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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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…
Read more »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…
Read more »‘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…
Read more »Accra Confession and Globalization We Can Grasp
The Covenanting for Justice Online Curriculum is based on the Accra Confession. It was developed by the North American Working Group for Covenanting for Justice of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches (WARC) This group has also revamped the Accra…
Read more »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…
Read more »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…
Read more »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…
Read more »Feeding people since 1891: Detroit’s Eastern Market
Before leaving Detroit and the US Social Forum, the Road Trippers stopped by to stock up for the ride south and to check out this enormous farmers market.
Read more »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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