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Posts tagged “agriculture”

Let's Talk about Food: Ground Rules for Civil Dialogue
Los Angeles Times

2009 was the year that issues like local food, sustainable food systems, and agriculture reform went mainstream, and we expect this national conversation to intensify in 2010. Unfortunately, much of ...

Fair Food: The Farmworkers, The Growers, The Advocates

With Thanksgiving around the corner, we have been contemplating gratitude not just for the good food in our lives, but also for the farmworkers whose unseen hard labor brings this nourishment to our t...

Field Notes: Meet James Birch, Farmer and Bear Neighbor

One hundred percent of Americans eat food, but less than 2% of Americans actually grow or raise food. Farming as the primary source of income has decreased so rapidly over the last century that unl...