Reclaiming Our Food (Book Review)
“Across America, the grassroots food movement seems to be arising from a common feeling that we have lost our center…This book tells the story of people who are seeking to find a new center, to create meaning and purpose in their lives, to restore harmony and balance in their relationships with the land, food and each other…”
Health For Godly Generations (Book Excerpt)
In her book Health for Godly Generations, the author Renee DeGroot has compiled a deeply thoughtful and provoking conversation…I consider this book to be a solid entry into the growing Christian conversation on health, food and the multi-faceted issues that surround this element of our lives.
Seeking shalom: Renewing the Regional Foodshed
I’m not sure the exact moment that this happen but at some point over the past five years I became passionate about food and agriculture…This long journey in exploring issues of food, health and agriculture (and how they all relate) has also coincided with a deeper spiritual journey…
Agrarian Revival: New Blood In The Old Body (Crob Mob video)
Kudos to Trace Ramsey (aka Cricket Bread) for this brilliantly profound essay and video: Crop Mob: An Introduction…
Congregational Supported Agriculture (The Other CSA)
Traditionally, churches or faith congregations reach out and serve those around them, meeting spiritual needs, of course, but also dealing with physical needs in the community. Food is a great way to fulfill both needs…
The Mad Farmer: Wendell Berry’s Agrarian Poetic (Part 5)
The mad farmer says of the farmer who has given in to industrialization “If he raises a good crop at the cost of belittling himself and diminishing the ground, he has gained nothing…The Mad Farmer encourages us to stop thinking about money and goods and to return to thinking about our communities and land…
Local Churches Launch Fresh-Food Market (Seattle)
It is encouraging to see what churches are doing to help in this challenging economic times and what better place to find out what is happening than in the local newspaper. Someone just sent me this article Local Churches Launch fresh-food market to change the way we eat…
American Meat (film trailer)
What I find unique about this film project is they seem to be using it as merely a starting point for action. The film American Meat is apparently connected with a video-based social network called Leave It Better and another sister project Harvest Cloud…
The Mad Farmer: Wendell Berry’s Agrarian Poetic (Part 4)
We are reminded that we are to cultivate an agricultural and communal vision that marries the wisdom from the past with a view towards the distant future. If the result is unorthodox and against the popular opinion of the day- than so be it- we are contrarian as a means to enact a restoration of what has been broken…
Farmageddon (movie trailer)
“Farmageddon exposes the battle over food rights in America. Farmer’s and consumers start food co-ops and buying clubs or homesteads, and then are shut down by the government in the name of food safety.”
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