Food & Farm Archives - Page 22 of 57

01/21/12

Stuck in the Middle or Gone Over the Edge?

Late Friday night, I read a blog post on Jeff Fowle’s blog about winter weather and the differences between locals being prepared and others seemingly careless. As I watched current weather reports and saw tweets from friends in the Pacific Northwest indicating they were fairly home-bound due to the storms hitting them, I thought about how many times I’ve seen similar… Read More

01/20/12

VIDEO: CNN Headline News Issues with Jane Velez-Mitchell Discusses Factory Farms, Here are Real Farms

Tonight, after I drove through freezing rain to get home, I just settled in on the sofa to relax before eating dinner. The fact that people who work with livestock on America’s family farms were getting a chance to speak to animal abuse and undercover videos. Kay Johnson Smith of the Animal Ag Alliance was on the show. A friend… Read More

01/10/12

The Farmer who Grew the Greens for My Salad

Last Friday, I had a unique opportunity to learn about Hawaiian agriculture directly from an expert — a farmer from the windward side of Oahu! Dean took time to tell me about his farm on video. 🙂 And I wrote a blog post for the group hosting the meeting I was at talking about some of a program Hawaii has in… Read More

01/03/12

Changing Jobs Means A Change in Decades of Routine Career

This is the first time in decades that I haven’t started my professional year with a trip to the Beltwide Cotton Conferences, yes I am so old as to have decades old routines. Go ahead mock me. I can take it. For as long as I can remember, I was heading to the cotton industry’s biggest event. It is the… Read More

12/31/11

Making a Meaningful Personal New Year’s Resolution

I don’t make New Year’s resolutions very often but this year, I thought it would be good for me to share what I’m resolving to do because I know some of you will hold me accountable!. New Year’s resolutions have sort of become the butt of jokes and it leads lots of psychologists to really look at resolutions. So I’m… Read More

12/30/11

Have you met a starchitarian? Or do you wonder what that even is?

This fall, while I was at an ag industry meeting in San Antonio, a group of friends invited me to go to a steak house with them. As soon as they mentioned the idea, my body told me it wanted some red meat so I was definitely in! With that mindset, I was all a go for steak when we… Read More

Stuck in the Middle or Gone Over the Edge?

VIDEO: CNN Headline News Issues with Jane Velez-Mitchell Discusses Factory Farms, Here are Real Farms

The Farmer who Grew the Greens for My Salad

Changing Jobs Means A Change in Decades of Routine Career

Making a Meaningful Personal New Year’s Resolution

Have you met a starchitarian? Or do you wonder what that even is?

Tell Me…. Would you knock on the door?

Thinking about Memphis Schools, the Memphis 13 for Black History Month

Observing Martin Luther King Day Way Before It was a National Holiday