Buckeye Back Roads Tour cont.: It’s been somewhat of a whirlind since we launched on this final tour through Ohio. We stopped in Yorkshire, Ohio, where we met with the Kremers and the Smiths, both organic farming families … Continue reading
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We traveled further west to Norwalk, Ohio, where we were asked to participate in a Farmer’s Market that’s coordinated by Chrissy Houtz. Houtz is a Vegan vegetarian who opposes the cruelty of factory farming. We also discussed, among … Continue reading
Buckeye Back Roads Tour cont.: Campaigning last week, we spent the weekend at Ann and Tim Miller’s small farm in Lisbon, Ohio. They practice: “Apostolic Farming.” That is, they look at farming as a sacred trust between … Continue reading
I talked to a farmer from Othello, Washington, over the weekend. She said that on a farm you are tremendously dependent on oil products. Not only do you need gasoline to power tractors, combines, and the like, but … Continue reading
Buckeye Back Road Tour: We headed west out of Columbus stopping at Dan Kremer’s Eat Food For Life Farm in Yorkshire, Ohio. Mr. Kremer is an absolute evangelist when it comes to organic farming. His orientation is … Continue reading
Notes from my wife (and ‘almost First Lady’) Liz: “As we often do when we are home in Cleveland, I and the children volunteered at the Storefront Drop-In Center on Saturday morning. The Storefornt is a Catholic Worker … Continue reading
We met with Tim and Ann Miller in Lisbon, Ohio. They practice “apostolic farming.” That is, they look at the land as a gift from God and do everything organically — instead of pumping toxic pesticides, herbacides and … Continue reading
We went to a talk by Winnona LaDuke at Berea College in Kentucky today. Ms. LaDuke is an Ojibwe Tribe member from the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota. She is also the founder of the White Earth Land … Continue reading
While at Koinonia Community Farm in Americus, Georgia, I talked with John Hall who is the author of the book The West Window. The book is set in 1948, which Hall told me was a pivotal year in regard … Continue reading
I wrote a letter to the editor of several rural Ohio newspapers this week explaining about a “church farm” that we’d researched in Neola, Iowa, during Campaign 2000. An area farmer there left his 400-acre farm to St. Patrick’s … Continue reading