High Country News http://www.hcn.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 15. Yes, I'm gonna eat that! http://www.hcn.org/issues/234/13378 In Coming Home to Eat, Lebanese-American writer Gary Paul Nabham describes how eating "local" food for the first time in the Fertile Crescent convinces him to try to "eat locally" in Tucson, Ariz. No publisher Ed Marston Crops 2010-02-05T08:54:49Z News Article Wonder hemp http://www.hcn.org/issues/36/1082 A review of "Industrial Hemp" touts potential of growing the currently illegal plant for products including paper, paint, and even dynamite. No publisher Staff Crops 2010-02-05T08:42:16Z News Article With liberty, justice, and locally produced food for all http://www.hcn.org/issues/318/16191 In Fields That Dream: A Journey to the Roots of Our Food, Jenny Kurzweil illustrates how agricultural injustices can be combated by purchasing food from socially conscious local producers No publisher Annie Dawid Crops Jenny Kurzweil Fields that Dream sustainable agriculture agribusiness corporate agriculture farming organic farming pesticides migrant workers Andrew Stout farmworkers Steve and Beverly Phillips antibiotics dairy farms family farms 2010-02-05T09:33:14Z News Article Where free trade is more than an acronym http://www.hcn.org/issues/226/11232 Pulling onions alongside a Mexican field worker, the writer describes the hard work and meager pay for a product that will sell for 50 times what workers are paid. No publisher Michelle Nijhuis Crops 2010-02-05T08:53:26Z News Article What's in your organic burrito? http://www.hcn.org/issues/175/5666 The Department of Agriculture has released its new, proposed national organic standards for food in the U.S. No publisher Catherine Lutz Crops 2010-02-05T09:00:33Z News Article What to do about "Frankenfoods'? http://www.hcn.org/issues/173/5600 Two natural-foods chains - Wild Oats Market and Whole Foods Market - are banning genetically engineered foods from their stores. No publisher Catherine Lutz Crops 2010-02-05T09:00:01Z News Article University gets smart about food http://www.hcn.org/issues/284/15059 The University of Montana’s Farm to College program works with farmers and ranchers to bring local food products into the university’s Dining Services No publisher Brianna Randall Health Education Crops University of Montana Missoula Crissie McMullan Shelly Conner University of Montana Dining Services Farm to College program local food sustainable farming organic beef 2010-02-05T09:21:31Z News Article Universities lag on organics http://www.hcn.org/issues/313/16011 Montana’s land-grant universities have so far shown little interest in promoting organic agriculture No publisher Sam Western Education Land Grant Universities Crops Montana State University David Oien Bruce Maxwell weed ecology organic agriculture industrial farming agribusiness Dow Syngenta Monsanto university funding Organic Farming Research Foundation USDA Perry Miller Robert Boettcher wheat product 2010-02-05T08:56:26Z News Article Troubled harvest: Washington's fruit industry is a hotbed of federal immigration policy gone wrong http://www.hcn.org/issues/193/10168 Farmers, government officials and immigrant advocacy groups are at odds over the best way to deal with the burgeoning population of illegal immigrants picking Washington state's fruit crop. No publisher Rebecca Clarren Crops 2010-02-05T08:33:05Z News Article Three agricultural fallacies: The poet laureate of cultivated land challenges the "experts' http://www.hcn.org/issues/23/667 Wendell Berry challenges the experts of agribusiness. No publisher Wendell Berry Crops 2010-02-05T08:48:41Z News Article The merry — and meditative — farmer http://www.hcn.org/issues/326/16434 In Blithe Tomato, Mike Madison writes engagingly about working the land on a small farm in California’s Central Valley No publisher Laura Paskus Communities Western Culture Crops Blithe Tomato Mike Madison essays anthologies small farmers farmers markets California gophers tractors lilacs Central Valley Travis Air Force Base native grasses small towns communities rural life autobiography personal experience memoi 2011-11-21T22:33:49Z News Article The hope of a freshly planted field http://www.hcn.org/issues/186/6062 The author remembers her childhood in Bozeman, Mont., where no one thought her mother would ever succeed in growing sweet corn. No publisher Jody Holzworth Crops 2010-02-05T09:15:31Z News Article The disappearing farm: Can cooperatives keep rural people rooted in the plains? http://www.hcn.org/issues/157/5075 On the Great Plains, some beleagured farmers are pinning their economic hopes on local cooperatives, such as a pasta-making factory in Leeds, N.D. No publisher Dustin Solberg Crops 2010-02-05T10:11:18Z News Article Thanks to the farmers http://www.hcn.org/issues/313/16002 Supporting sustainable, local, organic food production is one way to reduce our ecological impact and restore the West’s rural communities No publisher Greg Hanscom Crops Greg and Tara Hanscom Thanksgiving dinners organic food local farmers rural life food production eating sustainable agriculture Purple Haze Garlic Farm Stinky Blooms Flower Farm Sam Western Kerry Brophy Brodie Farquhar Betsy Marston 2010-02-05T08:56:22Z News Article Sowing the red suns of August http://www.hcn.org/issues/88/2727 Even when the tomatoes freeze and the deer trespass, gardening serves its own high purpose. No publisher Sean Gillihan Crops 2010-02-05T09:10:59Z News Article