Farm

  • GMO And Cardboard Food

    May 24, 2015 Folks in Jackson County, Oregon are having a fit. The people of Jackson County voted last fall to ban GMO (genetically modified organism) crops. Alfalfa growers are ticked off. Lawsuits are filed. Having planted “Roundup Ready” alfalfa,… Continue reading

  • A Practice Of Reverence, Honor, And Spirit

    May 17, 2015 Knowing food is a spiritual practice. Paying close attention to food is living a practice of knowing creation. To know food is to move beyond myopic buying of food with little thought of its origin: the people… Continue reading

  • A Kitchen of Culture, Life, And Conversation

    May 10, 2015 The kitchen is a favorite room of mine. Hard to imagine it isn’t everyone’s. Good food, good company, and good talk roll over the counter top and fill the house. Not a big room, but open with… Continue reading

  • A Landscape of Dented Buckets and Grain Sacks

    May 03, 2015 We were driving through the Nova Scotia countryside in November taking in farms and farming practices. The practices and work we saw was much like the work of small farmers back home. Most farms were multi-crop in… Continue reading