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A Tale of Two Counties
Grist has launched a farming and food series, with a lead-off piece by Tom Philpott looking at the Mars and Venus of industrial and sustainable agriculture in Iowa. Highly recommended.
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Original post by Samuel Fromartz and software by Elliott Back
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Gretta’s Film on Flooded Organic Farms
Here’s the short film of the flooded Midwest farmers by Madison filmmaker Gretta Wing Miller.
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Original post by Samuel Fromartz and software by Elliott Back
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Farmers, Flooding and Whole Foods’ Mea Culpa
By Samuel Fromartz
You probably saw the pictures of flooded farms, overflowing rivers, and the rain that swamped the Upper Midwest last month.
What you might not know is that organic vegetable farmers in the region had severe losses. I knew one of them, Jack Hedin, who owns Featherstone Farm, in southeastern Minnesota.
His farm is nestled in […]
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