by David Gumpert | Sep 10, 2007 | Uncategorized |
Oake Knoll Ayrshires farm sits less than two miles from Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, MA, where the New England Patriots play football, and yesterday it had its version of a big tailgating party. In a highly improbable scene—given the recall last week of raw...
by David Gumpert | Sep 9, 2007 | Uncategorized |
The sense of déjà vu was eerie. First the California Department of Food and Agriculture posted a press release on its site: It had ordered a recall of raw cream produced by Organic Pastures Dairy Co. Then the Associated Press came out with a story, which...
by David Gumpert | Sep 9, 2007 | Uncategorized |
I’m a big fan of AlvinToffler, who writes books that predict the future. Though best known for Future Shock, I found his 1990 book, PowerShift, to be eye opening in describing how the shift to a knowledge-based economy would lead to unimaginable social and...
by David Gumpert | Sep 7, 2007 | Uncategorized |
Just how wide is the political-intellectual divide I wrote about Wednesday? Well, I had the good (or bad?) fortune to listen in on a conversation in the Oval Office, or at least I imagined I listened in. Here’s what I heard: Present at the meeting: the...
by David Gumpert | Sep 6, 2007 | Uncategorized |
When I think about the Greg Niewendorp affair, what seems to hit me first isn’t the involvement of the state police, or the irritation of the sheriff, or Greg’s tough talk, but rather it is his view that depleted soil is causing the bovine TB problem in...
by David Gumpert | Sep 5, 2007 | Uncategorized |
If you have law enforcement business in Michigan’s Charlevoix County, you better see the sheriff first. The word around Charlevoix County is that its sheriff, George Laseter, has warned other law enforcement and regulatory agencies—including the FBI,...
by David Gumpert | Sep 4, 2007 | Uncategorized |
In addition to making cheese this past weekend, I spent time reading Joel Salatin’s new book, “Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front”. Joel, of course, is the Virginia farmer who has become a celebrity of sorts for...
by David Gumpert | Sep 2, 2007 | Uncategorized |
Saturday was an amazing day in these here parts of the Northeast. Deep blue sky, cool, almost autumn-like temperatures, and the bounties of a full harvest. The Norwich (VT) Farmers Market was mobbed with people stocking up on beautifully ripe tomatoes, corn,...
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