Do you know where your food comes from? Have you considered the care that goes into your Thanksgiving plate? Not by the hands that cooked it, but the farmers growing your food. One of the nation’s leading food and farm advocates, Michele Payn, says that farmers in America today are actually a minority group that…
Travel through airports gave a dairy judging team the opportunity to answer people’s questions about agriculture. Guest blogger Laura Padget learns that spreading news about agriculture to many people, simply sharing a fun fact with a friend or having a conversation at DFW, every little bit matters.” Even in unconventional locations, it’s easy to be an agvocate.
Small meat processor and farmer Amy Sipes writes an insightful guest post on the need for agriculture and non-agriculturists to meet in the middle. She points to the faults of the ag community as wells as the demands of those trying to make farming a fictional fairyland.
This guest blogger mom knows the holidays will be hectic with a toddler in the house and bakes her yeast rolls early. If you love to bake or enjoy bread made from wheat flour grown by farmers, take a look at this post for a delicious recipe and see baby Blue enjoying the delicious rolls.
A reflection of international travel from Michele over the last 10 years. Read about feeding a lion cub, impressions from former communist states, four-wheeling on the beach, picking wine grapes, helping agriculture educators in Egypt – and the harsh reality of seeing millions of hungry people.
Feel like you’re drowning in information in today’s technological age? Guest blogger John Blue notes from Google CEO that it only takes two days now to create as much information as it did from the dawn of civilization to 2003. How do you wade through it to make business decisions? Great ideas for anyone on information and search engine overload.
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