From the Farmer

Real talk and weekly insight from the Grass Roots farmers

Friends, we've been suckered into buying food in two installments: the empty calories at the grocery store, then the missing nutrients at the pharmacy.The numbers make my blood boil. Since the 1950s, industrial farming has stripped 30-70% of nutrients from our food. Spinach has...
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The Battle Over Food Standards Grab your garden trowels and get ready for action! There's a bill creeping through Congress that has me more confused than a rooster with a wristwatch. It's called the EATS Act, and I just spent this...
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A banker would've laughed at Andrea and my business plan 20 years ago: "So, let me get this straight – you want to loan money to two starry-eyed dreamers with borrowed pasture and a mission to revolutionize the meat industry?"...
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Our pigs are on their daily move to fresh forage of autumn acorns, chestnuts and wild berries.   Three daily check-ins, 250 days straight, countless weather challenges - and you know what? We wouldn't have it any other way. But...
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