By Mark Van Steenwyk on 01/19/2010
I believe one ethical way forward is to reboot our relationship with our food. Besides growing one’s own food, an ethical consumer can limit their consumption to their local region. Buy local produce during the harvest seasons, learn to can some food, dry some food, freeze other food.
Posted in Features, Food & Agriculture | Tagged Christian faith and food, christian locavores, ethics of eating, food and Empire, food ethics, food preservation, globalization, JesusManifesto.com, local food movement, locavore, Mark Van Steenwyk, profood, slowfood, Sustainable Agriculture
By Ragan Sutterfield on 01/15/2010
Caitlin Flanagan recently created a stir with her article in The Atlantic criticizing school gardens. There have been some excellent rebuttals to Flannagan, but as I read the article I kept hearing Wendell Berry’s poetic character, “The Mad Farmer,”…
Posted in Agrarian Notebook, Features | Tagged agriculture as education, Caitlin Flanagan, Education, School Gardens, Sustainable Agriculture, The Atlantic, Wendell Berry
By J Fowler on 12/24/2009
We are creatures, limited and dependent, living in a world that God created out of the trinitarian community of love…It is our role as Christians to live as limited and dependent creatures so that the creation might flourish and all can enjoy the abundance that God has created…
Posted in Features, Interviews | Tagged agrarian, Biblical agrarian, book, Christian agrarian, christian faith, church farm movement, Creation Care, Environment & Creation, farming, Farming As A Spiritual Discipline, Gene Logsdon, interview, Joel Salatin, ragan sutterfield, stewardship, Sustainable Agriculture, Theology, Wendell Berry
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By Julie Clawson on 07/10/2009
I recently headed out to a sold-out showing of the documentary Food, Inc. at Austin’s own Alamo Drafthouse. Generally, getting dinner and drinks along with my movie is my favorite “night out” activity, but in watching a film which critically examines our industrial food system, it was a bit strange.
Posted in Features, Food & Agriculture | Tagged agriculture, Food Inc, Joel Salatin, julie clawson, polyface farm, profood, Sustainable Agriculture
By Zachary Adam Cohen on 07/10/2009
Where are the conservatives who want to conserve the environment? Where are the church groups unwilling to participate in a system where factory farming of livestock is a reality?
Posted in Features, Food & Agriculture | Tagged book, Crunch Cons: The New Conservative Counterculture, crunchy cons, food politics, local food movement, rod dreher, Sustainable Agriculture
By Sara Cardinale on 07/06/2009
What is our food culture as a whole in this country? There are stories of corporate greed, polluted environments, mad cow disease, salmonella outbreaks, genetically modified organisms, and bankrupt farmers by the hour….”it’s not enought to say NO to what we don’t like-we must say YES to the good, ” according to Salatin.
Posted in Features, Food & Agriculture, Topics | Tagged Joel Salatin, local food, michael pollan, polyface farm, profood, Sustainable Agriculture, the omnivore's dilemma
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