A 50-Year Farm Bill?

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

The Washington Post’s Jane Black wrote a great Q & A piece in today’s paper with Farmer-Writer-Academic Wendell Berry; Wes Jackson, president of the Land Institute,; and Fred Kirschenmann, Leopold Center fellow and president of the Stone Barns Center. The three had traveled to DC to promote an ambitious proposal to legislators for a new [...]

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The 50-year Farm Bill: A Policy Based Upon Ecological Principles

Monday, January 5th, 2009

Farmer and Writer Wendell Berry and Land Institute President Wes Jackson share their views on soil loss and degradation, toxic pollution, dependency on fossil fuels in this op-ed published in the New York Times.

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