Organic food
Veggie-Traders Trading Homegrown Produce
Are you tired of wasting – or composting – perfectly good homegrown and organic produce? If you don’t have time to can or if you don’t have a bunch of hungry family members and neighbors, then you can shed that excess produce through the new Veggie Trader…
My Problems with H. R. 875, The Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009
This past weekend I had the pleasure to meet at least six people who are engaged in sustainable farming in Virginia. These individuals worked on farms for a number of years for very little money. Their pleasure was learning how to grow organic foods, eating the same foods and supplying others with their produce.
Nutritionist’s Lecture Feeds the Mind to Help Nourish the Body
Liz Lipski, a board-certified clinical nutritionist and author, will present “Food as Information: How Alien Foods Change the Way We Feel” at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 4 in the Boxwood Room at Sweet Briar College’s Elston Inn and Conference Center.
Bud the Bad Good Example
Whenever I am on “vacation” here at the farm, it is usually only a matter of a day or two before I settle into a routine. Wake up at 7-ish, check my e-mail, feed the horses and then spend the rest of the day trying to avoid work and usually failing. Especially if my wife is around.


