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 Stories About: agriculture AND food AND Iowa AND local food AND sustainable ag
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And Meals to Go Before We Sleep
As food series ends, the story is just beginning |
Tom Philpott |
19 Oct 2007 |
Grist Feature |
| During my trip to the Midwest this summer, I saw many unsettling sights: vast monocropped landscapes lashed regularly with chemicals, insidious low-slung buildings that imprison thousands of animals and concentrate their waste. Yet I returned oddly invigorated, buzzing about Iowa's promise as a sustainable-ag mecca. Amid the cornfields and the CAFOs, I saw thriving homestead farms whe ... |
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| Topics: agriculture, food, industrial ag, Iowa, local food, sustainable ag (all these topics) |
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It Can Be Done
Images of a sustainable-food revolution |
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10 Oct 2007 |
Grist Feature |
| Imagine a place where residents pull together to create a thriving store and restaurant serving fresh, local food. Imagine a place where the money appears, the dreams become real, the produce and pastured meat taste like home. Imagine a place where officials support these dreams with policies that fund organic farmers and encourage the purchase of local food. You can stop imagining. It's happening in Woodbury County, Iowa. It ... |
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| Topics: agriculture, food, Iowa, local food, sustainable ag (all these topics) |
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A Tale of Two Counties
In the farm belt, a look at the extremes of agricultural production |
Tom Philpott |
10 Oct 2007 |
Grist Feature |
| When I arrived in Iowa on a reporting trip this summer, I expected to experience it with city eyes: frankly, as a rural backwater. I've lived on a farm in the Appalachians of North Carolina since 2004, but the ten years before that, I lived in Mexico City and New York City. I don't know from vast fields and wide horizons. Instead, barreling down the highway between appointme ... |
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| Topics: agriculture, farmers markets, food, grassroots activism, industrial ag, Iowa, local food, sustainable ag (all these topics) |
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Forget the Farm Bill
For now, local politics is the way to effect ag-policy change |
Tom Philpott |
02 Aug 2007 |
Victual Reality |
| Over the past few years, grassroots support has swelled for new federal farm policies -- ones that promote healthy, sustainably grown food, not the interests of a few agribusiness firms. Udder madness. Photo: iStockphoto The target of much of this organizing has been the 2007 farm bill. If past farm bill debates have been the concern of a small cadre of lobbyists and activists, this one ... |
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| Topics: ag policy, agriculture, Congress, farmers markets, food, industrial ag, Iowa, local food, organic food, politics, sustainable ag, Victual Reality (all these topics) |
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