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YES!, September 10, 2019
The recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change shows that agriculture is responsible for 37% of greenhouse gas emissions. There’s hope—and a solution.
National Wildlife, 03/27/2017
Science is showing how healthy soil can help save the planet—and how we can all help improve what lies beneath our feet.
Ensia, December 5, 2016
When federal crop insurance rules stymied Gail Fuller’s attempts to innovate, he knew something had to change.
American Archeology, Summer 2016
Research in Belizean caves has revealed paleoclimate data indicating the Maya suffered a series of droughts from the seventh through tenth centuries. The research also shows how the Maya beseeched their gods to end the droughts, the latest of which coincided with their collapse.
Orion Magazine, March/April 2016 Volume 35, Number 2
Rick Haney, gangly and garrulous, paces in front of a congregation of government conservationists, working the room for laughs before he gets to the hard data. The U.S. Department of Agriculture soil scientist points to an aerial photograph of research plots outside his facility in Temple, Texas. “Our drones took this shot,” he says, then shakes his head. “Kidding. We don’t have any drones.”
Modern Farmer, January 16, 2016
Jon Bansen’s Jerseys gaze with such mild disinterest at visitors to his Monmouth, Oregon, dairy farm that it’s hard to believe they can cause trouble.
Craftsmanship, January, 15, 2015
Mark Sturges doesn’t advertise and clients have to find him by word of mouth, but find him they do. He’s become a master of an agricultural art as old as agriculture itself: basic compost.
Takepart, November 18, 2014
Scientists, farmers, and chefs are developing new varieties of produce from heirloom seeds. It will make life better for organic farmers—and yummier for everyone else.
Modern Farmer, April 3, 2014
There are thousands and thousands of bees that are not honeybees out there, pollinating our flowers and helping plants produce food. Who knew?
Experience Life, March 2014
Mental health is not all in our heads. Nutrition is an oft-ignored — yet incredibly effective — way to manage mental illness, including schizophrenia.
Experience Life, November 2011
Most of the processed foods we eat are studded with mysterious additives. They extend shelf life. They create exciting flavors, colors and textures. But they don’t do great things for our health. Find out which ones to avoid, and why.
Experience Life, May 2008
Not only does fast food tend to be unhealthy, but some of its ingredients are downright addictive. Here's how to kick the habit.
Feast Magazine, Fall/Winter 2007
A gracious and venerably lined great-grandmother in a sequined gown pushed the plate of snacks at me. It was a small white dish, the only evidence of the wedding feast to come. A crowd of children eyed its passage across the table disconsolately.
Gourmet, October 2007
Six years after the US invasion, dining in the Afghan capital proves equal parts delicious and sobering.
Included in Best American Travel Writing 2008. Nominated for a James Beard Award.
Christian Science Monitor, January 11, 2007
From his tasting room on the hilly outskirts of Oroville, Calif., Jamie Johannson can hear the workers picking his olives. Even when they are too far away for him to hear their voices, he can still detect the wind-chime-like clamor of them at work.
The New York Times, November 1, 1998 (page A 18)
MAYFIELD HEIGHTS, OH—Even though Joseph Tomaro is the last, defiant holdout in a rural neighborhood gone urban, he enjoys the serendipitous camaraderie that commercialism brings his way. He knows the names of the office workers who walk by his house and swaps news with the merchants down the street.
