When a Friend Needs Help...
A quirk of the weather (thanks, Climate Weirdness!), and hungry migrating birds can clean out a crop in a matter of hours! Help a friend: Make a donation at Nash and Patty’s Go Fund Me Page.
 Instead of this…  Nash’s has this… Patty and Nash Huber, Nash’s Organic Produce, made it through the February snowstorms only to have hungry trumpeter swans, geese, and ducks strip their spring vegetable crop down to just stems. And 12 years of farmer Nash’s breeding work to develop superior strains of purple sprouting broccoli and Italian cauliflower are gone.
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Book of the Month
Stand Together or Starve Alone: Unity and Chaos in the U.S. Food Movement
By Mark Winne
“The Food Movement” is a pretty big concept – it can incorporate anything and everything from farming and food production to distribution, marketing, and retail sales. Then toss in farmers markets, food co-ops, and CSAs (Community Supported Agriculture) and it’s a topic that is hard to get your mind around.
In Stand Together or Starve Alone, Mark Winne uses the term “food movement” as an over-arching concept, however he rounds it up into a more straightforward description: “Food Security.” Read on...
A Video You Don't Want to Miss!
Allen Williams is a 6th generation family farmer in Louisana and grew up on a multi-generational farm. Nearly 20 years ago, he took a "leap of faith" - here's his story.
Dr. Allen Williams made the hard decision to leave the comfort and security of university life and returned to farming and ranching on his family farm.
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