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20 November 2017
A trip to the Sheep’s Head peninsula in West Cork and one of the pioneer cheesemakers there, Jeffa Gill.
13 November 2017
Chew on these: Codfather, organics, big chicken, Instagram semiotics and double-entry easy cooking.
9 November 2017
Sometimes the internet works in mysterious ways, to bring problems and solutions within days of one another.
6 November 2017
Many of the things you might believe about the history of agriculture in America just aren’t true.
3 November 2017
Just follow the money. The reason big growers want organic certification is so they can charge more.
30 October 2017
I suppose it is inevitable that the things that catch my attention are the things that are on my mind. This issue of the newsletter reflects that to a greater than usual extent. Antibiotics, food systems, apple breeding, kale and some key references.
23 October 2017
Apples picked to perfume a room. Undocumented apples and apples with false papers. Foundlings that could give a supermarket apple a run for its money. Others that don’t taste too good but are catnip to blackbirds. A heritage orchard in County Clare, Ireland.
16 October 2017
On the links between land reform and prosperity, the origins of a sandwich, the Amish and Whole Foods and more.
13 October 2017
Playing fast and loose with data is a sure sign that people know they’re wrong. Defenders of antibiotics in agriculture are no exception.
9 October 2017
Antibiotic resistance is one consequence of feeding animals large amounts of antibiotics — about three times the amount given to people in the US. Why is it so hard to regulate the use of antibiotics in agriculture, and how else might we tackle the problem?