out despite the obstacles all around them–people like…
Eating for Another Fifty (Centuries)
...think of the 50-Year Farm Bill as a 50-Year Eating Bill. Because I feel sure you like to eat. And without the one you cannot do the other. Here…
Burn the Vineyard
...the population having relatives on the farms, much of the produce goes the cities to supplement the inadequate incomes of the urban sectors. The farmers must work in the…
Wholeness and Gratitude: Working through Scott H. Moore’s How to Burn a Goat
...are unnaturally terrified of shit,” whereas farmers come to accept it since “on a farm you simply can’t avoid shit. It’s everywhere” (5, 6). This particular materiality of farming…
