March 12, 2010
Farming & Agriculture
Another result of our homogenized industrial food system is the declining number of varieties of apples commercially grown as Gary Nabhan writes on Grist.com,
You’ve heard the hackneyed phrase “as American as apple pie.” But America is not taking care of the apples — or the orchard-keepers — that have nourished us for centuries. In 1900, [...]
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March 12, 2010
Farming & Agriculture
I am fortunate to live in the mid-Willamette Valley of Oregon. Fortunate in that, it is literally a bread basket of food. Someone did some research into what could be grown here and over 80% of the food consumed here could be grown here. Obviously tropical things like avocados, mangoes and bananas can’t, but most [...]
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