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Family Farm Day lets you dig in

By CAROL GUNDERSEN
As regular patrons of their local farmers market, Elizabeth Wood and her family enjoy eating fresh food grown close to home. On a recent Saturday they went right to the source, munching vegetables and exploring the fields of a local farm as part of the Food Literacy Project’s Family Farm Day program.
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Bull shit
A new USDA program could put small farmers out of business

By STEPHEN GEORGE
LEO Weekly
Ralph Packard walks into his barn carrying a five-gallon bucket filled with small, yellowish pellets of feed. The swine—young, inexperienced and craving anything to eat—swarm him, trampling the plastic feed trays. They’re losing themselves in the pursuit, all squeals and snorts. At this stage, everything is food. They’ll chew on your shoes… »

Nature Camp, Nature Walks at Meadow Glen Farm

From Meadow Glen Farm’s Web site

Nature Camp
An exciting summer in the great outdoors is being planned for our 2009 Nature Camp at Meadow Glen Farm. Participants will have the opportunity to explore the fields, woods, pond and lake that surround our farm while becoming junior botanists, entomologists, ornithologists, and trekkers. Enrichment studies will focus on… »

Common Work

NONFICTION
By DANA WILDSMITH

“As a poet, I hold the most archaic values on earth: the fertility of the soil … the common work of the tribe.”–Gary Snyder
“I think we’re neighbors. Tell me again where you live.” Kathy’s on the phone with me about some community theater business, and I’ve tried twice already to explain where I… »

Waiting for the Hurricane to Arrive

By JANIS HARRINGTON

My father says we have plenty of time
to get in our car and make it safely home.
He tells me that on the farm he chased tornadoes’
black funnels in his pickup.
Don’t you want to see a hurricane?
I am five. We are alone
on the emptied out beach. When the siren shrilled,
mothers collected children, teenagers switched… »

Lessons in Neighborliness

By BRIAN LOWRY

A few years ago I attended the Healthy Foods, Local Farms Conference sponsored by the Community Farm Alliance of Kentucky. Amish farmer, naturalist and writer David Kline gave a wonderful speech that day. A question and answer period followed. The topic of technology came up. Of his people, David said, “We allow technology… »