his weekend we held the first national Rogue Food Conference in Cincinnati.   It was like bathing under a refreshing shower all day, listening to folks who take personal liberty more seriously than government regulation…

I just returned home from the wonderful Rogue Food Conference in Cincinnati on Friday.  We had 300 folks from around the country focusing on circumvention rather than compliance, celebrating food choice and learning about strategies to get the government out of our micro-biome.

Yet another confirmation that in the biological world it's not just 2 + 2 = 4 comes from a study looking at residual consequences of herbicides sprayed on sweet corn…

We're all familiar with food deserts.  Here is the official USDA definition of a food desert:  places where one-third of the population lives at least one mile away from the closest supermarket in urban areas and at least ten miles away in rural areas.

 My good friend and mentor Woody Tasch, founder of Slow Money, has an interesting twist on certifications.  His gift is simplifying complex notions into either a formula or phrase. 

When I say the above phrase, scientists bristle.  But when THE ECONOMIST says it, apparently everyone's fine with it.  The reason I'm drawn to examples of subjective science is because the more our western culture worships science, the more hubris surrounds it.

I promise not to inundate you all with promotions of the first ever on-farm Mother Earth News fair here at Polyface July 17-18, but when I'm giddy about developments, I can't help but share things. 

Who is today's Ghandi?  If you'll recall, Ghandi practiced civil disobedience.  At the time, he was vilified, especially by the powers of the day, both domestic and foreign.  He was the quintessential populist, making ordinary people believe they could do things they didn't think possible.