Here’s an excerpt from President Bush’s comments on Earth Day. As we observe the 38th Earth Day this Sunday, we celebrate the rich blessings of our Nation’s natural resources, and we renew our commitment to protecting our environment so we leave our children and grandchildren a flourishing land. By encouraging cooperative conservation, innovation, and new technologies, my Administration has compiled …
A Nice Day in the Field
Here’s what I saw a lot of returning from my weekend retreat near Herman, MO. The weather has improved a lot from the extremely cold spring we’ve been having. It was very windy this afternoon and the dust was flying. Judging from all the stories you can find on Google right now the cold and wet spring has created havoc …
Growing Goodness Online Community
Here’s a new website/community called Growing Goodness or the Farmers Market Channel. It looks like supporters of Farm Aid are behind it since when you open the site you get a Farm Aid YouTube video clip. If you’re looking for a good example of an online community you might want to check it out. There are a number of links …
Farmers Online In Web Forums
I know I just did a post on this but I’ve had enough people emailing me links to this AP story that I thought I’d post it again. I think that since it’s starting to show up in numerous websites more people are finding it. Like on CNN. My main takeaway from this story is still the fact that farmers …
Agricultural Production Displays
Some of the best looking vegetables I’ve ever seen are growing indoors here in one of the main agriculture buildings. I wish my garden looked like this. But I guess it would if I had a guy in overalls (there were a lot them) manually grooming and treating each plant every day. This building looks like a collaboration of many companies and you could essentially follow agricultural production through the whole chain from field to plate since you had crops, animals, processing and even a small grocery store set up to show how the consumer where their food actually comes from.
Industrial Hemp Farms?
The first image that came to my mind when I saw this was of a very relaxed and happy farmer harvesting his crop while listening to some cool tunes on his iPhone. I wonder if it’s going to happen. I wonder how you would market this crop and where. I wonder a lot of things sometimes.
FarmWebDesigners
I don’t think I’ve ever done a post on FarmWebDesign although Jane Eckert mentioned it in a ZimmCast interview. Jane is the agritourism expert and she’s now been in the web design business for a while with a focus on farms.
Organic Vegetable Farmers Blogging
If you’ve always wondered about organic vegetable farming there’s a farm apprenticeship available at Old Shaw’s Farm in Vermont. The link will take you to the farm blog which was started by the former attorneys who decided to get away from all that stuff and move out into the country.
Skype Me Some Berries Please
You know I’m a growing fan of Skype which allows you to make phone calls on your computer. The company has some stories that customers have shared about their use of Skype. A motivated Skype user and AgWired fan pointed me to one called, “From little things, big things grow.” It’s about Jerald Downs who runs his own produce export company, Premier Pac, in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Here’s what Skype does for him in his words.
Podcasting To Peru Farmers
Not all farm podcasts have to be downloaded onto a digital audio player. I just found a story from earlier this year on bbc.co.uk. In Peru, telecentres (local broadcasting outlets) are subscribing to farm podcasts to obtain the information so they can broadcast it. The organization behind it is Practical Action.