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While there is nothing like real experience, Laura Child’s book “The Joy of Keeping Farm Animals” provides a very thorough description of what you can expect when setting up a farm for the purpose of raising your own animals for meat, eggs and dairy. It may seem romantic at first but, like all people and pets, farm animals have daily needs that must be attended to or they could get sick or die. While reading Child’s book I learned just how much work farm animals can be.

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Eat Well intern Stephanie Fisher interviewed Asher Burkhart-Spiegel of the Poughkeepsie Farm Project for the Green Fork. Stephanie spends her summers at home in Poughkeepsie, where she enjoys cooking fresh produce, baking vegan goodies, and experimenting with DIY cheese-making. She is working toward her B.A. in journalism and sustainable food systems. Here’s her report.

It’s rare [...]

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Want to mitigate climate change, reduce green house gasses and protect endangered song birds, pollinators and the native grasslands they inhabit? Support local grass-fed beef!
Okay, so the logic behind raising or eating beef as a means to reduce greenhouse gasses sounds flawed. Meat-eaters can get a lot of flack and finger-wagging for contributing to [...]

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As Kerry Trueman pointed out earlier this week in her post about young farmers (and would-be farmers), there are a lot of them out there, but most lack the funding to realize the dream of contributing to a cleaner, greener, more sustainable food system. While some may be inclined to give up, others get [...]

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Maybe Jeremy Piven didn’t get mercury poisoning from fish at all — according to the results of this new study released by the Institute for Agriculture and Trace Policy (IATP), the actor may well have been sickened by soda or candy or anything that contains high fructose corn syrup, which, if you eat processed food [...]

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