| Welcome to GoodFood World | April 16, 2012
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 How does one farm feed nearly a 1000 people? No, it's not the miracle of the loaves and fishes; it's the miracle of good soil, organic cropping, rotational grazing, and a community of busy hands.
Jubilee Biodynamic Farm, Carnation WA, supplies 400 families with fruit, vegetables, and meat through a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program - all from just 40 intensively-farmed acres.
A fisherman turned farmer, Erick Haakenson, his wife Wendy, his son David and David's wife Kristin are the core of the operation, but more than 80 other sets of hands help keep the farm productive.
Read how CSAs mean connections between the land and the consumers in Jubilee Biodynamic Farm: Close Community Connections.
The Farm Bill is anything but bureaucratic trivia. Rather, it's is an essential economic and policy engine that drives the food and farming system.
 If you pay taxes, care about the nutritional value of school lunches, worry about biodiversity or the loss of farmland and open space, you have a personal stake in the tens of billions of dollars committed annually to agriculture and food policies.
If you're concerned about escalating federal budget deficits, the fate of family farmers, a food system dominated by corporations and commodities, conditions of immigrant farm workers, the state of the country's woodlands, or the marginalization of locally raised organic food and grass-fed meat and dairy products, you should pay attention to the Farm Bill.
The Farm Bill matters! To be informed is to be armed... Read Farm Bill 2012: It's a mess, but it's our mess!
There's more, keep reading! Get a cup of coffee and join us at GoodFood World, where we get to the source by talking to the people who produce, process, and deliver good food. Take care, eat well, and be well!
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Kate's in the Kitchen: The Implications of Eating Animals
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 Kate Hilmer, our Good Food on a Budget contributor, is on the horns of a dilemma... literally. She's been reading and with information comes education and awareness. Her question? What are the implications of eating animals? She says: For the past two weeks I've gone from a selective omnivore to very selective, teetering in on the brink of vegetarianism. I'm not sure yet which way I'll fall, but I've made a few important decisions to ground me for the time being. One thing is for certain, and this book made it painfully clear to me: meat matters. Read how Jonathan Safran Foer's book, Eating Animals, pointed Kate in a new direction.
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 Our Minnesota shepherdess, Lea McEvilly, is back at her keyboard and filling us in on life on the farm. Here are her latest installments:
Keep reading, there will be more!
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 Atina Diffley and Tracie McMillan - Women, Food, and Farming
Two books written by two women, one a farmer and one a journalist. More than two decades separate them in age, yet both write about food - growing it, preparing it, and eating it.
No, these are not the "usual women's books." These are not diet books nor cook books, but books about their very personal experiences around food.
 Atina Diffley, author of Turn Here Sweet Corn, is a farmer who writes of more than 20 years on a Minnesota organic produce farm with words that resemble free verse and sing with beauty. Those words also tell of her fear, panic, joy, and contentment in her life choices.
Tracie McMillan's book, The American Way of Eating, is a work of undercover journalism and takes a personal look at the business of food. McMillan works as a migrant worker, a produce handler at Wal-Mart, and a kitchen "expediter" at an Appleby's Restaurant.
Read about these women and a review of their books here. There are more books on GoodFood World and more coming every week.
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 We post a new food-related word or phrase every week. This week's phrase is: Dropped Eggs. Let's be careful!
The Dictionary of American Regional English is a multi-volume reference that documents words, phrases, and pronunciations as they vary from place to place across the United States.
Read about today's GoodFood Word at DARE.
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