Problems With The Food System
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What’s In This Burger Anyway?
This story ran yesterday on Fresh Air, Terry Gross interviews Tom Philpott, agricultural writer for Mother Jones. It covers everything from the USDA regulation of meat to antibiotic and hormone use in feed, and everything in between. At a time when food safety concerns are prominent, recalls are high, people are worried about pink slime, and more and more people are turning to local
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Attended the 2013 New England Vegetable Convention in Manchester – WOW !
December 16,17 & 18 2013 Jennie and Richard just returned from the Vegetable growers convention held at the Radisson Hotel in Manchester where much was learned about practices and related issues for small farms. Learned much. Saw lots of wonderful new equipment and heard incredible talks about issues that affect us all who eat vegetables.
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SAVE THE DATE !!! Open House, Monadnock Region CSA’s
Sunday, March 25th , 1-4 pm at Stonewall Farm LearningCenter Spring is coming, along with opportunities to become involved with local farms and to receive local, fresh food! Learn about Community Supported Agriculture and meet the farmers ! Enjoy a talk by Katy Locke from the Monadnock Sustainability Network, http://www.greenmonadnock.com/?page_id=72 Katy has recently devoted her life to bringing forth an environmentally sustainable, socially just, and
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Summer Soltice Celebration June 24th – POT LUCK
Summer will soon be here ( What happened to our Winter ?) All are invited to come to the farm and enjoy an afternoon of games, hiking, badmitten, horse shoes, croquet – hot dogs and ?? There will a hayride down to the beaver pond for the young ones every hour. RSVP please with Contact Ron and marion Rzaza at ronmar325@gmail.com or call 818-929-2901.
Egg Tests from Mother Earth News
Mother Earth News’ first egg tests revealed that free-range eggs have a higher vitamin content and lower cholesterol and saturated fat content than supermarket eggs. And with the results of our latest tests, the news just keeps getting better! It turns out that free-range eggs are also a terrific source for one particular vitamin that we could all use more of.
Food Manifesto
Recently Mark Bittman posted a commentary on the state of food in the US. As a New York Times commentary, we have to agree with many of the points set out by Mark. Here is a link to the article. Some of the ideas for sustainable food supply: End government subsidies to processed food. Begin subsidies to those who produce and sell actual food
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