Hank writes:
I write. I fish. I dig earth, raise plants, live for food and kill wild animals. I drink bourbon, Barolo or Budweiser with equal relish and wish I owned a farm. But most of all I think daily about new ways to cook and eat anything that walks, flies, swims, crawls, skitters, jumps –
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There is nothing more fun for me than learning. And when I can’t learn from a person, reading a book or scanning the Internet is a great alternative. I think there are dozens of essential books for beginning small farmers. Nothing replaces actual experience on the land, and the advice from more experienced
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The first chicken egg since December.
I’m packing and organizing for some media work at Farm Aid in St. Louis tomorrow. I’ve also been working on fall projects and tonight we’re expecting a low in the mid 30’s. Fall is quickly arriving. For a brief post, I’m sharing a photo of the daily egg harvest.
I had the pleasure of spending Saturday with nearly 200 people concerned about the future of small farm life. A vibrant dairy farmer in Iowa, Jerry Harvey, organized a “Dairy Farmers Rally for Fair Prices” in Manchester, Iowa. I learned of the event via Twitter and offered to help show my support by taking some
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The Thursday New York Times article by Michael Moss raises interesting questions about food safety, especially as more and more foods are manufactured using multiple ingredients. Moss shares:
Increasingly, the corporations that supply Americans with processed foods are unable to guarantee the safety of their ingredients. In this case, ConAgra could not pinpoint which of the
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The warmer weather may find you spending more time behind the wheel of your tractor. We’ve put together a list of the top ten songs about life on a tractor to help you tractor chores go faster.
WASHINGTON — On Friday, Michelle Obama will begin digging up a patch of White House lawn to plant a vegetable garden, the first since Eleanor Roosevelt’s victory garden in World War II. There will be no beets (the president doesn’t like them) but arugula will make the cut.
via Obamas Prepare to Plant White House Vegetable
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Hank Shaw, at Hunter Angler Gardener Cook offers a look into the world of “honest food” as he describes it. A well versed writer, sportsman, and site editor about About.com’s Fish and Seafood Cooking site, he bios himself:
I am especially interested in those meats and veggies that people don’t eat much any more, like venison
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Kim Severson and Andrew Martin share this reminder about food labeling.
Although the rules governing organic food require health inspections and pest-management plans, organic certification technically has nothing to do with food safety.
via The ‘Organic’ Stamp – Does It Mean That Food Is Safer? – NYTimes.com.
Be sure to listen the “Backstory” Multimedia audio link that accompanies
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