by David Gumpert | Oct 2, 2010 | Uncategorized |
Maine farmer Eliot Coleman tends to his newly arrived chickens. When I last saw Eliot Coleman prior to this past weekend, it was 1973 and he was still clearing boulders and tree stumps from his farm fields on Maine’s Cape Rossier to add to the small plots he had...
by David Gumpert | Sep 30, 2010 | Uncategorized |
Maine food rights activists Liz Solet, Deborah Evans, Larissa Curlik, Heather Retberg, and Kevin Ross.There’s an uprising brewing in Maine over food rights. Like in other parts of the country, it started with regulator interference in a traditional part of...
by David Gumpert | Sep 28, 2010 | Uncategorized |
I feel a little like the delivery guy who meant to leave off some plain Chinese food at the local luncheon club meeting, but inadvertently dropped off the super-spicy version, and then quickly departed, leaving the attendees to figure out how to cool off. I posted...
by David Gumpert | Sep 24, 2010 | Uncategorized |
Scott TrautmanIt’s been nearly a year since Scott Trautman lost his Wisconsin Grade A dairy license, depriving him of the opportunity to sell his dairy’s milk to processors for pasteurization. He was the victim of a coordinated crackdown by dairy...
by David Gumpert | Sep 22, 2010 | Uncategorized |
Sen. Tom Coburn of OklahomaNot surprisingly, the so-called food safety legislation has been revived by dealmakers in the U.S. Senate, and its fate is likely being decided as I write this. The Obama administration, having lost in its effort to change the...
by David Gumpert | Sep 20, 2010 | Uncategorized |
If you’re old enough to remember “The Lone Ranger”, you know he roamed America’s Wild West righting wrongs, sometimes firing silver bullets to make his points, and then riding off into the sunset with a hearty “Hi Yo Silver”. ...
by David Gumpert | Sep 17, 2010 | Uncategorized |
I did a lot of traveling this past weekend–driving around Virginia on Friday and Saturday, and around northern New England on Sunday. By Monday and Tuesday, my stomach was feeling kind of queasy. Uh-oh, I thought. I had had raw milk at three different places I...
by David Gumpert | Sep 14, 2010 | Uncategorized |
Joel Salatin explaining how Polyface Farm operates, to some of the FTCLDF supporters on Saturday. Being led on a tour of Polyface Farm by owner Joel Salatin is a special experience. Not only is it entertaining (like hearing Salatin explain how his methods differ from...
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