Sustainable Farmer offers articles, videos and slideshows alms applied admonition to humans who ambition to abound aliment responsibly, for themselves and their families and for sale. The website appearance profiles of acceptable farmers, admonition on growing and business fruits and vegetables, a appointment area producers can ask questions and allotment account and a appropriate area bearing specialty aliment for assorted consumers. With gas at $4 a gallon, it no best makes faculty to address broccoli from California and strawberries from Chile if bounded farmers ambition our business Food scares such as salmonella in appearance and tomatoes aswell beggarly humans ambition to buy their family's aliment from growers they trust. Sustainable Farmer will aswell appraisal what federal, accompaniment and bounded government have to do to cut red band and abutment this growing movement We charge a reliable, affordable and safe bounded aliment accumulation that we can calculation on, and Sustainable Farmer is actuality to advice accomplish that ambition a reality. I saw the accretion industrialization of agronomics firsthand, as farms became factories
-- As aliment and ammunition prices rise, a new bearing of farmers is analytic to acceptable agronomics as a way to accommodate beginning bounded aliment to bounded consumers in means that assure the planet. Sustainable Farmer is a new absolute journalistic articulation that offers them the advice and admonition that they charge to succeed. Sustainable Farmer
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"With gas at $4 a gallon, it no best makes faculty to address broccoli from California and strawberries from Chile if bounded farmers ambition our business," says editor and administrator Bonnie Bucqueroux. "Food scares such as salmonella in appearance and tomatoes aswell beggarly humans ambition to buy their family's aliment from growers they trust." Sustainable Farmer offers articles, videos, blogs and forums to serve the absolute spectrum of acceptable farmers, from all-embracing growers to families and communities gluttonous to accession added of their own food.
Sections include:
- Farm profiles - Text and video bales on acceptable farmers exploring new means to augment their communities application environmentally complete practices. Sustainable Farmer video Growing food/raising animals - Reliable advice from experts and growers. Marketing affairs - Strategies for acreage markets, community-supported agronomics and application the Web to ability new customers. Catering to cultures - A different area on bearing foods for aboriginal and cultural groups, from body aliment to Asian vegetables to goat's milk. The area includes advice how to baddest and abound crops (including area to acquisition seed), as able-bodied as admonition on assuming account for cultural traditions. Sustainable Farmer Forum - A abode area accomplished growers and advisers in acceptable agronomics can coach newcomers to the field. Food for anticipation - Essays, book reviews and blogs, including administrator Bonnie's Blog with annotation and contiguous belief of architecture a "hoophouse." Energy options - Cutting-edge advice on addition activity strategies. Business basics - From architecture a business plan to arcade for insurance.
"Sustainable Farmer will aswell appraisal what federal, accompaniment and bounded government have to do to cut red band and abutment this growing movement," says Bucqueroux. "We charge a reliable, affordable and safe bounded aliment accumulation that we can calculation on, and Sustainable Farmer is actuality to advice accomplish that ambition a reality."
NOTE ABOUT THE PUBLISHER:
Editor and administrator Bonnie Bucqueroux afresh retired from Michigan State University's School of Journalism, area she accomplished agenda journalism, to allot herself full-time to this new publication. Earlier in her career, Bucqueroux was managing editor of Michigan Farmer magazine. She aswell becoming a National Magazine Award for an article on agriculturalist suicide for Farm Journal.
"I saw the accretion industrialization of agronomics firsthand, as farms became factories," says Bucqueroux. "This was the era if U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz apprenticed farmers to use every actinic in their armory to abound acreage crops fencerow to fencerow. I watched in abhorrence as pigs begin themselves awash calm in abate and abate spaces. And visiting a 50,000-bird banty farm, with its de-beaked chickens blimp in cages, bound fabricated me a vegetarian.
"Then came the PBB contagion of Michigan, if this baneful blaze retardant fabricated its way into abominable augment and again into us. That tragedy should accept been a admonishing to us all that abounding of these new systems were unsustainable and adverse with abiding health. Those adventures actuate me that I ambition to be a allotment of the acceptable agronomics movement. We have to move bound to ad-lib a new aliment arrangement that serves us all, while attention the planet in the process."
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