Past but not over: 2011 MOSES Organic Farming Conference, La Crosse WI
The 2011 MOSES Organic Farming Conference was held this year in La Crosse, Wisconsin, February 24-26, 2011. Our contributor, Drue Fergison of Ralph’s Pretty Good …
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Tom Stearns, Founder of High Mowing Organic Seeds
Tom Stearns talks about co-marketing, organic farming as a business, scale – small is beautiful, but medium is good too – and collaborating with other small/medium farmers.
Organic Valley Delivers Bonus Cash Distribution
Organic Valley, one of the largest marketing co-operatives in the world, continues to demonstrate that the co-operative model can be extremely successful. In the face of a challenging economy, the co-op exceeded its annual sales growth goal for 2010 and distributed a bonus payment to the farmer-owners.
Can Big Food Be Local Food?
So can local be big? Before I answer that question, it might be a good idea to revisit what we mean by local. Some good food policy advocates (including me) are substituting the term “community-based” for “local” to signify that local food systems are based on relationships rooted in place.
The Compassionate Carnivore by Catherine Friend
Friend approaches her subject from the perspective of a farmer. She participates actively in raising lambs and ducks that eventually wind up on people’s tables, her own included. Given the environmental impact of animal husbandry, many people question if eating meat can be sustainable in this era of global warming.
The Earth’s Best Story by Ron and Arnie Koss
The Earth’s Best Story tells how Ron and Arnie Koss succeeded in creating the first nationally distributed organic foods company to sit next to its mainstream competition on supermarket shelves-a step that revolutionized and empowered the organic-foods movement as a whole-and benefited hundreds of farmers as well as the millions of babies whose very first foods have been organically grown, thanks to Earth’s Best.
A New Generation of Farmers – Young, Educated, Energetic
When you were 5, what did you want to be when you grew up? A fireman, a ballet dancer, a doctor? Maybe even a farmer? Over the last several generations, somewhere between the ages 5 and 15, farmer fell off the list of careers for most Americans.
Stirring It Up: How to Make Money and Save the World by Gary Hirshberg
Gary Hirshberg is the CE-Yo of Stonyfield Farm Yogurt. In Stirring It Up, Hirshberg describes how he built a successful $300 million-per-year business by incorporating environmental principles and practices, and how other companies can accomplish this, too.