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What do you think of when you think of Kansas beef? The old Kansas City Stock Yards? The feed lots? Old Dodge City? You might, but to be in touch with contemporary food, you probably should think about ranches and packing plants, too. That’s because beef in Kansas is huge. Kansas may be the Wheat [...]

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In honor of Earth Day, I direct you to Umbra’s handy and simple guide on what you can do to be kinder to the earth. To celebrate, I ate my lunch of local eggs and toast outside in the sun. And tonight, I’ll go hear Gary Nabhan talk about “The Geography of Food Endangerment.”

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(Note for feed subscribers: This corrects title of Nabhan and Kindscher’s paper.)
I need to know more about weeds. All stars are pointing that direction.
First, there were Ed’s and Jennifer’s blog posts about their foraging for food. Then, I looked into what Gary Nabhan is all about in advance of his upcoming talk Tuesday at [...]

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Can I go a day without corn? Well, sure. I did it yesterday—at least I think I did—and it wasn’t even hard. Not sure I’d want to do it for an extended period of time, however, as I’ll explain in a minute.
But first, you may wonder why I did it in the first place. Well, [...]

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Have you found that grocery shopping is trickier than it used to be? Sure is for me.
I say that as someone who does not mind grocery shopping, at least as long as I can avoid it with the throngs on Saturdays and the geriatric set on Thursdays. (That’s the day after the grocery ads come [...]

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I splurged on the Kaw Valley Farm Tour recently and bought three whole, pasture-raised chickens. (Various studies report pastured chickens are better for the environment and better for people eating them (go to page 13 of the report on that link to find the health benefit information).

Although these chickens costs less than others I’ve seen, [...]

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