By Miryam Ehrlich Williamson Used to be, if you wanted to see moose you drove 200-300 miles north from here into Northern Maine, New Hampshire, or Vermont. This year they’re here in Warwick ( Mass.). Yesterday, three miles from my house, I came upon this young fellow. If I’d been speeding I’d have hit him; [...]
Posted on July 10th, 2010 by Miryam Ehrlich Williamson
Filed under: Climate Change, Rural Life | 3 Comments »
By Miryam Ehrlich Williamson Mary moved to our town a couple of years ago. A retired dog trainer, she brought ten dogs with her and rented a house from perhaps the only man in town with the courage to allow such a menage move into the house he’d grown up in — and next door [...]
Posted on July 6th, 2010 by Miryam Ehrlich Williamson
Filed under: Rural Life | 4 Comments »
from The Rural Blog Entrepreneurship is up across the country, but with the help of non-profit organizations and the rise of broadband Internet access, rural areas may getting more than their usual share of business startups. “From 2008 to 2009, the number of self-employed Americans increased by 200,000 to 8.9 million, according to Challenger Gray [...]
Posted on June 22nd, 2010 by DebbySKoz
Filed under: Economy, Internet, Rural Life, Telecommunications | No Comments »
By Miryam Ehrlich Williamson Soon after we got to Tiny Town in 1985 it became apparent that life would be easier if we had a tractor. My husband Ed, who grew up on a dairy farm about 20 miles east of here, as the crow flies, learned to drive a tractor before he learned to [...]
Posted on June 2nd, 2010 by Miryam Ehrlich Williamson
Filed under: Rural Life | 1 Comment »
By Al Cross “Between cartoonish reality shows and grotesque game shows, there isn’t much dramatic television giving big, clear windows into America,” David Masciotra writes for the Daily Yonder. “However, on the rare occasion that TV does get it right, it is often the stuff of pure emotive and intellectual brilliance.” Masciotra’s first example, his urban one, [...]
Posted on May 19th, 2010 by DebbySKoz
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By Miryam Ehrlich Williamson Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH09), the longest-serving woman in Congress, has filed a bill meant to increase the supply of fresh produce in America’s cities. H.R. 4971, the Greening Food Deserts Act, was filed March 25 with 23 co-sponsors. It’s now on the docket of both the Education and Labor and Agriculture [...]
Posted on April 6th, 2010 by Miryam Ehrlich Williamson
Filed under: Community Gardens, Kitchen gardens, Nutrition, USDA | 3 Comments »
By Miryam Ehrlich Williamson While school is in session — and, in some places, through summer vacation, too — about one-third of the energy a child takes in during the day should come from the lunch he or she eats at school. And the food that provides that energy shouldn’t be all starch and fat. [...]
Posted on February 24th, 2010 by Miryam Ehrlich Williamson
Filed under: Buy Local, Farm to School, Food, Nutrition, Rural Urban Partnerships, USDA | 1 Comment »
by Daphne Bishop It may not be spring yet, but 1000 Radishes are about to sprout up, and with them potentially far-reaching ways to connect local growers with the people who crave their wares. You may recall, we told you about 1000 Radishes last summer. It’s a high-tech way to find what’s in season, connect [...]
Posted on February 9th, 2010 by DebbySKoz
Filed under: Agriculture, Buy Local, Farms & Farmers, Food, Nutrition, Rural Life, Rural Urban Partnerships, Uncategorized | 5 Comments »
By Daphne Bishop As the old song says, “You must have been a beautiful baby.” But how does a baby stay beautiful and grow healthy and strong if all she eats are heavily processed commercial foods. That was the challenge facing Shazi Visram, CEO and founder of HAPPYBABY, a company in Brooklyn, New York that [...]
Posted on January 10th, 2010 by DebbySKoz
Filed under: Buy Local, Food, Nutrition, Rural Urban Partnerships, Uncategorized | 2 Comments »
By Al Cross University studies of the House-passed bill to limit climate change generally agree that American agriculture “would gain more than it would lose” in the long run, Charles Abbott of Reuters reports on a review of the studies by Kansas State University. “All of the studies said that costs of production would rise [...]
Posted on December 14th, 2009 by DebbySKoz
Filed under: Agriculture, Climate Change, Environment, Farms & Farmers, Rural Issues, Uncategorized | No Comments »
