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• Hog-Tied: The Revolt Against the National Animal Identification System

  Our old friend Ethan Book's been wading headfirst into a legislative battle that has small farmers across the country up in arms. And yet the vast majority of consumers who it would affect have no idea this battle's going on at all. (On a quick tangent, Read More... Posted Friday, March 20, 2009 7:20 AM from Epicurious.com: Editor's Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Chicken, Meat, Farming, food safety, News & Gossip, Michael Y. Park, Law and Politics, Science & Technology, Ethan Book, Backyard Chickens

• Ten Links That Will Keep You Reading and Eating All Year Long

  Since this will be my last blog post for the foreseeable future here on the Epi-Log, I thought I would share ten websites that I love when it comes to great local food and small-scale farming. But, before we get to the list I just want to let everyone Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 31, 2008 2:30 PM from Epicurious.com: Editor's Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Farming, websites, Top 10 Lists, Ethan Book

• What Farmers Want Consumers To Know: Part Three

  Here is my third and final post in a little series I call, "What Farmers Want Consumers to Know". I sought the thoughts of a wide range of readers over at my Beginning Farmer blog and then added in a few of my own insights. The result has been an interesting Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 30, 2008 6:24 PM from Epicurious.com: Editor's Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Farming, Top 10 Lists, Ethan Book

• What Farmers Want Consumers to Know: Part Two

  Yesterday I began a series of posts to close out the year about what farmers want consumers to know. As generations have passed the close physical connection that most consumers had with the farm has passed. No longer do most Americans know a family member Read More... Posted Monday, December 29, 2008 9:10 PM from Epicurious.com: Editor's Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Farming, Top 10 Lists, Ethan Book

• What Farmers Want Consumers to Know: Part One

  As we close out 2008 I thought it would be interesting to find out what farmers want consumers (which is everyone) to know. Not that long ago most people in the United States had a relatively close connection to the farm. Either they were related to farmers, Read More... Posted Sunday, December 28, 2008 5:04 PM from Epicurious.com: Editor's Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Farming, Top 10 Lists, Ethan Book

• December Deep Freeze on the Farm

  They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but I'm not sure this picture can even begin to describe how cold it has been on the farm the past few days. We have reached actual temperatures of about -12ºF and wind chills way down into the -30ºF range. Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 23, 2008 8:56 PM from Epicurious.com: Editor's Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Farming, Ethan Book

• A Winter Day on the Farm

  I get a lot of questions from people when I mention that we farm, but one of the most asked questions is about what we do from day to day and how it all works with a town job and a family. It is a question that I am glad to answer since I think it is Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 17, 2008 9:44 PM from Epicurious.com: Editor's Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Farming, Ethan Book

• Could a New Tax Raise Your Grocery Bill?

  You may have heard of a new tax proposal that is making some noise lately, but this one really doesn't have anything to do with any of the recent election rhetoric or promises. The tax that I'm talking about would hit almost every segment of our economy Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 16, 2008 4:13 PM from Epicurious.com: Editor's Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Farming, News & Gossip, Ethan Book

• What is Your Foodshed?

  The all-knowing Wikipedia defines a foodshed as, "The concept of the foodshed is similar to that of a watershed; it is an area where food is grown and eaten. The size of the foodshed varies depending on the availability of year round foods and the variety Read More... Posted Saturday, December 06, 2008 4:48 PM from Epicurious.com: Editor's Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Farming, eat local, News & Gossip, Ethan Book

• Building Fence for the Cattle

  I mentioned on Monday that we received our first real snow of the year in Southern Iowa and how that makes winter chores just a little more difficult and time consuming. Yesterday, I got to put that to the test when my Dad and I spent an afternoon building Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 03, 2008 5:41 AM from Epicurious.com: Editor's Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Farming, Ethan Book

• Farm Chores Just Became More Difficult

  Thanks to five inches of snow that came over the weekend, my daily chores just became more difficult. Now before I go out to feed and water the animals, split or cut fire wood, or do some construction work I have to put on my coveralls and warm clothes. Read More... Posted Monday, December 01, 2008 11:00 AM from Epicurious.com: Editor's Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Farming, Ethan Book

• Foodies and Farmers: Be Thankful This Thanksgiving

  Whether you love the ideals of Earl Butz (bigger is better farming) or Michael Pollan (pastoral farming) we do have a lot to be thankful for here in the United States, especially when it comes to our food. As consumers we have a veritable cornucopia of Read More... Posted Thursday, November 27, 2008 8:55 AM from Epicurious.com: Editor's Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Farming, Ethan Book

• A Fine Day for Picking Corn

  For the past two days I have spent my afternoons helping a friend pick corn. This is the same man that we got the wagon load of corn from earlier. This year he had 20 acres planted in corn. (It was the first time he has planted corn in four years because Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 26, 2008 9:29 AM from Epicurious.com: Editor's Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Farming, Ethan Book

• Modern Day Gleaning of the Fields

  Recently, the Denver Post published an article titled, "Thousands glean fields in Platteville". It is about a large produce farm that gave away "tens of thousands" of pounds of produce because they wouldn't have time to harvest or sell it all before a Read More... Posted Sunday, November 23, 2008 6:35 PM from Epicurious.com: Editor's Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Farming, News & Gossip, Ethan Book

• Farmers Helping Farmers

  I'm not saying that it doesn't happen at all, but in today's world where machinery has enabled a farmer to do much of his work from a climate controlled cab and also in a society that some would say is more individualized, a farmer helping a farmer doesn't Read More... Posted Friday, November 21, 2008 9:47 PM from Epicurious.com: Editor's Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Farming, Ethan Book