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Understanding Some of the Pressures on the Food Chain
Wouldn’t it be nice if we didn’t have to be all atwitter about the price of eggs? But our food system is, indeed, a mess. And we need to understand where the pressures are coming from. There are extreme weather…
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Reflections on Spring Planting Season
This past week, a good friend and reader, who grew up in the same area of northern Illinois, asked me what’s going on with food availability and prices. Turns out that it’s complicated – and a long story. It’s planting…
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How Do Oats, Peas, Beans, and Barley Grow?
Here’s some unsolicited advice. Begin to seriously practice being a locavore – and encourage your friends to do the same. The reason: Our global food system faces grave challenges, both near-term and long-term. Since the last time I wrote about…
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It’s Spring, and Planting Season for Our Wheat
WARNING: This blog contains gluten. We’re on the cusp of spring growing season. The snow has melted, and the frozen ground below is thawing. It’s the time of year when the farmers I knew as a youth were itching to…
