Tom Philpott of Grist talks about a surge of young farmers ready to tackle organic farming and the huge challenges they will need help surmounting. A growing number of young people are finishing college and resisting the pressure to plunk … Continued
In Eastern Oregon resides the headquarters of a major beef conglomerate, Beef Northwest. They produce meat that is sold under the “Country Natural Beef” (CNB) label. The cows raised to produce this beef are brought up by small family farmers … Continued
“Organic” can mean a lot of different things these days. Chemists define the word as a class of chemical compounds that have a carbon basis. Some people merely associate “organic” with something they bought at Trader Joe’s last week. “Organic” … Continued
During the first three decades of the 1900s there was an intense ecological movement in Germany. It was a movement of youth that promoted a return to the land and opposed industrialization’s damage to the earth. They were called Wandervögel … Continued