Everybody’s a Food Safety Expert- To a Point?
Whether one is professionally representing some agricultural industry segment or one’s farming or ranching operation, it seems that nowadays everybody is a food safety expert. It does not matter whether you have farmed all of your life or are new to farming, studied finance or history or underwater basketweaving, somehow — as if by magic [...]
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Stewart Brand and Peter Kareiva on “Environmentalism for THIS century”
Peter Kareiva, the chief scientist for The Nature Conservancy, recently gave a seminar at the Long Now Foundation. His talk was summarized by Stewart Brand: Kareiva began by recalling the environmental “golden decade” of 1965-75, set in motion by the scientist Rachel Carson. In quick succession Congress created the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, and [...]
Continue Reading →Flower to Fruit with Southern Magnolia
The photos series of Magnolia grandiflora below are an excellent example of the physiological stages of plants from flower to fruit. The process is fundamental to all angiosperms on Earth and plays an important role in food production from grains, legumes, fruits and vegetables. Photos taken by Claudia Schellenberg who recently published a travel photograph with the [...]
Continue Reading →Spilled Milk and Sour Consequences
Surprisingly for some, although I grew up on a dairy, we did not drink our own milk. In a pinch we would scoop a cup out of the bulk talk for a recipe instead of make the 20 minute drive to the store, then cross our fingers no one got sick. But in general, our [...]
Continue Reading →Need a Direct Line for Info on Beef?
In an age of new media and self-proclaimed experts, getting credible information on food can feel like playing telephone in grade school. At the end of the game, the message doesn’t sound at all like the original, and no one is quite sure who changed it. The many myths surrounding “magical” grass-fed beef illustrate this [...]
Continue Reading →Real Farmwives of America: Dirty Jobs
Today, my gal pals and I of the Real Farmwives of America and Friends are talking about Dirty Jobs on the farm. Manure, mud, grease, bodily fluids – the dirty jobs you can find on a farm are pretty much at every corner. And then somehow they end up in my laundry room. You would not even believe some [...]
Continue Reading →Freedom to Choose: Our Food
~guest post by MRS Here in the United States, we are getting ready to celebrate our freedom and independence on July 4th. The celebration will be honored by friends and families with cookouts and parties, by communities with festivals and capped off around our country with displays of fireworks. As an American, I value this [...]
Continue Reading →Farm Photo Friday!
Take a look at this week’s beautiful farm photo!
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