Posts Tagged ‘Farmers’

‘Gentleman’ flexes AP muscle in Delhi

Tuesday, January 11th, 2011
New Delhi, Jan. 11: He came not to bury the Congress but to help his state’s farmers. So Jaganmohan Reddy claimed here today, styling himself a “gentleman” who wouldn’t topple the Congress in Andhra Pradesh even though he could.

Volunteers add muscle to grant to repair barn

Sunday, August 15th, 2010
By Carroll DeWeese CORRESPONDENT Several hundred volunteers from National Future Farmers of America, along with community members and Campbell Soup representatives, gathered over the Aug. 6-8 weekend to help restore the Charles L. Bowers School Farm Barn in Bloomfield Hills. People came locally and from several other states to help. Volunteers from age 7 to over 70 worked together. So many ...

Without Air, Food and Water we’re Dead

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009
Being the highly intelligent beings that we are, we pollute the air in favor of transportation versus breathing. We dump tons of chemicals and garbage into the waterways. We cover up prime agricultural land to build bedroom communities and cities, deny irrigation to farmers, make their workers illegal, decide that food is a commodity which people can make good money on by trading and creating a middleman who has nothing to do with growing or putting the produce on shelves. The wildlife has

Portland’s Charcuterie-Northwest-Style Prosciutto

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
Portland’s Charcuterie-obsessed chefs are prompting local farmers to feed hazelnuts to hogs, in the quest for a distinctive Northwest-style prosciutto-From The Wildcheff Motoya Nakamura/The Oregonian For a special-occasion splurge, a roast of hazelnut-fed pork is hard to beat. Local chefs say the nuts create lots of sweet, almost nutty-tasting fat that makes for super-succulent meat. Bacon fans, it’s time to meet the new pig in town. Get ready for hazelnut-fed pork, the latest