Category Archives: Food Warrior Interns

When Having Worms is a Good Thing (Plus How to Brew Tea You Won’t Want to Drink!)

I’m convinced there are just two ways to approach farming: one, with an analytical mind, or two, going with your gut and building on experience. On a recent group tour of a worm farm, Bamastan Farming Co., the guests were … Continue reading

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Meet Your Meat Before You Eat

The opening sequence of American Meat, a new documentary about the current state of meat production in the United States, asks why modern Americans are so removed from the process of raising and killing the centerpiece of their meals and diets. … Continue reading

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5 Mile Farms is “Too Real To Fail”

5 Mile Farms is doing something very different, and people are taking notice.  This week I met up with the founder, Randy Jewart, to talk about his goals and hopes for the farm and what makes it stand out from the … Continue reading

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“The Best Tofu You’ve Ever Eaten.” Oxymoron? Not for Hodo Soy!

Hodo Soy Beanery’s story begins with founder Minh Tsai, who wanted to create a type of tofu that, in his words, “the Asians would eat.” Tsai had a vision to create a reliable, healthy, and unique tofu that people could enjoy. Backed by … Continue reading

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When the Goating Gets Tough, Mary Gets Milking

As Mary Ridgon recounts, “All of us receive the same amount of hours in the day. What we do with them is up to us and ultimately defines who we are.”

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Don’t Stop Bee-lievin’

Shakespeare, even in 1599, knew the great importance of bees in society saying in his play Henry V: “for so work the honey-bees, creatures that by a rule in nature teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom.” This … Continue reading

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Bridging the Divide Between GMO and Organic

Looking out across the patchwork of farms that surround the town of Waialua on Oahu’s North Shore it is easy to see the tension between GMO and heritage crops, conventional and organic farming, and economic versus environmental sustainability that has … Continue reading

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A Silvopastoral System Preserves Agrarian Landscapes and Lifeways

Do you see something, that doesn’t belong? Jack, the one without horns, is just one of the anomalies you’ll come across at Grove Creek Farm. Located about 20 miles east of Athens, tucked into the Georgia countryside, is a unique couple … Continue reading

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Hearts in the Mix, Love’s in the Batter

Rebecca Wood is smitten with baking. I can imagine her measuring her ingredients with care, tipping out each one into a big welcoming bowl, and happily mixing these into a wonderful blend ready for the oven, her face smiling gently as she … Continue reading

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Self-taught Malters Become Massachusetts’ One and Only

Say you want to start a local brewery. You network with local farmers, you have access to local grains, there’s nothing stopping you. Au contrare, my friend. In order to make the grains usable in the beer brewing process, they … Continue reading

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