I thought it might be fun to throw together a speedlink post of sustainable agriculture news articles and websites. Let me know if you like the idea (or not). I’ll give a little synapsis of the link – click through for the full text.
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Linn County farmer Laura Krouse is the 2007 recipient of the Leopold Center’s Spencer Award for Sustainable Agriculture.
“Krouse is the first small-market farmer to receive the award, established in 2002 to honor farmers, educators or researchers who’ve made significant contribution toward the stability of mainstream family farms in Iowa.”
Abbe Hills Garden – Local Harvest Listing
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Send in the Clones
“As early as Tuesday, the FDA is likely to issue U.S. food producers an approval to begin selling meat and dairy from cloned animals and their offspring… Critics find it particularly worrisome that the FDA has said it won’t require labeling for products of cloned animals and their offspring.”
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Slow Food is Cooking in 50 States
This week’s cover story from the National Catholic Reporter
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Organic Agriculture Can Feed the World
Not a recent article, but one of Ode Magazine’s “Top 10 Positive Stories from 2007”
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Loving, Knowing, and N-P-K
“I begin by talking about love and knowledge because it marks the greatest difference between agrarian or traditional farming and industrial or scientific farming… Organic agriculture, before it became co-opted by the industrial-technological complex, was a reaction against the reductionistic N-P-K model of agriculture.”
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Census Takes Farming Industry’s Pulse
We received a census. Did you?
Yes, we received a census too – and friends of ours, who farm way, way more than we do, haven’t even gotten theirs yet. All to report my 8 little cows. . . .
I really appreciate this post. It helps me to stay on top of the topics. There is always so much going on at the farm, I find it hard to keep up on other matters.
Thanks for the list! Now I know what I’m reading tonight…
thanks for the comments everyone – I will keep doing the ag speedlink posts then. (It keeps me up-to-date!)