Gail Nickel-Kailing, September 10th, 2017 (Take a virtual tour of the Anderson Ranch here. Click on any image to launch the slide show.)
Montana is rightfully called Big Sky Country, and it’s not unusual to drive 3 or 4 hours to attend a meeting, visit friends, or join a field day to learn about ranching or farming. On
Read more: The Resilient Ranch
Enclosed by surrounding mountain ranges, where black cattle and white sheep graze in sunshine filtered through a slight haze of wildfire smoke, a community comes together to concentrate on healthy animals, healthy soil, and healthy families.
Read more: It takes a community to raise healthy sheep!
When one of the world’s experts on soil health and land resilience (from Auckland, NZ, a 9,500 mile trek) is scheduled to lead a day-long workshop just 170 miles away, you do everything you can to be there!
Read more: A Soil Crawl in Big Timber, Montana
Nicholas Parkinson, February 25th, 2017 Osvaldo and I were talking about the ole bees, bouncing around in the back of a truck that was heading down a path, which would have been a nice stroll on foot. I told him about beekeepers in Ethiopia who still used traditional—euphemism for ancient—honey methods, meaning they climb trees and hang tubular, woven baskets,
Read more: An Arhuaco Solution to Man’s Disequilibrium
Our “National Hymn,” America the Beautiful, opens with the image of endless skies over fields of ripe golden grain that reach to purple mountains on the horizon. Poet Katharine Lee Bates would probably be appalled to realize that she was eulogizing one of the worst examples of mono-cropping in existence – second only to the carpeting of Iowa with corn.
Read more: Local Grains: Taking Back Our Wheat
Adam Cornford, December 31st, 2015 
The conquistadores virtually erased chia from Mayan cultural awareness as part of their campaign to subjugate the Mesoamerican peoples to Church and King. But today, even as ordinary Guatemalans are engaged in a massive ongoing popular campaign to throw off the rule of a corrupt and brutal elite, chia may be ripe for rediscovery.
Read more: Chia and Maya: Potential For a Nutritional Renewal In Guatemala
Ronny Escobar, December 31st, 2015 
Most of the Ethiopian farmers in the Lelistu Ogda farmer cooperative struggle with soil fertility. That’s why Ayelech Bekele and 19 other women now embrace beekeeping as an alternative method for increasing their incomes.
Read more: Modern Hives Give Ethiopian Women Farmers New Vocation
Gail Nickel-Kailing, December 17th, 2015 
Gardens of Eagan, Northfield MN, 2010
As we face climate change and continuing issues of food security, how will natural food markets and co-ops source healthy local food and provide a living wage to farm and retail workers?
In 2007, the Wedge Co-op, Minneapolis MN, believed the simple answer was to buy the Gardens
Read more: Another One Bites the Dust: Wedge Co-op’s Gardens of Egan Farm Auction
Gail Nickel-Kailing, November 3rd, 2015 
We’ve just finished 31 days of commercials, ads, and events – and pink everything – as part of October’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and we’re all aware of the threat of cancer – all types of cancer – regardless of our age or gender. So now we’re being told that even the meat on our plates is going to cause cancer. What’s the real truth?
Read more: Red Meat, Processed Meat, and Cancer – The Latest Form of Yellow Journalism?
Nicholas Parkinson, September 3rd, 2015 
Ethiopian food processor and exporter Agro Prom has made the first step in changing the course of Ethiopian chickpea history and established the country’s first industrial chickpea processing and cleaning machine.
Read more: Africa’s Top Chickpea Producer Brings First Industrial Processing Machine Online in 2015
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Griz Read 2017:
Lentil Underground
Free and Open to the Public
September 21, 2017
University of Montana, Missoula
The purpose of the Griz Read is to provide new students with a common connection through a thought-provoking book. This year, a committee of faculty, staff, and students selected Lentil Underground, by Liz Carlisle.
Journalist and native Montanan Liz Carlisle weaves an eye-opening and richly reported narrative that will be welcomed by readers of food and farm memoirs, as well as everyone concerned with the future of American agriculture and natural food in an increasingly uncertain world.
Details here.
A Video You Don't Want to Miss!
This one comes recommended by Gabe Brown, expert in Regenerative Agriculture and Holistic Management!
Gabe Brown, will a keynote speaker at the AERO 2017 Expo,
Oct. 20-22, Butte MT.
Book of the Month
Big Hunger: The Unholy Alliance between Corporate America and Anti-Hunger Groups
By Andrew Fisher
Food banks and food pantries have proliferated in response to an economic emergency. This was meant to be a stopgap measure, but the jobs never came back, and the “emergency food system” became an industry.
But there is reason for hope that we can end hunger, not just manage it. Read on...
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