I want Upton Sinclair’s change. I want God’s change. I want the change that gets us out of thinking and living “better grab all that I can get ‘cuz there won’t be enough” and into trusting the life-giving Commandments to love God and to love our neighbor.

UPDATE: House proposes Farm Bill that would cut funding for nutrition programs and hurt conservation efforts Current negotiations in Farm Bill conference would reduce funding to nutrition and conservation programs The House and the Senate each passed a farm bill…

Today, I just can’t not write about pesticides! Sometimes the world screams at you about something specific. Right now, it is our tendency as a species to poison the very stuff that keeps us alive, the thin layer of nutrients…

For a couple of decades, Community Supported Agriculture programs (CSAs) have been a way for families to partner with farmers and gardeners to get a weekly supply of fresh produce during the growing season. Families or individuals purchase a membership…

The little time keeper in the upper right corner of my computer screen tells me that I have about 3 more minutes before my voting station, just down the street at the local grade school, opens up. I’m on West…

African Food Basket Founder Anan Lololi. Photo by R. Jeanette Martin This is a great story from Now Toronto with audio clips of youth participants at the bottom of the column. “For 300 years we were on plantations, so there…

Does your mouth water when you look at the scene on the left? “Rethinking the Meat-Guzzler” (below) provides much food for thought (gristle for the noggin?). Seems we clearly need to take another look at meat. Click on the charts…

For me and people around the world, the Canadian farmer Percy Schmeiser became a hero when he stood up to Monsanto. After the company’s genetically engineered (GE) seeds blew onto Schmeiser’s canola farm and contaminated his fields, the multinational sued…

This is my first effort at making my own bacon. It is fresh from about two hours in the oven after spending seven days in a salt/sugar/pink salt dry brine in my refrigerator. It already tastes very good. (It’s not…

Today Acting Agriculture Secretary Chuck Conner hosted a conference call with bloggers. The Presbyterian Hunger Program (USA)/foodandfaithblog.org was invited and I ended up being one of a handful of people talking with Sec. Conner. The Agriculture Secretary reiterated the administration’s…