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Agrarian Road Trip – Part Two.

View of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Brevard, North Carolina. Rural Revival: the Agrarian Tour through North Carolina, with a nod to rural Virginia On our venture into the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, we – Agrarian Road Trippers…

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Agrarian Road Trip – Part One.

Garlic Pickin’, Potluckin’ and Llamas: the Agrarian Tour through Kentucky and Tennessee We – Agrarian Road Trippers – have been visiting and trading stories with many a farmer across Kentucky and Tennessee. Learning the tales of the trade and dreaming…

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Show Me the Farm!

On our trip through the Midwest we visited many Community Gardens and Urban “Farms”. (quotations mine) About halfway through the trip I became very frustrated that we weren’t seeing any of what I would label “real farms”. I wrote in…

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‘Bad restaurant’ mob video

The Food Chain Workers Alliance, who HEART met at the US Social Forum, sent this link to this so-bad-it’s-good music video about Andiamo Restaurant. Watch it and weep – or dance if you are a Lady Gaga fan…

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Refugee families grow food in Louisville!

New Heights Baptist Church in Louisville has allowed the Refugee Agricultural Partnership Program (RAPP) to use a large piece of their land so 42 refugee families can grow their own food and market the surpluses. Stephen Bartlett coordinates the gardening…

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I Been Trippin’

In the last two weeks I have been bombarded by sights and sounds, experiences and conversations that have left my head reeling with pain and relief. As a country girl living alone, in a quiet apartment, in a small tree…

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Urban Agriculture!

by talitha… On the first day of the HEART trip, Jud Hendrix, our designated asker-of-spiritual-questions, asked us a deep one: If the roadtrip is the answer, what is the question? The question that immediately came to mind for me was…

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Agrarian Road Trip photos ~ part 2

Day 4 ~ Brevard and Asheville, NC Fred Bahnson, family farmer in Brevard, NC, is working with his wife Elizabeth to create a sustainable, organic, permaculture farm. Fred showing his trellis system. On the Bahnson porch hearing about Anathoth Garden….

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