Submitted by Cara Cummings on Mon, 12/15/2014 – 8:20am But of course you can eat locally in Illinois in January! One of my favorite fall and winter dishes is roasted roots. They make a healthy, hearty, and beautiful meal. You can use whatever is available from your local farmer. I use a big variety of […]
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Farm Aid 30–Mud, Bands, and Seeds
Submitted by Cara Cummings on Mon, 09/21/2015 – 3:28pm The first Farm Aid concert was held in Champaign in 1985, and 30 years later it is still going strong. The first concert was supposed to be a one-off to help farmers in crisis–but the event turned into an organization that has been helping farmers ever […]
Farming Beautiful
Submitted by Cara Cummings on Tue, 08/25/2015 – 8:16am Farming is inherently beautiful. The reorganization of soil, water, and sunlight into a rainbow of colors and all of the architectural combinations that we have not thought of yet, that end up reorganized yet again before they end up on our plates. And then there are […]
Food is a basic human right. And the right to food is different than the right to charity.
Submitted by Cara Cummings on Mon, 06/29/2015 – 3:34pm Food is a basic human right. And the right to food is different than the right to charity. The theme for the UVM Food Systems Summit in June, which was hosted by the University of Vermont and Vermont Law School was, The Right to Food: Power, […]
Goodbye Melatonin, Hello Eggs
Submitted by Cara Cummings on Sun, 02/08/2015 – 9:22am The days are getting longer. I know this because the pineal gland does not lie. There is less melatonin being released into my hens’ bodies—something that is regulated by the amount of sunlight that penetrates their little skulls. The result of this phenomenon is the signal to […]
Gray Farms Produce
Submitted by Cara Cummings on Mon, 01/27/2014 – 5:21pm Both Marty and Crystal Gray grew up on farms, but it wasn’t until they left and were living and working in the suburbs of Chicago that they realized they wanted to to be closer their family, and to try farming as a business. But even though […]
