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Posted by Ruell on Sep 18, 2012

America: Becoming a Land Without Farmers

September 10, 2012 (Un)Sustainable Farming, Commentaries, Environment The plutocratic remaking of America has a parallel in the countryside. In rural America less than 3 percent of farmers make more than 63 percent of the money, including government subsidies. The results of this emerging feudal economy are everywhere. Large areas of the United States are becoming impoverished farm towns with abandoned...

Posted by Ruell on Sep 18, 2012

Health Problems PROVEN to result from GMO FOOD

This forward to me by my friend Mike Callicrate in Colorado Springs. The infiltration of Genetically Modified foods (unlabled) into our population’s food supply HAS AND WILL CONTINUE to have adverse effects on your food security, your economy, your jobs, your health, your fuel conservation and your local food price stabilization. Locally produced, REALLY natural, chemical free food, as it was...

Posted by Ruell on Sep 17, 2012

Edible City! Urban Ag Is Our Future

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Posted by Ruell on Aug 10, 2012

Local Food Is A National Trend!

From Colorado Springs to Boulder, from Madison to Nashville, to our very own Springfield local food is a coming trend. Why? Because only locally produced food takes fuel out of the price equation. I always tout the blessings of local food to include local food security, a local economy with jobs, improved health and local fuel conservation but the most important element, to my mind, is local food price...

Posted by Ruell on Aug 8, 2012

A Critical Mass For Real Food

A Critical Mass for Real Food By Anim Steel, YES! Magazine 07 August 12 The old logic of the slave plantation is still the logic of our industrial food system, 500 years in the making. There’s a new way of thinking, and it’s taking off. magine that you are in room. It’s about 30 by 30 feet. The floor is stone, and the walls and ceiling are a mix of stone and cement. They are a little...

Posted by Ruell on Jul 5, 2012

A Free Market? IT IS NOT!

Please read this important story. Here is the reason that small producers not only can’t compete in the market…. they can’t even GET to the market. As long as WE as CONSUMERS allow this to continue, our chances or regaining local food independence, local economy with jobs, improved health, local fuel conservation and local food price stabilization continue to diminish. Answer? Demand...

Posted by Ruell on Jun 16, 2012

The Logic Behind Local Food.

My Vision is the sustainable community. 70 years ago we had thousands of strong local economies across this country. These economies were not impacted by economies overseas, nor the fluctuation of neighboring economies. In my mind i know that the only way for our country to become strong again is to rebuild that local sustainability from the ground up; one city, one county, one state at a time. ...