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Understanding Conventional, Organic, & Regenerative Agriculture: the Farm Behind Your Food

by Michele Payn

When you pick up meat, produce, or grain at the store, you’re making a choice that reaches far beyond your cart – it touches soil, water, and the daily decisions of the farmers who grew it. As an ecologist with more than 25 years supporting land stewardship in Texas and Oklahoma, Amy Hays has worked alongside those producers firsthand. Here’s a clear-eyed look at what conventional, organic, and regenerative agriculture actually mean – for your food and for the land behind it.

Fish farming, fear, and your food

by Michele Payn

Show Notes - Mike Freeze Is “wild” fish somehow...

Chemicals and doctors and food, oh my!

by Michele Payn

Did you know soldiers used to carry flowers into...

Honoring choices in food and farming

by Michele Payn

How do we honor the people who produce our food...

How do you feed a vegan NFL player & a carnivore ballerina?

by Michele Payn

“All of us can manufacture enough guilt in the course of any given day. It certainly doesn’t have to be derived from the foods that we’re eating.” RDN Leslie Bonci brings a reasonable look at nutrition & food labels, plus how athletes can eat for a competitive advantage.

Where fruits grow, bugs go

by Michele Payn

Chemicals are bad, right? Not quite....

What’s growing in your veggie drawer?

by Michele Payn

W My visit to South Africa is a memory I’ll...

I’ve got questions. So do 70 million others.

by Invited Guest Blogger

Jodi Oleen is a Generation Yer who relies on an online network of people she’s built to provide trustworthy information. She seeks out blogs that she trusts, people on Twitter she’s had meaningful conversations with and webpages or Facebook pages that give her a glimpse into things she needs to learn more about. This guest post challenges readers to answer some of the questions asked by Gen Yers.

Going Beyond the Choir: Blog Action & Food Day

by Michele Payn

Going beyond the agriculture choir is easy to talk about, but difficult to execute. You have a chance to jump out of the choir loft and provide perspective THIS Sunday, 10/16. Blog Action Day 2011 is themed food, and coincides with Food Day, put on by activist group Center for Science in the Public Interest. Be sure agriculture is a part of the conversation – and ask others to join in.

Moms & Toddlers: Vegetables & Food Throwing

by mrs

Mac and cheese or broccoli and carrots? Getting a toddler to eat healthy foods is tough. Mom blogger MRS discusses her desire for Blue to a balanced diet, his joy in throwing food – and some of the struggles and successes she’s had getting Blue to eat his vegetables.

Gate to Plate

by Michele Payn

The Best Food in America Comes from Good People...

Frenzy & Freakout Over Flu

by Michele Payn

Media outlets around the global have been in a frenzy with spreading fear about the flu, now known as H1N1. Pandemic is the best way to describe it – and I’m not talking about the sickness, but the sensationalism surrounding the mutated virus. You cannot get this virus from pork or pigs, contrary to misperceptons formed around the original name. More than 500,000 people around the world die annually from common season flu.

Selling Safari Style!

by Michele Payn

While enjoying game drives, a lion breeding farm, and cheetah research facility in South Africa, I realized wildlife and selling have many similarities. A few parallels can be drawn between salesmanship and a South African safari.

How Now, Brown Cow? A Look at Checkoffs

by Michele Payn

Commodity check-off programs are an excellent tool to both educate consumers about various ag commodities and increase consumption. Yet how can we make the the most of them?

Dear Food Consumer

by Michele Payn

How much do you know about where the food on your Thanksgiving table comes from? This is a great time to consider those who produce the food on our overflowing plates, particularly in a year that has seen food prices increase 6% according to the Economic Research Service.