Flat Ryan Visits Graff Land & Livestock
Thanks to Judi Graff aka FarmnWife for hosting Flat Ryan at Graff Land & Livestock this week! Judi is really well known in social media circles as someone who triumphs farm blogging with her site FarmNWife.com and her Twitter handle FarmnWife. #FlatRyan found his way to our farm through our printer. (Very cheap way to […]
Visit to an Organic Farm in Minnesota Teaches Flat Ryan a Few Things
Minnesota farmer & blogger Carolyn Olson volunteered to get Flat Ryan out on their farm and it just so happened, that Ryan got to check out planting some cover crops! Carolyn and her husband, Jonathan raise organic crops and conventional pigs on their century farm. Carolyn is active in Farm Bureau, and is a member of […]
Chipotle takes on Big Food with animated Scarecrow
Do you remember the 2011 advertisement released from Chipotle restaurants? The one with Willy Nelson singing about progress and science and where Chipotle urged us to go Back to the Start. I wrote a few comments about the controversial campaign on this blog. The company has had a building campaign based on concepts like Food with […]
#FlatRyan Learns About Antibiotics In Milk
Tennessee dairy farmer Ryan Bright, who writes Silo Skies, took us up on the offer to host Flat Ryan on his farm! And Ryan Bright’s secret agent cows from The Udder Side watched what he was up to and they prepared the following blog post on it. Thanks Ryan! And we hope all of you enjoy […]
No Justice Band calls it quits
I really love my regional music and was blessed with 2 great years in Stillwater, Oklahoma – a mecca and birthplace for Red Dirt music – and another few years around nearby Amarillo. Most bands play in small venues, honky tonks, bars, rarely a full-sized stage, and there’s truly an intimacy to the shows that you’ll […]
Organic Junk Food is still… junk food
I came across this photo and had to laugh, pretty hard. Because it’s the truth. I was in the middle of a conversation via twitter about GMO foods when this question came my way: “Do you think people complaining about #GMOs have a doublespeak, consuming unhealthily over-processed food?” My response? Yes, from my experience, I […]
Do consumers really want to see where their food comes from? | CNN Eatocracy
Last week, I asked this question in my latest post on CNN Eatocracy. There were a variety of replies, mostly with concern for the ethics of eating meat. The majority of the 225 comments so far have missed the point. “How concerned are consumers about transparency in the food supply?” Read more here. I included […]