Don’t look now, but a record number of Americans have applied for food stamps, more than at any time since the food aid program was started in the 1960s. Experts attribute the swelling need for assistance to a mix of economic hard times and the rising costs of food staples. As we’ve written before, food […]
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Locally-grown foods may have a chance to compete with the industrial food complex when there is some infrastructure for local produce. Think about it. Most of the nation’s farmers markets are closed for the winter. When they are open, it is only for a few hours a week. Those that remain open between Thanksgiving and […]
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Looks like it will be at least another year before we see any raw milk for sale in Maryland. State legislators in Annapolis this week gave a thumbs down to unpasteurized milk despite the best lobbying efforts of the Maryland Independent Consumers and Farmers Association. Members of the House of Delegates’ Health and Government Operations […]
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