Tag: farming
Getting the Garden Going, One Baby-Step at a Time
This academic year Friends University found itself wondering what to do with a plot of land, directly beside and behind some student dormitories. Through...
On Being a Worthy Heir of the Agrarian Contrarians
But, as Shakespeare wrote, we sometimes “by indirections find directions out.”
Occupy Food! (And Other Simple Things)
As Christmas and the end of 2011 approaches, I find myself thinking gratefully about what Leroy Hershberger has enabled my students and me to...
Global Warming, Local Farming, and Naomi Klein: A Trip to the...
Wichita, KS
A couple of weeks ago some fine intellectuals, political figures, journalists, and activists associated with this blog gathered together to talk about localism,...
Get Rich! Become a Farmer.
This “summer of Hell,” to borrow Peters’ phrase, has had me in too many hospital/doctor waiting rooms. But as I was recently counting up...
Agrarian Politics: Why I Care
Interest in agrarian politics can start in childhood. As feminists used to say, "The personal is political."
Sausage Time Machine
Does food have a context of time and place?, or, How to make your own sausage.
Our Special Today is Spleen
Ah, you know what? Screw it. Give me the hairshirts wherever they are.
Which Came First, the Chicken or the McNugget?
In many ways, the Los Angeles County Fair is not so different from county fairs all over the country ... except for its agricultural exhibit.