Recent discoveries in quantum physics, microbiology, and ecology verify something gardeners have long known. Everything in nature is related. There are no solid lines between the plants’ roots, the soil, and the bacteria and fungi tying it all together. To help understand why garden crops do or do not thrive, we are led into the…
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The Barefoot Farmer is signing books today! 5 pm @ Armours Red Boiling Springs Hotel Come out for the fun of it!
Published in the Macon County Chronicle – January 31, 2012 We have a new book, Barefoot Farmer II. I say “we” because of all the work done by the designer and typesetter, Victoria, and the illustrator, Linda. “We” also includes Kathryne, Gabby, and the rest of the Macon County Chronicle staff, who turn my weekly…
This year begins with an update to our website. A new look that we hope you’ll like. We’ll be making the transition in the coming days. Hopefully, the changeover to a new theme will go smoothly, so bear with us as we tweak and fiddle. Any suggestions to help us improve will always be welcomed. Alan and…
Dec. 6, 2011 http://www.tennessean.com/article/20111206/NEWS21/312060047/Haslam-Speed-up-chicken-farm-permits?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|FRONTPAGE|s FRANKLIN — Gov. Bill Haslam said Monday that his administration is trying to speed up the time it takes for poultry farms to get environmental permits. The Republican governor said after a speech to the Farm Bureau that his goal is for the state to strike the “right balance between…
1:06 PM, Dec. 6, 2011 http://www.tennessean.com/article/20111207/LIFE02/312070082/Nashville-blogger-stirs-up-massive-cookie-bake-off Purchase Image Lindsay Landis laughs as her mixer splashes her blouse while she makes cookies. More than 620 bloggers are sharing cookies, and their recipes, later this month. / GEORGE WALKER IV/THE TENNESSEAN On Oct. 24, local food blogger Lindsay Landis dropped an idea into cyberspace like a…
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http://www.grist.org/article/parker1 21 Feb 2006 6:51 PM A person driving through the South might notice the chicken houses dotting the hills and flatlands. He might marvel at the larger ones, as long as a football field. He might react to their gagging stench for a moment, and then forget as he travels on. But those who…
Good day, let me add to the Barefoot Farmer’s fight. I have a home in Clay county located in a Lake View Estates subdivision of 20 plus homes & more being built. Back in ’07 Cagle & Keystone built a CAFO with 6 buildings that house 150000 birds. We tried to fight it with over…
by Mark Bellinger RED BOILING SPRINGS, Tenn.- The man known as the “Barefoot Farmer” is fighting to keep chicken houses away from his organic farm. Jeff Poppen may have already lost the first battle. Construction has already started just a few hundred feet from his back door and he fears the houses could kill his…
http://biodynamicsbda.wordpress.com/2011/11/02/downwind-downstream-and-downhill/ November 2, 2011 by biodynamicsbda By Karen Davis-Brown ©Long Hungry Creek Farm Imagine that you live in a paradise. Long Hungry Creek Farm is located outside the town of Red Boiling Springs, in Macon County, in the hills of north central Tennessee. It is one of the oldest (established in 1974) and largest (250…
Here is what Cobb wrote back to a letter writer, who was kind enough to share Cobb’s response to their letter with us: “Thank you for recent letter. We respect your right to express your views about plans by a Macon County family farmer to build chicken houses near Jeff Poppen’s property; however, we also…
Here is the detailed schedule for this year’s conference: 2011 BD schedule (pdf)
VOL. 35 | NO. 34 | Friday, August 26, 2011 Green Business Young farmer leads while learning from the past By Hollie Deese Eric Wooldridge never intended to come back to the Bells Bend area of West Nashville after college. In fact, the 24-year-old thought it was the last thing he would do. But…
[The EPA admits freely the potential dangers of CAFOs in this short, concise statement. –Alan] How Do CAFOs Impact the Environment? Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) are facilities where large numbers of poultry, swine, cattle or other animal types are confined within a much smaller area than traditional pasture operations. The concentration of the wastes…
Impacts of CAFOs on Rural Communities[i] John Ikerd[ii] http://web.missouri.edu/~ikerdj/papers/Indiana%20–%20CAFOs%20%20Communities.htm The only thing that promoters and opponents of large-scale confinement animal feeding operations (CAFOs) agreed on is that CAFOs invariably create conflicts in rural communities. The CAFO promoters accuse the opponents of being emotional, uninformed, radicals, opposed to modern agriculture and to progress in general. The…
Report Jul 26, 2011 Reforming Industrial Animal Agriculture Contact: Dave Bard, 202.778.4551 & Jamie Shor, 202.339.9598 Related Resources Press Release Videos: Broilers and the Chesapeake Polluting Poultry in the Chesapeake Photo Gallery Broiler chickens (raised for their meat) are produced by the millions in industrial facilities concentrated in just a handful of states, and much…
Here are the details about Solstice this year. Solstice has its own website, but here is what it it says: ADMISSION – New this year – Gate opens Thursday ! THURSDAY $ 50.00 per person FRIDAY $ 40.00 per person SATURDAY $ 30.00 per person 14 and Under Free with Paying Adult FRONT GATE PROCEDURES…