The ARTS/West building, formerly a church, seemed an appropriate venue for Monday night’s talk by Warren Taylor, Meigs County dairy evangelist and co-owner of Snowville Creamery. The pews were packed with the faithful, both young and old (later referred to by Warren as the AARP contingent or Athens Area Radical Progressives). Just inside the doors [...]
Posts Tagged ‘food security’
Dairy Evangelist Shakes It Up (Cause It’s Not Homoginized)
Posted in real milk, tagged eat local foods, food security, local food activist, local foods, locavore, Snowville Creamery on November 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
What do you get when you cross an activist and a farmer?
Posted in 30 Mile Meal Week, tagged food security, local food activist, local foods on October 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
An Agtivist! Francis Thicke is currently running for Iowa Secretary of Agriculture. According to The New Agtivist, “Thicke is a down-to-earth Iowa dairyman and professorial, statistics-spouting visionary. He’s been a full-time farmer 27 years, running what’s now a 450-acre farm with 80 cows that he and his wife, Susan, got certified organic in 1993. After [...]
Tornado Yields Edible Tree Planting Project
Posted in edible landscapes, tagged edible landscapes, food security, Make a Difference Day on October 12, 2010 | 1 Comment »
100 Fruit and Nut Trees Available Free to The Plains Residents A local tree planting project working to replant trees in The Plains, Ohio needs donations of $20 a tree to cover costs. After a devastating tornado tore through the village on September 16, 2010 and destroyed many of the village’s trees local [...]
