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Wednesday Morning Muse

November 19th, 2008 · No Comments · family, farming & gardening

Food is a microcosm of the macrocosm. Eating the right food is part of the solution to the problems of climate change and global hunger.(1)
Resurgence Magazine is focusing on Food this month.
I often find myself drawn to the subject of food…Not necessarily for reasons that would appear obvious. As a teenager I cut my proverbial [...]

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Musing for a Sunday Morning…

November 2nd, 2008 · No Comments · Food Safety, Photography, farming & gardening, writers

Leon Hale’s weekly column this morning reached back to before my birth…But, he touched a chord even so. The final lines though really rang true…
I guess what got me going on television is that just lately we installed a new set in the old country house at Winedale. One of those flat-screen jobs that everybody [...]

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An Open Letter to the Next Farmer in Chief - Michael Pollan

October 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Food Safety, climate change, farming & gardening, politics, weather

This link is as much for me as it is for you few folks who read these daily musings.
Farmer in Chief

By MICHAEL POLLAN
Dear Mr. President-Elect,
It may surprise you to learn that among the issues that will occupy much of your time in the coming years is one you barely mentioned during the campaign: food. Food [...]

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More Musing on the State of Our Food…

August 10th, 2008 · No Comments · Food Safety, just musings

It just goes to show you, when the government doesn’t believe in regulations…Regulations go by the wayside and enforcement becomes mute…
Whole Foods Market pulled fresh ground beef from all of its stores Friday, becoming the latest retailer affected by an E. coli outbreak traced to Nebraska Beef, one of the nation’s largest meatpackers. It’s the [...]

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