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Lara commented on the post, My Valentines Day wonder moment. 3 months ago
What a beautiful and profound experience.
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Lara wrote a new post, Plight of the Rural Farmer, Plight of the Planet 4 months, 1 week ago
Kentucky in Winter’s icy grip….
We may not realize it, but the interstate highway system hides a multitude of sins, though a few cannot be adequately disguised.
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Lara started the forum topic Monsanto and the threat to organic gardeners and dairies in the group Why does our food have serial numbers?: 1 year, 8 months ago
This article is reprinted from Twilight Earth and is vital to understanding what is going on in the corporate agri-businesses. We will have much more to say about Monsanto as soon as the documents relative to their operation are received from the company and the USDA. Peace Alfalfa at the Eleventh Hour Red Clover (Trifolium [...]
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Lara started the forum topic EcoHearth: How to Enjoy Nature with Your Kids in the group Fascinating Things To Think About: 1 year, 8 months ago
“If nature came in a bottle, you can bet that every pediatrician would prescribe it. Time spent in nature can improve a child’s attention, boost creativity, reduce stress and provide a host of other benefits. It’s also good for parents. Exploring nature together can strengthen family bonds. And you don’t need to trek to the [...]
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Lara started the forum topic Smallest Farmers Key To Feeding World's Poorest in the group Why does our food have serial numbers?: 1 year, 8 months ago
Post by Michael » Thu Feb 11, 2010 10:33 pm Writing in the journal Science, researchers note that helping developing countries’ small farmers find ways to make better use of marginal land and cope with overfarmed fields is key to feeings the world’s poorest people. Cynthia Graber reports. “How can we feed the world? It’s [...]
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Lara posted an update in the group Why does our food have serial numbers?: 1 year, 9 months ago
While on the road to Kentucky we saw several signs from different agricultural corporations (that phrase seems a little oxymoronic, or at the very least, paradoxical) beside crops ranging from corn to soybeans to cotton. What I found weird was that all the crops were designated by alphanumeric sequences of one sort or another, not names. My…[Read more]
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Lara posted an update in the group Why does our food have serial numbers?: 1 year, 9 months ago
Why is it that each of those corporate farm signs is followed closely by a corporate ‘No Trespassing’ sign–not a personal one? Does that mean that it, the corporation, owns the land?
If so, then is the farmer who works those fields reduced to being essentially a tenant farmer on what was, until recently, his family’s land? If that’s…[Read more] -
Lara created the group Why does our food have serial numbers? 1 year, 9 months ago
i read this piece a few times because it is so rich with direct presentation of what the realities are and what we will be and are facing in regard to producing food on a small scale, sustainable level in comparison with the corporate bloody/poison-soaked financial support for the industrial agri-biz that is destroying our soil, our quality of…[Read more]