catapult magazine

Items tagged farming

• Some say the Midwest is dying

  A young couple mourns and celebrates the passing of time as they visit the small town of Hospers, Iowa.

• Tasting the good life

  As small farms around the world are succumbing to corporate agriculture, a southwest Michigan couple is embarking on the road of the small-scale farmer for the first time. An interview and photos tell their story and explain more about Community Supported Agriculture.

• Offering hope for local food sources

  In his first year as a CSA farmer, the author is grounded in the faith values that sustain his hard work.

• It can still be done

  One person's story shows one path to self-sufficiency.

• Fair trade coffee is for the birds!

  A basic, well-researched exploration of why fair trade coffee is important and what you can do to promote it in your community.

• Turning again

  A double review of The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness by Karen Armstrong and You Can Go Home Again by Gene Logsdon.

• The past is the future

  Sustainable agriculture’s solutions for biodiversity loss and rural poverty.

• Eating violence

  Exploring the troubling origins of our identities as creatures who are what we eat.

• Peas from a can

  A review of the 1947 young adult novel Judy's Journey by Lois Lenski, which chronicles the invisible history of migrant workers.

• Fidelity and fecundity

  A farmer reflects on lessons from twelve years of harvests that apply to growing vegetables and far beyond.

• Byron’s Recommendations 9.18.09

  Mini-reviews of three new books that will make you smile: on parenting, plenty and pranking.

• Fast food and forgetfulness

  Can our eating habits really induce us to forget God?

• The sacrament of meat

  An excerpt from Eat With Joy: Redeeming God’s Gift of Food.

• Found in translation

  Wrestling with a complicated ethno religious legacy.