January 19, 2021 – by Laura Phoenix, Farm Table’s Executive Director Happy New Year Farm Table Foundation Family! What a tremendous relief that 2020 is behind us. At the same time, I am experiencing deep gratitude for the lessons we learned, the community who supported us, and for the farmers who nourished and sustained us. […]
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For the past 25 years, I’ve lived just a few miles outside of Amery where, in 2009, I established Z-Orchard.
An excerpt (used with permission) from Amy’s memoir, Give a Girl a Knife: You can generally tell how a woman was raised by the way she wipes down a countertop. Some mothers of my generation shooed their daughters out of the kitchen in hopes that they’d never have to toil in it and gave them little
I was going hunting for the first time in my adult life. Unlike those times as a a boy when I closely follow my uncle Rog along rural Iowa fence rows as he hunted pheasants, this time I would be carrying the gun.
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Coffee is grown in mountainous areas in tropical countries. The best coffee grows at an altitude of about 1,500 meters (4,900 feet) above sea level. In central Honduras, wide valleys divide the region’s many mountain ranges.
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The frost-encrusted grass crunched underfoot this morning as I went out to open the chicken coop. Hearty birds, they immediately ran around, pecking for insects. My cattle weren’t quite as content. They bellowed, demanding to be moved to fresh grass. “Just hold on,” I hollered as I approached their pasture gate.
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September 17, 2020 – by Mike Schut, Farm Table’s Program Director Though COVID hit just six months ago for most of us, our new reality seems so all encompassing that it often feels like years. In that time, of course, many have lost jobs and begun to feel less and less secure. Sometimes the insecurity
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July 21, 2020 An Interview with Emily Hanson of Whetstone Farm The sustained and worldwide protests against police brutality and racial injustice following the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25 have given hope that our society might actually listen and act meaningfully in response to the voices of BIPOC (black, indigenous, and
July 21, 2020 – by Laura Phoenix, Farm Table’s Executive Director Dear friends, I want to express my deep gratitude to you for supporting us through the recent months. We’ve learned that we are all in this together; for that we couldn’t be more thankful. We’ve all gotten closer to our food system during this
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May 15, 2020 by Peter Henry The Covid-19 outbreak has led to unprecedented layoffs, hundreds of thousands of deaths, and weeks, if not months, of home-quarantine for most everyone. Socially, economically, and psychologically, this is the worst crisis since the Depression and World War II: an unexpected and tumultuous turn of events that has gripped
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