SPONSORED Talk to several people at your local farmers’ market, and you’ll likely tap into a theme: farmers’ markets are a pillar of the local food community. Simultaneously fostering a strong sense of community, growing farmers’ businesses and providing access to healthy food, these markets happen every day in counties and towns across the nation….
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Growing Markets and Growing Farmers: America’s Farmers Market Celebration™
More Than A Roaster: Diedrich Roasters Makes a Global Impact From the Mountains of the Idaho Panhandle
Composting 101
Composting at home reduces what you send to the landfill and fortifies your garden. It’s also easier than a lot of people think. In the end, it’s a simple formula: Composting = Carbon + Nitrogen + Oxygen + Water + Time +Carbon The carbon part of that equation comes from what composters tend to call…
Book Review: The Land Remains by Neil D. Hamilton
Finding common ground implies a meeting of minds, a premise upon which we can build consensus. It seems sorely lacking in these politically contentious times. But Neil Hamilton’s The Land Remains reminds us that we already possess a common ground, in the most literal sense. It’s our land, which we ignore at our peril. The…
Women for the Land: A Program by American Farmland Trust Seeks to Help Women Agrarians Succeed
SPONSORED LeTicia Marshall has always been drawn to the soil. As a child, she helped with chores on her grandparents’ farm in Kentucky, feeding the pigs, picking strawberries and sidestepping cow patties along the way. The deep connection she has to the land was seeded at an early age and has since germinated into something she…
Alaska Runs on Salmon
Wild salmon connects consumers to landscapes and small fishing families in Alaska When you see “wild salmon” on a menu or sign at your local fish counter, it usually means the fish were caught in Alaska. Only about a quarter of the salmon Americans eat is wild. Of that portion, at least 80 percent comes…