If you’re interested in alternative investments or the implications of non-farmers owning massive tracts of farms and timber, you’ll want to pick up this book. Though there’s lots of meaty information about how the process of financialization took place, the author also discusses the implications of trading in something so essential to human well-being:
The Taste of Country Cooking weaves the biography of a community into a cookbook. More than an autobiography, Ms. Lewis documents her childhood in Freetown, a community of Black farmers in the middle of Virginia.
Is your farmer an orchestra conductor? Joy Combs likens the regeneration of Providence Farm to an orchestral concert, with each of the animals playing the part of a musical artist.
Farm & Food Friday
November events in the Piedmont Triad NC and state are highlighted here.
Farm & Food Friday
October events in the Piedmont Triad NC and state are highlighted here.
Farm & Food Friday is back! August events in the Piedmont Triad NC and state are highlighted here.
Cocoa on a Caribbean island is enough to put this on my top ten list of farms; however, what sets Crayfish Bay apart is the passion of the producers, Kim & Lylette Russell. They believe in empowering their cocoa farmers and making the technology for “tree to bar” chocolate accessible to others.
Farm & Food Friday is back! August events in the Piedmont Triad NC and state are highlighted here.
Generally, women farmers are underrepresented in the number of farmers in the U.S. and lack access to resources in other parts of the world. Research for this post has left me with many more questions than answers.
Whitney and Isaiah put their hands where their hearts and heads are by producing organic fruits, vegetables and more to share with their communities at local markets and restaurants. With their new grant to expand to forest farming, they’re increasing both the economic and environmental sustainability of their land.
Pineapples on Trees 