Category Archives: Editorials

to market, to market, to buy a fat pig

Within so-called alternative agriculture circles there are turf wars abrew

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Skunks, Snails and the Manured Wedding

We have come to take for granted the most basic of truths, the obligations of family, the possible sanctity of work, the human as a humble piece of a biological universe, the realigning and reaffirming power of beauty, the deep comfort of great friendship, the absolute primacy of life, and the list goes on.

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The Shallow Insistence

…a life of melody, poetry and farming?

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Saving Farmland for What?

Land is being saved BUT for what ultimate purpose?

http://smallfarmersjournal.com/coming-in-the-winter-sfj
Spring 2012 SFJ is out and about!

Spring issue is out. Swaledale Cheese, Haying with Single Horse, Rice, Homemade Butter churn and more.

http://smallfarmersjournal.com/farm-to-school-programs-take-root
FARM TO SCHOOL PROGRAMS TAKE ROOT

All aim to re-connect school kids with healthy local food.

http://smallfarmersjournal.com/sack-sewing-a-lost-art
Sack Sewing, A Lost Art

91 year old Wayne Ryan of Oregon demonstrated the old way of sack sewing during the 2011 Dufur Threshing Bee

http://smallfarmersjournal.com/national-animal-id-wont-go-away
National Animal ID Wont Go Away

We must not give up the fight to deny federal control of small farm production.

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