The Farmer’s Garden

Phelan linked to this great service, The Farmer’s Garden, on her blog and it looks awesome.  It’s a way to see if there are any farms or gardens around you that have surplus they are selling or bartering.  Sadly, there isn’t anything within 100 miles of me yet, but this seems like the kind of [...]

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Sec. of Agriculture

Michael Pollan for Secretary of Agriculture!
Sign the Petition!

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2 Things:

1.  Don’t forget that tomorrow is Election day!  No excuses!
2.  I’ve started writing a new blog (God help us all!) for my CSA, Colchester Farm.  I’m moderating it, in a way, and doing most of the posting, but we will have ocassional guest posts by the couple that runs it and other volunteers.  I hope [...]

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DO IT!

If you haven’t registered yet, you are running out of time.
You have to vote.  You have to care.
Go do it now.
I don’t care who you vote for (OK, that’s a lie) but you have to do it.  Voting is the most important thing we can do as Americans.  DO IT.

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Know your food sources

Laurie at Slowly She Turned wrote a post today asking her readers to take action on a USDA ruling.  I’m going to post her entry here in entirity, but I do hope you visit her site if you aren’t reading it already.
Thanks, Laurie! 
CLOSE THE COOL LOOPHOLE
Comments due by September 30, 2008
The 2002 and the 2008 [...]

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Eat the View

There is a wonderful movement going on right now called Eat the View.  It’s a push to try and get the next president to plant a garden on the White House lawn.  This is a genius idea, and it’s happened before.  Imagine the message it would send to people to see something like this on [...]

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