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It’s a fact! 100% of men, women and children eat food, and 97.5% of must buy their food from others who bring it from an average of 2,000 miles away. And so the hungry ask: ”What’s in this tomato? Who planted that broccoli? Is it safe to eat genetically engineered corn? Why are they irradiating meat? Are we running short of water? Why is China growing our apples? What will happen to us if we can no longer farm? How safe is our food chain?” The Food Chain is an audience-interactive syndicated newstalk radio program and podcast broadcasting weekly on radio stations and streaming on demand on the internet. The Food Chain, which has been named the Ag/News Show of the Year by California’s legislature, is hosted by Michael Olson, author of the Ben Franklin Book of the Year award-winning MetroFarm, a 576-page guide to metropolitan agriculture. The Food Chain is available live via GCN Starguide GE 8 and delayed via MP3/FTP. For clearance and/or technical information, please call Michael Olson at 831-566-4209 or email michaelo@metrofarm.com
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Saturday Aug 03, 2024
Saturday Aug 03, 2024
JESSICA RIDGEWAY, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, FARM DISCOVERY AT LIVE EARTH
When people moved off the farm into the city, they took their children with them. What children find on the streets of the city does not appear to bode well for their future nor the future of country. And so we ask…
How can we lead children back to the farm?
I had the good fortune to having lived on the grandparents’ Montana farm when very young. I still remember, to this day, driving my first working tractor at the age of six. It wasn’t anything special. Grandfather Karl hoisted me up into the seat, put the tractor in gear, and said, “I’ll meet you at the end of the field.”
Every living thing on the grandparents’ farm had a job to do, and nobody– nor anything– got by without doing the work. It was not a policy laid down by the grandparents, who owned the farm. It was just life. If one did not work, one did not eat. It was true for the people, the animals and the plants in the fields. We all participated in the business of life.
Yesterday I had the privilege of accompanying a couple of Montana boys– Braxton, nine, and Cohan, six–to their first major league baseball game in the big city. Their enthusiasm for the game was infectious, and all who were seated around them in the stadium took joy in their excitement, especially when the six-year-old won the scramble for a foul ball.
As I enjoyed the boy’s enthusiasm, I wondered how that enthusiasm would be met by life in the city. On the farm enthusiasm and love of living were always well nurtured by the business of life. But what in the city can manage and give guidance to the enthusiasm of young boys and girls?
Not finding a ready answer, I ask…
How can we lead children back to the farm?
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