Resilience.org short break
By Resilience.org Staff, Resilience.org
The Resilience.org editorial team are taking a short break from 13-14 July. Regular posting will resume on Wednesday 15 July.
Raw Deals Over Raw Milk
By Gene Logsdon, The Contrary Farmer
One of the saddest stories I have ever written appeared in the February, 1982, issue of The New Farm magazine. It was about a farmer in Iowa who went to jail for selling raw milk.
Lawn Farming, the Next Big Thing
By Gene Logsdon, The Contrary Farmer
Every home with a lawn becomes a potential farm.
Your Favorite Farm and Garden Job
By Gene Logsdon, The Contrary Farmer
That’s an easy one for me— burning off the asparagus patch in the early spring. Just something about lighting up the new growing year.
Farm Success Brings Farm Failure
By Gene Logsdon, The Contrary Farmer
After years of belittling organic farming, some chemical farmers are exploring the possibilities of getting into it.
Farming controversies are so complicated
By Gene Logsdon, The Contrary Farmer
I read an article on the DTN/Progressive Farming website that once again shows how difficult it is to resolve differences of opinion in farming disagreements. The article was an even-sided discussion of possible overproduction of organic crops, (which I plan to write about soon) but a respondent took the occasion to launch into a rather vitriolic attack on organic farming. He was irritated about the organic stand against herbicides.
Milk Is Going The Wine Route
By Gene Logsdon, The Contrary Farmer
The increasing interest in artisanal foods is opening up all kinds of opportunities in farming that could hardly have been predicted even a few years ago. Who would ever have thought a good market for small, backyard hen coops would open up.
Factual science and maybe science
By Gene Logsdon, The Contrary Farmer
I am not against genetic modification but only against the way that herbicide manufacturers are using it to justify patenting any plant in nature that interests them and then, in my opinion, trying to use the patents to gain unfair monopolies in the food and farm economy.
Scratch An American, Find A Farmer
By Gene Logsdon, The Contrary Farmer
Old sayings like “scratch a Christian, find a pagan” or “scratch a Russian, find a Tartar,” have a counterpart in agriculture: Scratch an American, find a farmer.