obamafoodorama.blogspot.com - 2/23/2009
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Obama Foodorama investigates how Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack's asphalt-bustin' publicity stunt for Lincoln's Birthday Bicentennial morphs from jackhammering pavement to a global veggie garden extravaganza, complete with ropin' the First Lady in, a fake picture on USDA's website, a ...
denverpost.com - 2/26/2009
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denverpost.com —
The Department of Agriculture recently released its long-gestating
definition of "naturally raised" meat. Previously, the word "natural"
had been ill-defined and virtually unregulated. The new standard is a step in the right direction for our nation's ...
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ecolocalizer.com - 2/17/2009
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ecolocalizer.com —
When times are tough, the tough plant victory
gardens! [Digging a Victory Garden. Creative Commons photo by
Tavis Ford ] Last Thursday, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack began turning a stretch of pavement at the Department of Agriculture ...
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USDA’s People’s Garden Project
gristmill.grist.org - 2/23/2009
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By Tom Laskawy Are there more small farms
or not? Everyone from Reuters to the NYT has
documented what appears to be an increase in the number of small farms in the U.S. But blogging ag economist and former USDA Economic Research Service ...
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USDA fudging the numbers
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Grist - the Latest from Grist —
... after all. Obamafoodorama (blissfully abbreviated as ObFo) has an amusing and edifying (and lengthy) disquisition on Tom Vilsack's much ballyhooed "People's Garden." When Vilsack ...
Digest - Blogs & Commentary: Gardening delight, garden delisted
The Ethicurean —
... Potemkin gardens, coming to a USDA office near you: And now, time for our regularly scheduled depression. Eddie finds out that the much-lauded USDA “community garden” was never intended to grow food, and probably never will. It was a photo opp that grew legs and ran with them all the way to Fairytale Village. (Obama Foodorama) Also on ObFo: Vilsack thinks his lack of ancestry knowledge ...
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