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My first box of wintershare CSA produce arrived from Rock Spring Farm down there on the Minnesota-Iowa border.
What does one receive in a wintershare program from a farm in the Upper Midwest? Here's the run-down, which farmer Chris Blanchard posts on his Eat Better News blog: Read more...
Bob St. Peter has a provocative piece over at Grassroots Economic Organizing (a piece that was originally printed in Saving Seeds, Summer/Fall 2008) about the failure of food co-ops to truly transform, or provide an alternative to the nation's food system. While I don't agree with everything in the article, it's worth a close read, especially if you're a manager at a natural foods co-op or belong to one as a member.
From the article: Read more...
All next week, Monday October 12 - 18, we'll have a guest blogger on Fair Food Fight: Organic farmer, speaker, and educator Chris Blanchard (that's him at left on the tractor). Read more...
Toblerone, the chocolate-colored farm dog with yellow eyes, patrols Loon Organics' dusty gravel driveway, letting all newcomers know with his growling bark that he's on to them.
"It's his farm, really," says farm hand Kate Strathmann dryly as she bags salad mix in the shade of the packing house. "We're just visitors here." Read more...
Sorry for the delay in posting. I had my head under the website's hood for a couple days, but we're back on the road now. Read more...
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