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…

While I was squatted down near the floor, reading the organic (but of course) seed packets at the bottom of the rack (mmm, Black Plum Past Tomato – Russian variety that produces elongated, deep-mahogany to bronze fruit with a rich complex flavor that is concentrated when cooked down and also delicious for fresh eating, pretty much everything I want in a tomato…) when a woman suddenly walked up to me and asked with excitement in her voice, “You’re a gardener, right?” as if I were a rock star or an author or something cool like that.

Michael Pollan was here last week in Louisville promoting his new book, “In Defense of Food” to a sell-out audience in the Kentucky Center. Food is hot! You can catch much of what he covered in this interview on CBC…

Most of us are in blissful denial about the genetically altered “foodstuffs” we put into our mouths in the United States, but the absurdity of the situation is too much for me to contain myself. NOTE: If you are enjoying…

If you don’t like the weather in ____________, just wait a minute. I’ve lived in four different states that each claimed this folksy quip as their own pronouncement of the unpredictability of their weather. Each attributed this to a favorite…

Mark Winne is a colleague who I’ve gotten to know through the Community Food Security Coalition activities. His messages about the injustices inherent in our food system are timely and important for those of us hoping and working for a…

Well, it might take 45 minutes the first time. But Fritz used the recipe from Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal, Vegetable Miracle book and it came out fine. I keep saying I’m going to make it over this Christmas break, but reading,…

Hillary and big meat? We’ll get to that in a minute. John Edwards, for his part, has opposed factory farming in North Carolina, the state with the highest number of hog factory farms in the country. In Iowa last week,…