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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…
Sausage Time Machine
...on the farm with an aunt, uncle, and four cousins. It was a working farm, meaning you’d feed (and help slaughter) chickens, milk the cows, kill gophers (up to…
Why Heidegger Stayed in the Provinces—and Why it is Not Time for the ‘Robert Penn Warren Option’
...of farmer-craftsmen. If the family farm is too small to support a family, Pop (or Mom, in some cases) has to supplement family income with work "in town". My…
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…
Yearning for Eden: Horace and the Romance of Agrarianism
...with what delight he plucks the pears he grafted / and grapes that challenge any purple dye” (Ibid., 1-3, 17-20). Thus we see Horace’s image of peace: An idyllic…
For the Hog Killing, 1979 and the Work of Photography
...fourth wall off a farmhouse to present farmworkers as stylized farmer-types of uniform height, dress, and haircut in a kind of diagrammatic tableau, Berry’s tight shot places us in…
Fitting into the Bigger Picture
...property is dynamic, adjusting the tension between growing and dying, meaning and stewardship, preserving and releasing. Whole sections of farmland across our county and state grow seedlings at roughly…
Tending the Soil of our Homes: Gracy Olmstead’s Paean to Roots
...place, and neighbors. Yet the rewards for uprooting and moving elsewhere are enticing. One of the threats to good farming in Emmett today is that successful farmers can no…
Finding a Home Field: A Review of In Thought, Word, and Seed
...hoping to found a “just food farm,” aspiring to “build welcoming, diverse communities of neighbors, farmers, and artists.” And yet their accomplishment of these lofty goals, naturally, can only…
Story of the Seasons: The Countryman’s Notebooks of Adrian Bell
...consumer, the farmer or the land itself—is severely compromised. It is this division that he laments when he writes: At the start of the last war, there were almost…
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…
Eating Local–Or Local Enough
...farm is and perhaps it is small enough that your concerns are warranted, but I would guess that this farmer is making a living off of the farm and…
Agrarian Fireworks
...than likely, the farmer knows someone killed or disfigured by a blast, explosion, or fire. On the farm, or at least on our farm, a gun was a thing…
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…
A Pastoral Inheritance: James Rebanks and a Tribute to Our Late Cathedral Sacristan
...is impossible for farmers now sealed away in large tractors. I found in Rebanks’s portrayal of him a kindred spirit of Jan—he was to his farm as she was…
Socialism, Localism, and the Future of Industrial Agriculture
...Seed companies have an interest in developing bespoke varietals, and then patenting them so that farmers have to buy new seed year after year. (Though lots of farmers would…
I Did Taste!
...these parts. These were local farmers organizing a farmer’s market. I had offered the parking lot of my law firm for their use, and was mostly just an observer…
Life in Circle Six
...the field, the fishery, the factory, the forest, and the mine." Factory and mine differ from farm, field, fishery and forest in that they cannot replenish themselves. To use…
Places That Remember Themselves: The Erosion of Memory in an Unmoored World
...say, Here, my people lived. Here, they built. Here, they remain. The Sprik homestead is lost to me. Never again will it be rolling farmland, surmounted by a fine…
The Full Life of Empty Rural Spain
Rick Pace Lenny This is a wonderfully written article… in the long history of natural history writing and observation based science. Rick Pace Rhode Island Farm Incubator Shewatuck Farm…
Food and Freedom
...the spring rains water the earth, and the intensifying sun heats things up, we know it will not be long before we are able to drive about from farm…
Can Local and Organic Feed the World?
..."conservative.") 2. But--sorry, Mr. Laughlin--it's clear that the small-scale labor-intensive farming methods of, say, the Amish are more sustainable than the large-scale methods of industrial farming. Such Amish farmers…