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	<title>Down to Earth - Raising Cattle, Kids and Consciousness</title>
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	<description>Facts, opinions and reflections on being a techno-geek granolarancher Mom</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:26:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Nourishing the Community</title>
		<link>http://downtoearthblog.com/foodproduction/nourishing-the-community/archives/229</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:35:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sara</dc:creator>
		
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This is a guest post by Hona Backstrom, a college student doing an internship at Wild Type Ranch.
 When bought directly from its maker, there is a story behind each vegetable, fruit, baked good, or steak. The farmer, baker or rancher knows each article from its creation to its consumption. They have, usually with the help [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maybe local is going mainstream</title>
		<link>http://downtoearthblog.com/foodproduction/maybe-local-is-going-mainstream/archives/227</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:57:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sara</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[There was a very nice article about Joel Salatin (made famous to many in The Ominvore&#8217;s Dilemma).  There are lots of nice articles about Joel, but what made this one news-worthy to me is that it was picked up in the daily news feed of BEEF magazine.  BEEF is a mainstream beef industry publication. 
The beef [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open Prairie Natural Angus:  a lesson in misleading brand names</title>
		<link>http://downtoearthblog.com/foodproduction/open-prairie-natural-angus-a-lesson-in-misleading-brand-names/archives/225</link>
		<comments>http://downtoearthblog.com/foodproduction/open-prairie-natural-angus-a-lesson-in-misleading-brand-names/archives/225#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:31:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sara</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Why does it come as a surprise to the beef industry that consumers are losing faith in products from the big packers?
Through a trade e-newsletter, I came across Tyson&#8217;s new Open Prairie Natural Angus branded beef, whose promise &#8220;is to produce wholesome beef the natural way&#8221;. 
We are obsessed with providing food that is as good as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are you adult enough to know the REAL Santa?</title>
		<link>http://downtoearthblog.com/parenting/are-you-adult-enough-to-know-the-real-santa/archives/223</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 15:15:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sara</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[If I was forced to select a single word by which to live my life, it would be &#8220;integrity&#8221;.  The night I woke up at 3 am, with the seeds of this ranch planted in my head, I pledged to live my life by that single word and to build this dream around it. My kids [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thanks to you at Thanksgiving, Mom!</title>
		<link>http://downtoearthblog.com/parenting/thanks-to-you-at-thanksgiving-mom/archives/222</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 02:40:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sara</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Mom:
At Thanksgiving, it is appropriate to be, well, thankful.  All this past month I’ve tried to start each day with gratitude for some part of my life.  A group of my friends have been sharing their thanks online with each other.
It occurred to me that I ought to be sharing my thanks with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USDA researching (and supporting) localizing food production</title>
		<link>http://downtoearthblog.com/economics/usda-researching-and-supporting-localizing-food-production/archives/221</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:45:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sara</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Encouraging news (via the American Farmland Trust):  The USDA-ARS (Ag Research Service) is actively researching and supporting on the feasibility and actuality of eating local on the East Coast.
The idea is to ultimately build a map that shows where, along the nation&#8217;s East Coast, people would have the opportunity to buy locally produced food — [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Great Beef, it out there and it&#8217;s local</title>
		<link>http://downtoearthblog.com/foodproduction/great-beef-it-out-there-and-its-local/archives/220</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:21:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sara</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I often encounter reluctance to try local pastured meats (much less pay a premium price for them) because there is a general bias in this country that &#8220;grain fed&#8221; is higher quality.  I suspect most of Wild Type Ranch&#8217;s first-time customers buy our beef because of one or more of the following reasons; we&#8217;re local, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carpe tortuga</title>
		<link>http://downtoearthblog.com/meat/carpe-tortuga/archives/219</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 03:38:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sara</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes we need a little reminder about our &#8220;highest calling&#8221; in this life.
It&#8217;s a tough time to be in business for one&#8217;s self, and to be in the ranching business seems to be even tougher.  Sometimes, my husband and I think we&#8217;d be better off just holding the ranch as an investment in land, rather [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Responsible ground beef, how can it compete?</title>
		<link>http://downtoearthblog.com/foodproduction/responsible-ground-beef-how-can-it-compete/archives/218</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 01:50:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sara</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a post that’s been begging to be written ever since the NY Times article came out.  In fact, I could write several posts, but I’ll restrain myself.
Ground beef is the protein backbone of the American diet.  For such a food staple, people are surprisingly ignorant about how it is processed.  Even Chowhound admitted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s not throw out the baby</title>
		<link>http://downtoearthblog.com/foodproduction/lets-not-throw-out-the-baby/archives/217</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 14:51:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sara</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[From my very first post, I&#8217;ve maintained that local/alternative/progressive or whatever label you want to use is not an either/or choice for American Agriculture. Deputy Secretary of Ag, Kathleen Merrigan, said it very eloquently and completely yesterday as she discussed the KYF2 (Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food) program more in-depth.
Our food production and distribution [...]]]></description>
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