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September/October 2006
Lynn Byczynski 
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, which produces food for more than 1,000 families in the Chicago area. Recently, those shareholders helped the farm acquire 38 adjacent acres.

Farmer John and the crew at Angelic Organics have also written a quirky cookbook: Farmer John's Cookbook: The Real Dirt on Vegetables. It provides hundreds of seasonal recipes from CSA members and farmers, and most of them offer new ways of preparing the familiar: Baked Cucumbers in Basil Cream, Saut?ed Radishes with Arugula, Sweet Zucchini Crumble. But there is much more than recipes in the cookbook's 360 pages, including comments from the cooks, letters from CSA members, excerpts from Farmer John's weekly newsletter, essays by nutrition experts and even a few poems. These tidbits spice up the basic fare and offer readers the flavor of an unusual and admirable farm.

The Real Dirt on Farmer John, which has earned numerous awards, will be available on DVD in 2007. Learn more at www.angelicorganics.com or www.therealdirt.net. To order Farmer John's Cookbook: The Real Dirt on Vegetables, visit MotherEarthShopping.com.
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  • TOM MITCHELL 9/29/2006 12:00:00 AM

    Hello mother earthI live in Australia and I continually see the
    pverty of USA farmers in small towns in various media artciles over
    the years.If the USA could gtev over its HEMPlunacy, then the
    farming sector there and here could be revived and given its huge
    bio diesel potential let alone its 101 other uses, farms in the USA
    could become real businesses again, plus reduce imports by hundred
    of billions of dollars per year.I was in the middle east last week
    for work and even there the normal people I spoke with see the USA
    like I do as a contradiction in terms.It was interesting because I
    say to people when overseas lets look at what we have in common and
    not what we have that is different.You claim to be a first world
    country, but have labour rates for the low end lower than australia
    and Canmada. Compared to here a very poor social security system
    and people work 7 years to gte 3 weeks of holidays when in
    Australia its 4 week from day one, and I am an employer and agree
    with this.Plus you spend 14% on healthcare , pay twice what we do
    for the same drugs and operations and we we spend 8% of GDP and we
    live 3+ years longer on average than people in the USA.It would be
    good for Americans and the world if you had things more like Europe
    and Australia and it does not cost a fortune.Regardstom

  • JOHN Parfitt 9/29/2006 12:00:00 AM

    Pleased to hear the heartwarming story on #farmer John but he
    had better watch out for the actions of the FDA, "guardian" of US
    organic standards. It has just been asked to retrospectively
    approve a variety of genetically modified rice from Bayer test sown
    in open fields some years back and now known to have contaminated
    organic and non-organic conventional varieties. Much information on
    the characteristics of this rice, never commercially grown, has
    been concealed. If approved, it will deal a heavy blow to organic
    farming in the US.

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