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Picking Blueberries In East Texas With realtraveladventures.com

While we’re waiting for opening day to come around, read about Bonnie Neely’s blueberry-picking day trip to Kiomatia Blueberry Farm. Bonnie writes for Real Travel Adventures International, featured over at realtraveladventures.com — which you want to go check out now! Don’t miss their other new articles, archives… and be sure to subscribe to their free [...]

Notes on the Expanding Urban Farm Field

Googling “urban farming” yields, not surprisingly, numerous results for cities such as Portland, Oregon, presently — but where it really starts to look interesting is when you look at one of the United States’ most economically depressed cities: Detroit, Michigan.

from the Urbanophile:

Detroit is also attracting dreams of large scale renewal through agriculture, as Mark Dowie [...]

On the “Return” to a “New” Agriculture

(A work in progress)

Every so often, societies, from microbes to men, cyclically find themselves in a time of uncertainty, even panic. It seems to happen much more frequently than people even seem to collectively recall, it seems. Then, the dust clears, and just as cyclically there is a period of new interest — a frontier. [...]

While I’m thinking about typing up this week’s update, I’m also thinking about other small American farms and how they are evolving and surviving and thriving. The Salatin family’s Shenandoah Valley Polyface Farms has an ambitious, inspiring model for future production of meat, eggs and trees.

IN 1961, William and Lucille Salatin moved their young family [...]

New Year’s Eve Post-Fest

The 2007 Oxford word of the year is locavore. More and more people are choosing to support local food producers, and in doing so renew and support regional foodways.

A locavore is someone who eats food grown or produced locally or within a certain radius such as 50, 100, or 150 miles. (from Wikipedia)

also, see [...]