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What Could the Farm Bill Accomplish?
Posted by Sharon Astyk on January 30, 2012
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Kari Hamerschlag has a post up about the upcoming Farm Bill and its potential to move money away from large scale industrial agriculture and towards smaller producers. For most small farmers producing for local markets, the idea is heady – after all, the economics agriculture are tenuous for many of us – we get all…
Taboo, Sustainable Eating and Who We Are Not
Posted by Sharon Astyk on January 10, 2011 Pha Lo has a wonderful piece at Salon on the ways that his family’s history of locavorism was a source of shame and conflict for them, because it fit so badly into the American diet. He echoes a story I hear over and over again, both from immigrants and from Americans from traditional agricultural communities…