You know the Sunday New York Times Magazine issue I blogged about a few days ago, the "food issue" featuring a major essay by Michael Pollan?
It also highlighted the farm I help run, Maverick Farms, in a section on "food fighters." We're extremely flattered and delighted to be included in the same list as the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a group at the forefront of putting social justice at the center of the food movement. Grist contributor Anna Lappé is also featured along with her writing partner, Bryant Terry.
You can also peer inside our fridges as we describe the contents.
Do diesel-based farmers dream of electric tractors?
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caniscandida Posted 4:59 pm
13 Oct 2008
The photo of you with your friends did not much surprise me, though it is true that I pictured you as bigger and more grizzled. The barn behind you, with its dramatic diagonally set woodwork, is stunning. But that forested hollow looks as though it might get buggy at times ...
And no doubt more than once you have had to tell people that, No, Maverick Farms is not the NC campaign headquarters for McCain/Palin.
Too bad your post on the article by Michael Pollan got over-trolled. He has all kinds of great ideas; and it occurred to me that he was making it known, in this open letter to the next president (and he apparently has in mind the candidate who famously likes arugula, aka rocket) that he would not mind at all being picked for Secretary of Agriculture.
Chickens deserve our true friendship! So do fish! So do other sentient beings! Let us learn to be kind.
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amazingdrx Posted 12:58 am
14 Oct 2008
"... livestock production alone is responsible for 18 percent of all greenhouse-gas emissions -- a higher percentage than all forms of transportation."
Biodigestion of the waste stream and organic fertilizer production could offset the GHG from transportation. But not only that. It could even replace oil.
Biogas could provide the necessary backup for renewable energy and plugin hybrid transportation.
Happy farming Tom. Maybe this looming depression will make back to the land trendy, like it did during the great depression?
And that might just keep the environmental movement going? It seems the media focus has shifted to financial crisis and off of environmental crisis.
Can green manufacturing jobs save the eco-momentum? A new deal, new wave of plugin cars, ground source heating/cooling, and solar systems?
Maybe a green farming/food movement would provide just as many green jobs? It's possible.
High tech green energy and green food can be symbiotic, economy saving movements. Even though technologists and farmers are not compatible.
http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog John Schneider, Northern Wisconsin
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