·      North Dakota Voters Add Farmer Protection to Constitution http://goo.gl/7aaTo

·      To Get Around Tax Hike, Spanish Theater Sells Carrots Not Tickets http://goo.gl/mJacc

·      3 Inspiring Examples of Urban Agriculture http://goo.gl/fcDwX

Havana, Cuba; Atlanta, Georgia; Oakland, California

·      Marion Nestle: Food Politics: The election is over (whew): what’s next? http://goo.gl/Vt7ca

o   Kids Don’t Need Kids Food http://goo.gl/gIFJk

·      School Lunches From Around the World http://goo.gl/9...

·      Bill and Lou: A Parable for Saving Our Broken Food System http://goo.gl/C9d9e

·      These guerrilla cartographers are mapping the edible world http://goo.gl/KBDgG

·      20 Food Heroes http://goo.gl/QtYyr

·      9 Big Companies That Benefit From Food Stamps http://goo.gl/D4A15

·      Michael Pollan: From GMOs to NYC’s Soda Ban, Local Efforts Challenge Agri-Giants’ National Control http://goo.gl/bhztL

Among the nation’s leading writers and thinkers on food and food policy, Michael Pollan talks...

·      Amazon Farmers (Ecuador) Seize Chevron Assets http://goo.gl/40G7h

·      Vermont Leads Way for “Farm to Plate” Planning http://goo.gl/w68tY

10 year seeks path to more sustainable local food system

·      Scenes of ‘Dust Bowl Days’ Return As Oklahoma Storm Causes Highway Pileup http://goo.gl/zGVd6

Year of high temps and record drought portends climate future for once fertile croplands

·      Farmers, Workers, Consumers, Unite! New Visions in Food Justice http://goo.gl/yCO6G

How do we make sure...

·      Bhutan Bets Organic Agriculture Is The Road To Happiness http://goo.gl/ZgVzg

·      Fresh produce to reach more families in Sunnyvale, California http://goo.gl/1Lrnq

·      Vandana Shiva: Corporate monopoly of seeds must end http://goo.gl/sRrYi

·      Choose the Right Apple http://goo.gl/RfMBT

A flow chart to aid in your pomaceous decision-making.

·      Hawaii’s Beef Industry Crushed By Drought Just As Locally Grown Meat Finally Catches On http://goo.gl/GP5cy

·      A bad harvest, rising...

·      Declaration On Seed Freedom http://goo.gl/NG9dj

·      After Graduating From College, It’s Time to Plow, Plant and Harvest http://goo.gl/N5cvj

·      That Flawed Stanford Study http://goo.gl/fgMrX

·      Land reform protests heat up in Paraguay http://goo.gl/c6ttj

·      Man eaten by hogs at Oregon farm http://goo.gl/TKgdX

·      US farmers turn to gummy worms, fruit loops to feed cows after corn shortage http://goo.gl/jhTqz

·      For Local Fisheries, a Line of Hope http://goo.gl/lEJPi

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·      The upstart cattleman http://goo.gl/9RtSZ

Will Harris broke the mold on farming and built the most successful organic beef operation in Georgia. But first he had to break with four generations of family history.

·      Plowing away the prairie, at a price http://goo.gl/7CmT3

Setting ourselves up for another Dust Bowl… http://goo.gl/JCUyP

·      Myths About Industrial Agriculture http://goo.gl/AlKZz

Organic farming is the “only way to produce food’ without harming the planet and people’s...

·      America: Becoming a Land Without Farmers http://goo.gl/Sf3YR

·      Where Cos Are Happy and Food Is Healthy http://goo.gl/dWf3F

·      Regional Food Systems Need Financial Services to Flourish http://goo.gl/JuUyF

·      One Activist’s Fight Against Walmart’s Food Justice Takeover http://goo.gl/I65UV

·      NJ: Schools adjust to new federal lunch guidelines http://goo.gl/kKQDE

·      Way Beyond Greenwashing: Have Corporations Captured Big Conservation? http://goo.gl/440zz

·      More on the...

If you don't have the means to grow your own organic vegetables and raise your own livestock, the most traditional way to obtain fresh produce and locally made goods has been to purchase them at the neighborhood farmers market.  In recent years, it's encouraging to see the newfound resurgence in the popularity of farmers markets. 

For the past several years, the prevalence and added convenience of shopping at grocery stores and supermarkets, has made it all too easy to forget about where and how...

5 Ways the Stanford Study Sells Organics Short... and many more headlines regarding our food industry.

·      ‘Food Hubs’ Connect School Districts With Farmers http://goo.gl/KwEuL

Online California food hub Ag Link http://goo.gl/RsgKY, ALBA in Salinas http://goo.gl/YRL79 and others in Vermont, Oregon and …

·      Media Coverage of Stanford’s Organic Foods Study is Half Baked http://goo.gl/EbF8K

o   Busted! Co-author of Stanford study that bashed organics found to have deep ties to Big Tobacco’s...

I'm going to be going into great detail on why you need a blog and how to use it as time goes by. (Trust me, successful Farm Marketing depends on it.)  But right now I want to address all of those who have a farm blog and don't keep it updated on a regular basis. 

The biggest excuses I hear for this is no time or thinking you have nothing to say.   Well listen up... success in the slow food movement depends on a non-stop stream of content.  It's all about telling your story...often and with...