Improving the Farm or Practicing Sustainable Agriculture?
I’d been to the Clay estate in Ashland, now part of Lexington, Kentucky, many times before. Its grounds, with their towering trees, make a lovely place to walk. Last week,…
Read morePuzzles about the family farm
On his blog Applied Mythology, Steve Savage has a nice post on farmers in the US and Canada, with graphs showing how their numbers have dwindled and how efficient they…
Read moreButter for Industry. Or Non-Food Uses of Farm Products
From Nick Trachet of the Brussel Nieuws The county of Flanders was in the Ancien Régime known as Butter Country. The peasants made and sold butter and lived on butter…
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