A new video offering. I head out into the garden–in between cold spells and rain showers–and plant some potatoes.

http://media.libsyn.com/media/podchef/Spuds_FinalMix.mp4

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Dana say’s there’s still time to buy Driftwood Ranch Grass Fed Beef. If you’re in Western WA, check it out.

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The UK Chef Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall, of River Cottage fame, has a fantastic campaign going right now to promote Free-Range and Organic chicken production. I fear it will be a long time before anything like this could happen in the states, but if you’re in the UK, consider signing up to show your support.

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My friend Dana from Orcas Island wanted me to pass on this message:
Driftwood Ranch Grass-Fed Beef is available for purchase–your chance to stock up. These sides of beef are from a 3/4 Angus, 1/4 Charolais cross, which comprises most of our current herd.
We are scheduling the Mobile Processing Unit (run by Island Grown Farmers Cooperative […]

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Everything But the Squeal
Theme: Pastured Pork, Slaughter and Charcuterie
Begins: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 at 10:00 AM
Ends: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 at 3:30 PM
Location:
The Kitchen Garden Farm
Shaw Island, WA 98286

Registration fee: $75
Last date for registration: Sun, 14 Oct 2007
Last date for paper submission: Sun, 14 Oct 2007
Organizer: Neal Foley
Link: FaceBook Announcement

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I am honored to have been selected for the Bloggers For Positive Global Change meme. I would like to thank DownShifting for nominating me. I have often stopped in at their blog and enjoyed my visits.
While I certainly appreciate this and am honored,  I hardly understand why. I am just here on the edge of […]

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Yet more to file in the “How Science Destroyed Life” category. . . First this year we’ve had melamine contaminated pet foods, pork and chicken.  Then it was admitted that the world’s Honey Bees are dropping like flies. . . And now it appears that every American is dripping with Perchlorate–an ingredient in the Defense […]

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The very fact that GM potatoes could even remotely be linked to Cancer should be enough to have the research on their development stopped and all trials withheld. But a further question is, can we even tell which potatoes are genetically modified and which ones aren’t any more?
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In the past few weeks there has been almost too much news to keep on top of in food & agriculture related areas.
As the USDA’s bid to implement National Animal ID strengthens at the State level, all appearances are that as more people find out about this invasive, privacy stealing plan the backlash is having […]

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Food Miles are not a new concept. You can read some of my thoughts here. But increasingly Food Miles are gaining a lot more attention. But with this attention, the idea is getting more and more criticism. Criticism which is often times heavily slanted towards the views of Corporate Argi-Business.
The distance food travels to our […]

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