Farmers were always generalists. They had to know science and commerce and all sorts of practical things.
My mom had Julia Child and 'The Fannie Farmer Cookbook' on top of the refrigerator, and she had a small repertoire of French dishes.
We're still here trying to get the word out that 330 farmers are quitting every week.
A farm includes the passion of the farmer's heart, the interest of the farm's customers, the biological activity in the soil, the pleasantness of the air about the farm -- it's everything touching, emanating from, and supplying that piece of landscap...
At this point in history, our society tends to elevate and reward the specialist...This concentrated focus has brought some benefits...It may also be a modern malady. Specialization, when taken too far and allowed to define who and what we are, becom...
As Master Nathaniel jogged leisurely along his thoughts turned to the Farmer Gibberty, who many a time must have jogged along this path, in just such a way, and seen and heard the very same things that he was seeing and hearing now. Yes, the Farmer G...
I cleaned the shit off my pink high-tops and drove home, stopping for an espresso at the coffeehouse across from the college. Men and women were hunched over copies of Jean Paul Sartre and writing in their journals. Most wore the thin-rimmed tortoise...
To see the farm is to leave it.
I come from the countryside. I come from a bunch of horticulture family members. My best friend was a farmer's boy.
I did Lassie for six years and I never had anybody come up to me and say, 'It made me want to be a farmer.'
It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist.
Whether some may like it or not, I am still the farmer that I was born as and will continue to be one.
Chapter 11 is an expensive process that does not accommodate the special needs of farmers.
It was not an unusual site to see Negro tenant farmers crossing the intersection of Spring and Barbrick on the way to the cotton warehouse
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
Browsing our local farmer's market is one of my family's favorite weekend activities. Make it a relaxing, healthful habit for your family, and you'll reap the nutritional rewards.
In 1997, the National Bankruptcy Review Commission recommended that chapter 12 of the Federal Bankruptcy Code, the chapter that contains bankruptcy protection for family farmers, be made permanent.
When you meet the farmers and go to the farms, you see that they treat their animals like they're family. It makes a big difference.
Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.
If Occupy Wall Street can see their way to more collaboration with the union movement, then there will be a great deal of political action possible.
I will announce some of the tombs I found next to the great pyramid of Khufu. One is an intact tomb that I have not opened yet.
