Telling it Straight

by | Nov 16, 2012 | Uncategorized

Feeling grateful yet? Teenage poultry farmer dishes straight talk By Shelby Grebenc Special to The Denver Post Shelby Grebenc has been raising chickens for both eggs and meat at her family’s Adams County farm. In this 2011 photo, she holds Chipmunk, one of her...

Facts about GMO’s in our food

by | Nov 7, 2012 | Uncategorized

September 14, 2012 How to Avoid Dangerous Genetically Modified Food Americans have been consuming Genetically Modified (GM) foods since 1996. More than 70% of foods on supermarket shelves contain GM ingredients. But as the American Academy of Environmental Medicine...

The Good Life

by | Oct 16, 2012 | Farming, Self sustainability

It was the best of times, it is the best of times. It has been so hard to slow down enough to enjoy what we have built here. Tonight I got to put the chickens away, a job Dennis usually does. It is Indian summer here the last few days, and really hot for our north...

The Calif. Food Act Has Passed !

by | Sep 22, 2012 | Baking, Cooking, Farming, Self sustainability

the California Homemade Food Act, was signed into law today. The California Homemade Food Act legalizes the sale of homemade, “non-potentially hazardous” foods by creating a two-tier system of “cottage food operations” based upon the point of sale. Having captured the...

Thirty two States Pass “Bakers Bill”

by | Sep 18, 2012 | Uncategorized

Kristen Farrar would like to sell the cakes, scones, and muffins she bakes, using figs, walnuts, and citrus from farms near her home in Fresno, Calif. But the home-schooling mom of two can’t afford to rent commercial kitchen space or pay the $50,000 she estimates it...

Organic verses Conventional produce-errors in print

by | Sep 15, 2012 | Uncategorized

The Observatory — September 11, 2012 11:30 AM What does ‘healthier’ mean? Coverage of organic-food study plays loose with the term By Curtis Brainard TAGS: agriculture, antibiotics, bacteria, chemicals, farming, health, organic food, pesticides One...

A Steady State Economy

by | Sep 4, 2012 | Uncategorized

The problem that we are seemingly unable to countenance is the end of growth. Today’s system is predicated on the progressive conversion of nature into products, people into consumers, cultures into markets and time into money. We could perhaps extend that growth for...