Urban farmer for hire: what if you could have your very own backyard farm--for the price of a weekly box of vegetables? Allison Arieff finds a new way to turn a forlorn patch into an edible Eden.
THIS IS THE STORY of two mortgage brokers. One gave me a half-percent less interest than I'd been paying on my home loan; the other gave me kohlrabi. But let me explain. There I was again, staring out the window at the bald patch of land in...

Niman Ranch Honors Oprah for Highlighting Humanely Raised Meats.
FOOD AND BEVERAGE CLOSE-UP-15 October 2008-Niman Ranch Honors Oprah for Highlighting Humanely Raised Meats(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Niman Ranch said that it applauds The Oprah Winfrey Show for highlighting humanely, sustainably raised meats. The program was prompted by an upcoming vote on a California...

Dagoba Serves Up New Organic Chocolate Baking Bars.
FOOD AND BEVERAGE CLOSE-UP-17 September 2008-Dagoba Serves Up New Organic Chocolate Baking Bars(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Dagoba Organic Chocolate, known for its exotic flavor infusions and rich, dark chocolate bars, announced that it is now crafting an organic cacao for culinary pursuits with a new line...

Produce and fruit growers answer the bell; Farm-to-school plan local.
Byline: Bradford L. Miner Fall has always been one of Mark Tuttle's favorite times of the year. And no wonder, when Breezeland Orchards in Warren produces a bumper crop of apples and peaches. For the second consecutive year, some of the orchard's bounty...

Food and Everyday Life on Kentucky Family Farms, 1920-1950.
Food and Everyday Life on Kentucky Family Farms, 1920-1950. By John van Willigen and Anne van Willigen. Kentucky Remembered: An Oral History Series. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2006. Pp. xx, 260. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8131-2387-5.) Food and Everyday Life on Kentucky Family Farms, 1920-1950 documents rural...

Report: U.S. industrial farming endangers health, environment: practices promote disease, contamination.
They supply much of the foods people worldwide eat every day, but industrial animal farms are also home to dangerous public health and environmental threats, says a new report that describes such risks as "unacceptable" and charts a path toward sustainable farming. Far from yesterday's humble family...

Precious steppe; Mongolian nomadic pastoralists in pursuit of the market. (reprint, 2006).
9780739128077 Precious steppe; Mongolian nomadic pastoralists in pursuit of the market. (reprint, 2006) Bruun, Ole. Lexington Books 2008 251 pages $29.95 Paperback AsiaWorld GN635 This is a paperbound reprint...

What's for Dinner from the Farmers' Market.
Byline: Maryana Vollstedt For The Register-Guard CORRECTION(Ran June 19, 2008):Entree: The Lane County Farmers' Market at Eighth Avenue and Oak Street is open from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. Thursdays. Incorrect hours of operation for Thursdays were listed in the "What's for Dinner?" column on Page E1...

The Prince Edward Island lands protection act: the art of the possible.
Running through the history of [Prince Edward Island] ... is a strong iron thread ... of permanence and stability ... made up of our family farms and the agricultural community made possible by the family farm.... The very nature and character of this province is built upon the nature...

Dwelling Places: A Novel.
Dwelling Places: A Novel. By Vinita Hampton Wright. HarperSanFrancisco, 352 pp., $13.95 paperback. The Iowa farming community where this novel is set is in deep pain. Family farms have been lost to hard times. A way of life passed on from generation to generation can never be...