Posted in AnnArbor.com, Farm to Fork, Growing Goodies, Watch & Listen on April 6, 2011
Merely 5 miles north on Pontiac Trail, a vision is taking on substance. Tilian Farm Development Center is about to burst forth with active vegetables, animals, and people. As with so many things, it is nice to see a “before” picture, this is that picture. As I noted in January, Tilian Farm Development Center is [...]
Posted in AnnArbor.com, Farm to Fork, Growing Goodies, Watch & Listen on March 21, 2011
In my Farm to Fork series I visit local farms around Ann Arbor and share what I learn. “People aren’t willing to just eat potatoes and onions all winter long.” Tomm Becker, of Sunseed Farm, stands in the one of their two unheated hoop houses surrounded by dark earth and verdant vegetables. “We believe that [...]
Posted in Backyard Chickens, Farm to Fork, Growing Goodies, Watch & Listen on January 7, 2011
(Note: This article contains very vivid descriptions of chicken slaughter.) According to Human Rights Watch, the average speed of dead poultry moving past the inspectors in a slaughtering plant is 70 per minute. That means in the time it took you to read this last sentence you would have been expected to examine six birds for [...]
Posted in AnnArbor.com, Farm to Fork, Growing Goodies, Health, Miracles, Watch & Listen on November 22, 2010
Last summer was the third summer of Avalon Housing’s Edible Avalon program (in honor of the book Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn by Fritz Haeg), managed by Program Coordinator Kris Kaul. From one garden in 2008, the program has grown to 12 Avalon sites. Co-sponsored by Food Gatherers and Project Grow; there were [...]
Posted in AnnArbor.com, Backyard Chickens, Farm to Fork, Farmers Markets, Growing Goodies, Watch & Listen on November 8, 2010
In my Farm to Fork series, I visit local farms and share what I learn. John Harnois, of Harnois Farms, has been raising free range, hormone-free, antibiotic-free poultry for more than 15 years. Roosters crow, turkeys gobble, ducklings peep and geese cackle – a chorus of sound and movement welcome you to his farm. Harnois [...]
