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 Stories About: food and agriculture AND sustainable ag AND Victual Reality
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Dishing It Out
My address to the Southern Appalachian Youth on Food conference |
Tom Philpott |
08 Mar 2007 |
Victual Reality |
| One crop to rule them all. Photo: USDA Tucked into the rolling hills of North Carolina's Swannanoa Valley, Warren Wilson College is essentially surrounded by a farm. The school's 800 students not only tend the 275-acre farm -- which includes pastured livestock and vegetables -- they also provide the labor to run the campus. They do everything from accounting to plumbing to cooking in the ca ... |
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| Topics: food and agriculture, industrial ag, sustainable ag, Victual Reality (all these topics) |
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Fertile Ground
Reviving a much-cited, little-read sustainable-ag masterpiece |
Tom Philpott |
01 Mar 2007 |
Victual Reality |
| The real Arsenal of Democracy is a fertile soil, the fresh produce of which is the birthright of nations. -- Sir Albert Howard, The Soil and Health Sir Albert Howard. Around 1900, a 27-year-old British scientist named Albert Howard, a specialist in plant diseases, arrived in Barbados, then a province of the British Empire. His charge was to find cutting-edge cures for diseases that attacked t ... |
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