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Poking a Sharp Stick at the Farm

September 24, 2009

As green-clad protesters filled the streets of New York City in protest of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speech before the United Nations, a different set of Greens is planning to gather in Madison, Wisconsin this evening. They are farmers, and their grievance, they say, is that they have been misrepresented in Michael Pollan’s books. Pollan’s book on […]

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Shelved with: Food Systems|| Reading the Table
Tagged With: Agriculture, Bill Bruins, Bill Marler, Context, Criticism, Food, Food politics, Laura Daniels, Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma, Tom Still, University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, Wisconsin Public Radio
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Good Oak and Good History: Leopold’s “Sand County Almanac”

December 19, 2007

This entry is part 2 of 3 in the series Reading Aldo Leopold

Here, right here, is where it happened–the Leopold family and their farm, the acorn, the rabbits, the Civil War, the covered wagons (with all the Ingalls family times), the Great Depression, the dust bowl drouths, floods, storms, fires, extinctions, and acts of government; and the lightning, and the heat from the fire.

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Shelved with: Community & Time|| Continuing Stories|| History|| Reading the Land
Tagged With: Aldo Leopold, China, Education, Environment, Forest, Good Oak, History, Home School, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Reading Leopold, Sand County Almanac, StarLogo, University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin
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