“Sugar cane pressing with a water buffalo.” Okinawa, Japan. June 2004. Photo credit: Flickr CC via Globalism Pictures This post is to point you towards a great photo series on sugar and salt from “The Big Picture” over at the Boston Globe. The series shows us the labor involved so that these two food staples [...]
Last week I had the opportunity to visit with Colorado State faculty member, Dr. Ajay Jha, who travels extensively to help create ideal small farming operations. His primary objective is to find profitable models for sustainable, nutritious, local urban and small acreage food production. He feels this is where the need is since half of [...]
In this series, Barbara, a gardening friend who has a wealth of knowledge to share with us and has graciously done an extensive interview for this site, today tells us about raising chickens, having a U-Pick garden for customers, the choice to raise goats, and her recommendations of perennial flowers and berries. (Note that I took all [...]
