The solution to high food prices? Grow your own.
Byline: GUEST VIEWPOINT By Sarah Cantril and Aleta Miller For The Register-Guard Every time you go to the grocery store, it costs more to buy bread, milk, eggs and produce - even if your last shopping trip was just a few days earlier! Many of the costs...

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...

Vegetable hallelujahs.
Barbara Kingsolver's ode to local eating, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (HarperCollins, $26.95), has already received plenty of plaudits. Take away husband Steven L. Hopp's practical sidebars on the benefits of family farms, and daughter Camille's journal-entry-esque asides on canning and birthdays (with recipes!) and it's...

Whole Foods Market Donates $25,000 for Midwest Farmers.
FOOD AND BEVERAGE CLOSE-UP-12 September 2007-Whole Foods Market Donates $25,000 for Midwest Farmers(C)2007 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Violent storms in late August have led to the decimation of a number of organic and family farms in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Whole Foods Market Midwest has joined a collaboration...

Agri-scam; Wasteful farm subsidy system cries out for reform.
COLUMN: IN OUR OPINION It's no secret that federal agricultural tax breaks and subsidies, conceived as compassionate aid to family farms, long ago devolved into a system of corporate welfare for agribusiness, big tobacco, sugar-beet growers, absentee gentleman farmers and a myriad of other interests. A new...

Brilliant Blue Develops Unified Web Brand Plus E-Commerce and Web-Update Tools for Alamo Group Inc. and Subsidiaries.
IRVINE, Calif., Jan. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- How do you develop a unified web brand for a family of two dozen companies that design, build and sell products for agricultural, industrial, commercial and government markets -- and then create for the same companies a common set of e-commerce and web-update...

Attack of the balloon people: how America's food culture and agricultural policies threaten the food security of the poor, farmers, and indigenous peoples of the world.
TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION II. DOMESTIC PROBLEMS A. How (Much and What)America Eats 1. The Balloon People 2. A Brief History of (Dinner) Time B. Gone is the Family Farm: How America Raises and Grows Its Food C. The Farm Lobby: How America Regulates Agriculture D. Free Cheese:...

FROM FARM TO TABLE.
Byline: Sherri Buri McDonald The Register-Guard JUNCTION CITY - Months ago, 70 local families put down the cash that helped Deck Family Farm raise a rafter of turkeys. Now, in the waning days before Thanksgiving, those families are cashing in on their "turkey futures." ...

Try locally grown when you dine out.
Byline: Barbara M. Houle COLUMN: TABLE HOPPIN' Sustainable agriculture, the process of staying in balance with nature, has gained momentum in recent years as more chefs put locally grown food on the table. David Vadenais of Dole & Bailey in Woburn, a family-owned...