Influence

The federal Farm Spending Bill has come under fire from all sides, but no one is hotter under the collar over some egregious inequities uncovered by a recent in depth study of where those dollars are going than environmentalists. At a time when developing green resources and farming methods is the world’s obvious way out of unhealthy consumption and chemical contamination of our food supply, it is astounding to learn that most of the money set aside for farm spending is not going to farmers who focus on healthy, clean, green crops. Continue reading

Admit it:  sometimes when your Facebook friends are all preoccupied with Farmville (especially when they resort to asking YOU for help) it grates on your nerves.  You don’t really want to visit anyone’s wall and read all about the new vegetables they can grow, or how a rabbit is in the cabbage patch, etc…  and yet, you can’t exactly do much about it, can you?  Well, you can always completely block the Farmville App, which will put an end to most of your woes.

But if you’re the globally conscious, civic minded planetary citizen that I bet you are, you won’t be Continue reading

When you think about American farmers it’s natural to also think about country music. When I think of farming the first thing that comes to mind are my favorite country songs that are centered around farming. Farming has been a huge part of American survival and success. Continue reading