| Mar 27, 2013 | Food / FarmingGlobal pork titan Smithfield has ranked second among food production companies on Fortune magazine’s 2013 list of “Most Admired Companies.” Before untangling how terribly strange and ironic this is, I’d like to address just what “most...
| | Food / FarmingIn the span of a few years, I’ve gone from weird to trendy. Why? I keep chickens — in San Diego. Here’s one sign of how times have changed. In 2009, the local newspaper’s editorial page excoriated me for trying to change local laws to allow chickens....
| Mar 20, 2013 | Food / FarmingYou might not be a master gardener, but odds are you grow one of the world’s healthiest vegetables in your yard every year. It’s a superfood that packs more calcium, iron, magnesium, and Vitamins C, B6, E, and K than an equal amount (by weight) of spinach....
| Mar 13, 2013 | Food / FarmingMillions of Americans will enjoy a beer tonight. The vast majority of them probably won’t realize that the wide variety of brands they see in the stores, bars, and restaurants come from just two foreign-based multinational companies that control 80 percent of...
| | Food / FarmingA friend and I once tricked his kids on St. Patrick’s Day. Maybe “tricked” is too strong of a word for what we did: The festive green pasta we served was spinach fettuccine, but we didn’t admit that it contained traces of the vegetable. The...
| Mar 6, 2013 | Food / FarmingThe nastiest looking insect I’ve ever seen crawled out of a hole near a dead stump in my garden the other day. I was weeding there, and I’m sure I disturbed it. To be honest, I was scared. This thing looked like it could bite me and it would hurt. I...
