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Pouring Cheese on Icy Roads in (Where Else?) Wisconsin By STEVEN YACCINO Published: December 23, 2013 MILWAUKEE — In a state whose license plates advertise it as America’s Dairyland, where lawmakers once honored the bacterium in Monterey Jack as the state’s official microbe and where otherwise sober citizens wear foam cheesehead hats, road crews are […]

We love TXYFC podcasts! Episode #7 features A+S Farm, based out of Moulton, TX. Shaun and Amy Jones raise heritage Gulf Coast Sheep for meat, utilizing an intensive pasture management system called “Mob Grazing”. We dive into the details on this, as well as the nitty gritty of moving from an urban setting to a […]

we highly recommend a few online archives of useful content https://openlibrary.org/ to find any book at a public  library near you www.archive.org to find online books, movies, music.. and a copy of the internet from any period in time www.freemusicarchive.org a non corporate version of grooveshark/pandora that lets you experiment with new music that others have posted FOR […]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxNtgMSHJGA] more videos here  

Rebuilding America's Economy with Family Farm Centered Food Systems Seeds of hope lie in America’s family farmers and ranchers despite the grim economic conditions facing the nation. Our new report seeks to underscore what we at Farm Aid know as a simple truth: supporting family farmers and family farm centered food systems is a powerful […]

and what would that mean? Secret trade agenda threatens shift toward sustainable food system October 24, 2013 by Karen Hansen-Kuhn After being delayed by the U.S. government shutdown, talks for a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) are quietly gearing up again. Tariff barriers between the U.S. and EU are already low, so these negotiations […]

Worth a watch if you haven't seen it already. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM]

We know that many of you are writing books, or working on other projects, right now, and we wanted to share information about this amazing Adirondack retreat/residency center which has an application period ending in February. http://www.bluemountaincenter.org/programs/residencies/application

worthwhile winter reading!  Subscribe here.   The Baffler, est. 1988, is a printed and digital magazine of art and criticism appearing three times annually—spring, summer, and fall. We’re headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts; edited by John Summers,Thomas Frank, and Chris Lehmann; designed by Patrick Flynn; distributed byMIT Press; and delivered to subscribers and bookstores in all fifty U.S. states. The Baffler is now […]

A beautiful film: http://soskentilevigtid.no/home/ [vimeo http://vimeo.com/73042105] "Siblings are Forever" is a warm and poetic documentary about a brother-and-sister couple, Magnar and Oddny. Both are about 70 years old. They live on the family farm at Kleiva in Naustdal, a few miles from Førde in Sogn & Fjordane county. The siblings run the farm in about the […]

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this one in berlin http://contemporaryfoodlab.com/

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vVR5Pdufqs] A series of six videos about farming grains and healthy soils: http://www.youtube.com/user/BluebirdGrainFarms/videos

The Right to Food. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74n5I0h4kUQ]

Here's a  little bit of Wendell Berry for your day. The Mad Farmer, Flying the Flag of Rough Branch, Secedes from the Union From the union of power and money From the union of power and secrecy, From the union of government and science, From the union of government and art, From the union of […]

another important film. [vimeo http://vimeo.com/15693148] TASTE THE WASTE A film by Valentin Thurn Why do we throw away so much food? And how can we stop this kind of waste? Amazing but true: On the way from the farm to the dining-room table, more than half the food lands on the dump. Most of it […]

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I have been pursuing self education in technology criticism here is a good one "[People] somehow assume that the Internet is going to be the catalyst of change that will push young people into the streets, while in fact it may actually be the new opium for the masses which will keep the same people […]

Another nice video: http://foodmyths.org/ [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWOcP-bXuO8]

Young farmers planting futures in San Mateo County By Max A. Cherney Tony Cozzolino and his wife, Stephanie, are not your typical millennials. While the majority of their peers live in the increasingly connected and tech-savvy Bay Area, the Cozzolinos have chosen another way of life: Farming. Almost entirely by himself, Tony, 28, plants 12 […]

"Man of Aran" Man of Aran (1934) is a fictional documentary (docufiction) by Robert J. Flaherty about life on the Aran Islands off the western coast of Ireland. It portrays characters living in premodern conditions, documenting their daily routines such as fishing off high cliffs, farming potatoes where there is little soil, and hunting for […]

Thank you, Bob St. Peter! The list is just a start. Wendell Berry wrote in Conserving Communities of the need for farmers to stop looking for help where we continually fail to find it. Sadly, in my decade of food work in Maine I have found little direct financial support for farmers, and about zero […]

  Ring of Power ‘The Circle,’ by Dave Eggers By ELLEN ULLMAN Mae Holland, a woman in her 20s, arrives for her first day of work at a company called the Circle. She marvels at the beautiful campus, the fountain, the tennis and volleyball courts, the squeals of children from the day care center “weaving […]

ENSSER Comments on the Retraction of the Séralini et al. 2012 Study Journal's retraction of rat feeding paper is a travesty of science and looks like a bow to industry Elsevier's journal Food and Chemical Toxicology has retracted the paper by Prof. Gilles-Eric Séralini's group which found severe toxic effects (including liver congestions and necrosis […]

I suppose this is a tradition in england. "naked old ladies raise money for local hospital"...etc Their traditional boots and hats help keep dignity, but not totally. S http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2510460/Young-farmers-pose-flat-caps-wellies-risqu-charity-calendar.html

Food Chains explores the exploitation of farm workers in the agriculture industry in the United States, the complicity of government and corporations in perpetuating human rights abuses, and the role consumers can play in ending some of the most egregious human rights violations within our borders. Food Chain is a fact-based essay form documentary, aiming […]

what if western states were defined by watersheds? http://communitybuilders.net/the-united-watershed-states-of-america/ The story begins with John Wesley Powell, the great one-armed adventurer and geologist. He was made famous for his successful runs through the Colorado River in 1869 and 1872. But perhaps his most important legacy rests in a lesser-known deed: Proposing in 1879 that as the […]

Here is a teaser: [vimeo http://vimeo.com/39032509] want to help? email [email protected]

If you saw the films Queen of the Sun, or Farmer John, you know the power of great visual story telling and that sweet ironic funny loving touch that Jon and Taggart bring to their films. Now they have turned their perceptive attention to seeds and you can be part of making this happen. SEED: […]

12 Years a Slave [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUQNjfhlREk]  

By Lindsey Rebhan The agricultural landscape in the U.S. is at another turning point in history. The number of people who lived on farms peaked in 1935, 54% of the nation’s citizens lived on 6.8 million farms. Today, farmers make up less than 1% of the population. Despite this historical move away from farming, we […]

http://livinglands.co.za/living-lands-at-the-thicket-forum-2013/ making decisions from a landscape perspective.

Rural Punk Magazine Call Out For Submissions Hey You! Rural Punk! We are creating a magazine just for us, the rural punks, back to the land skids, backwoods anarchists, etc! The Country Grind is a smokin’ new quarterly magazine specifically for those folks who have ran away from the cities in search of a simpler, saner, […]

The latest from the Beehive Collective! Support the project HERE [kickstarter url=http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/beehivecollective/hatch-the-beehives-epic-story-graphic-mesoamerica width=480] It's done, it's done!!! We can't wait for you to see our newest illustration! Help us print Mesoamérica Resiste, the long-awaited final graphic in an epic trilogy about globalization in the Americas. Now that the illustration is complete, we need your support […]

How You Pay Farmers to Watch Their Crop Shrivel Up and Die by Laird Townsend for Mother Jones The federal crop insurance program puts farmers in a real bind. And as climate change intensifies, it's only getting worse. In 2011, Eric Herm's cantaloupes exploded. A fourth-generation cotton farmer in West Texas, Herm was experimenting with […]

All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace is a 2011 BBC documentary series by filmmaker Adam Curtis. The series argues that computers have failed to liberate humanity and instead have "distorted and simplified our view of the world around us". The title is taken from the 1967 poem of the same name by Richard Brautigan. The first of three episodes aired in May 2011 on BBC2. […]

Hey look! Our friend Aube and her great blog, Kitchen Vignettes, are on the PBS site! Kitchen Vignettes on PBS. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGjJMGXL9ho&w=640&h=360] scroll down on the site for pumpkin apple baked beans.... yum.

[vimeo http://vimeo.com/62921614] Audio Portrait: Heidi Redd, Dugout Ranch; Stakeholder Group: Working Landscapes perspective

The Real Food Media Contest is seeking short and powerful films--from 30 seconds to four minutes--on food, farming, and sustainability. Contest judges include Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Robert Kenner (Food Inc.), The Food Network's Padma Lakshmi, Keri Putnam from the Sundance Institute, and Johanna Blakley from University of Southern California, and more. The Contest is a […]