(JTA) — We were out weeding squash last week when Fred came over to say he had to show me something but he feared it would lead to an act of violence. Regular readers will know Fred is the farm’s sole employee. (I believe the technical term is “farm hand.”) He’s also a devout Hare Krishna,…
Thinkstock Countless anxieties attended the planning for my first season farming. Losing my entire crop to deer was not among them. Neither of the Northeastern farms where I had worked previously worried much about these herbivores. One farm was large and could keep losses from deer to a minimum with a shotgun. The other was…
Thinkstock Last night, the rubber finally met the road. After months of work and worry, catastrophes averted and triumphs achieved, we took eight kinds of vegetables out of the ground, washed and packed them into boxes, loaded them onto a truck and delivered them to our 42 CSA members. (JTA) — Just before 5 p.m….
Getty Images Amar’e Stoudemire may have spent a little too much time around Israeli kibbutzim. The New York Post reports that the New York Knicks player has bought a 190-acre farm in Hyde Park, Dutchess County. According the Post, Stoudemire talkes about his new farm on a new MSG show, “In the Kitchen With,” which…
Palestinian villagers on Tuesday detained and beat up a group of Israeli settlers before freeing them, accusing the group of having thrown rocks at farmers tending their fields in the occupied West Bank. The incident added to simmering tensions between Israeli settlers and Palestinian villagers in the West Bank with the United States struggling to…
This story originally appeared on J. Weekly. Steve Schwartz’s mother did most of the cooking in his childhood home in suburban San Diego, but when his father, Miki, took to the stove, he had one specialty: mushroom omelets. “That’s the only thing he ever cooked, and from that, I think I got the idea that…
The brand new magazine Modern Farmer is no more for farmers than Sports Illustrated is for professional athletes, or Everyday Food is for chefs. It’s for the growing numbers of farm enthusiasts. Lured by a handsome portrait of a rooster on the front cover, I picked up a copy when it came out last month…
Palestinian farmers in Gaza began destroying three tonnes of herbs on Saturday, saying a prolonged closure of the crossing into Israel meant the plants were no longer fit for export to Europe. Last October, Israel lifted a five-year ban on the lucrative export of Gazan herbs and spices, imposed after the Islamist Hamas group seized…
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