Thanks to the emergence of a Swine Flu Pandemic, there has been a heightened awareness of pork production this week. While the American Pork Industry seeks to reassure the nation that pork is still good to eat amidst plummeting sales, there are still worse reactions around the world. In Mexico, pork sales have fallen 70% [...]

As you will know, I am passionate about food and farming. I defend anyone’s rights to eat what they want, how they want to. I have been fortunate that, although I wasn’t raised on a farm, agriculture has always been a part of my life. I have been equally fortunate to have always seen [...]

I imagine “out there” somewhere there exists a growing group of people who would love to live in a bubble. A protective bubble where no harmful organisms exist. These mysophobes would love to dine on irradiated foods, completely sterilized of all harm, nutrition and flavor. They seek to sanitize the world. If ever they [...]

Ever since building the Polytunnel, I have been seeking to improve ways of extending the growing season for vegetables. When I stumbled upon an serialization of the book French Gardening by Thomas Smith in Small Farmer’s Journal I thought I had struck gold. The book, originally written in 1909, divulges the intensive gardening secrets of [...]

It’s all well and good to champion local and artisanal foods and it is fantastic to see the groundswell behind these products, but somewhere along the way these local producers need to accept some responsability for standards. How do consumers judge such products? Is it by sampling a wide variety of similar craftsmade products, [...]