After ‘Super Size Me’: In Conversation with Morgan Spurlock
2010年11月16日 · In 2004, Morgan Spurlock ‘s documentary film Super Size Me debuted. In it, Spurlock eats McDonald’s food for 30 days straight. This extreme experiment sought to document the adverse health effects of the all-to-common practice of over-eating fast food, using himself as test subject. Indeed, Spurlock gained weight, scared his doctors when ...
The Co-op Farming Model Might Help Save America’s Small Farms
2018年10月3日 · Farming. Young Farmers. Across the U.S.—from New England to California—a small but growing movement of farmers is foregoing traditional farm ownership in favor of a cooperative model. In Maine, four Somali Bantu refugees raise crops on shared land at New Roots Cooperative Farm, growing both regional and Somali produce.
From Desk Job to Farm Life: Shaye Elliott’s Life as a Homesteader
June 23, 2017. Read more about. A few years ago, Shaye Elliott, feeling trapped in her day job, decided to take a leap of faith. She and her husband packed up and left their city life to a five-acre homestead in central Washington where they raise their own dairy cows, chickens, pigs, sheep, and turkeys, and grow too many vegetables to count.
Op-ed: What I Learned from White Oak Pastures—and What Other …
2022年2月24日 · My husband John and I moved from San Francisco to Iowa in 2019 to take over his family’s fifth-generation, 540-acre farm, raising cattle and goats on pasture through rotational grazing. What drew us to Southern Georgia was a four-day retreat with the Center for Agricultural Resilience (CFAR), an offshoot of White Oak Pastures (WOP), a large farm known for its …
Insect Farms are Scaling Up—and Crossing the Atlantic—in a Play …
2022年12月20日 · What insect farmers collect is valuable biomass that contains as much as 40 percent protein and 30 percent fat. And all in about two weeks. Now, some leading European insect-farming companies are betting on growing the opportunity to turn this biomass into feed for fish, livestock, and pets by expanding to the U.S.
Is Your Grass-Fed Beef for Real? Here’s How to Tell and ... - Civil Eats
2015年7月1日 · Grass-fed beef is also seen as nutritionally superior to its corn-fed counterparts, thanks to the omega-3 fatty acids that cows ingest when they graze on clover and other grasses. Grass-fed burger chains are popping up all over the country, and even Carl’s Jr. began offering a grass-fed burger earlier this year.
How The Fry Bread House, a Mainstay of Indigenous Cuisine, …
2020年5月11日 · Now, The Fry Bread House and its staff of 16—made up of people from the O’odham, Navajo, Hopi, Yaqui, and Apache nations, among others—face an uncertain future. And this leading light of Indigenous cuisine isn’t alone. Across the Southwest this spring, Indigenous eateries have shut down, while others are barely holding on.
The Nation’s First Regenerative Dairy Works with Nature to Heal …
2021年9月7日 · Earlier this year, Alexandre Farm became the first dairy in the U.S. to become “certified regenerative”—receiving both the Land to Market verification (EOV) and the Regenerative Organic Certified (ROC) seal for their 100 percent grass-fed milk and yogurt.. It took the Alexandres more than three decades to fine-tune their system of building up soil, restoring …
A New California Law Will Create a Lot More Compost—but Will it …
2022年3月2日 · The new law is seen as groundbreaking, a significant step in combating climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions, producing fuel, and creating compost that can help sequester carbon in soils. But compost advocates say the law could make it difficult for farmers to access the so-called “brown gold” at scale, thwarting efforts to ...
Menhaden in the Chesapeake Bay Face an Uncertain Future
2024年2月20日 · The last big company that’s catching them disputes the evidence and is pushing back. Menhaden are caught with pound pound nets and hauled aboard Captain Boo Polly’s workboat on the Chesapeake Bay, west of Barren Island in Dorchester County, Maryland, on June 27, 2020. (Photo by Carlin Stiehl/Chesapeake Bay Program) Off the rocky coast of ...