Taking on Food Justice with Soul Fire Farm’s Leah Penniman
At Soul Fire Farm, Penniman takes the lead with farmer training, youth educational programming, and international solidarity with Haitian farmers and food justice organizing — all while continuing to be engaged with “anything that involves heavy lifting, sweat and soil.”
Poisoning Our Children: Pesticide Residues – EcoFarming Daily
In December 2014, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) sent out a news release to all the media outlets in the country about the results of its 2013 Pesticide Data Program (PDP). The headline: “Report confirms that U.S. food does not pose a safety...
Tractor Time Episode 13: 2017 Conference Highlights — Dr. Vandana Shiva, André Leu and Ronnie Cummings
Listen in as Acres USA’s Fred Walters leads a discussion between Dr. Vandana Shiva, a peace and food health advocate who came all the way from India, André Leu, president of IFOAM, who came from Australia, and Ronnie Cummings, founder of the Organic Consumers Association, an international group focused on real change in our food supply.
Glyphosate: A Toxic Legacy
Journalist and Author Carey Gillam Shares Decades of Research into Monsanto and its Ubiquitous Weed Killer Interviewed by Tracy FrischFrom the January 2018 issue of Acres U.S.A. magazine Carey Gillam is a Kansas-based journalist turned glyphosate geek. Her first book,...