Photo by Rick Gush I can’t live without my garden scissors! Usually when I wax poetic about by my garden tools, I’m talking about sturdy, blacksmith-made shovels, picks and trowels that I can get here in Italy. Today, however, I’m going to laud one of my seldom-mentioned but often-used garden tools: my scissors. Many other […]
Photo by Nelson Zink It’s assumed most Native American communities are adept at farming grains and produce. So you can imagine how shocked Robert Mirabal, a two-time Grammy-winning musician of Taos, N.M., and actor in the 2009 Lifetime film Georgia O’Keefe, was to discover the opposite. Instead of sitting back and watching the demise of […]
Photo courtesy iStockphoto/Thinkstock This week, the State of Ohio agreed to abandon a rule that prohibited farmers from stating how their organic milk products were produced. On Monday, the State of Ohio agreed that it would no longer pursue regulations limiting the labeling of organic dairy products. Previously, Ohio had attempted to prohibit statements on labels […]
