From manufacturing jobs to agribusiness to affordable health care made available to more Americans, the GOP leadership is in the midst of pulling off one of the biggest bait and switch schemes in the history of campaign trail whoppers. Fortunately, the reality of market forces and economic fundamentals has a choke hold on some of […]
Posted on May 30th, 2017 by Ken
Filed under: Agri-tourism, Agriculture, Economy, Elections, Environment, Federal Budget, Fiscal Crisis, Health Care, House of Representatives, Jobs, Politics and Political Issues, Rural Issues, Rural Life, Uncategorized | No Comments »
By Adrianna Natsoulas You’ve heard about Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), where consumer pay for farm shares of produce at the beginning if the season and receive baskets of the harvest as the crops come in. Well the coastal counterpart to the CSA is Cape Ann Fresh Catch (CAFC), the first Boston-area Community Supported Fishery (CSF) […]
Posted on September 1st, 2009 by Debby
Filed under: Agri-tourism, Agriculture, Buy Local, CSA, CSF, Food, Rural Urban Partnerships | 4 Comments »
by Al Cross Will baby boomers “constitute the last generation of Americans to share an intimate, familial attachment to the land and water,” as suggested by Richard Louv in his book Last Child in the Woods? Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times ponders that question after a hike with his daughter, cut short by […]
Posted on August 5th, 2009 by Debby
Filed under: Agri-tourism, Conservation, Rural Life, Rural Urban Partnerships, The Environment, Uncategorized | 3 Comments »
