Day after day throughout these very different times since the start of the pandemic, my writer’s block had taken over. Unable to focus all of the tumultuous thoughts into text, I have instead been doing what I always have done…..work. Physical work has saved me time and again from difficult times and situations. My farm …
Farmers who switch face strict rules, higher costs, more red tape As a cardiorespiratory therapist in an intensive care unit and later as a nutritionist, Pamela Schreiber saw many people with grave ailments. Working in rehabilitation, she helped long-term smokers, asthmatics, people with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and postoperative cardiac surgery patients. “I worked with …
That which we owe our very existence to has somehow, over the last eighty years, become taken for granted. Soil is the starting point and life force for all creation. It has been paved over with thoughtless development, smothered with chemicals, and lost to run-off. In the same way, our food has become devalued. The …
Reality of modern large farming differs from romantic images If you closed your eyes and imagined a farm, you’d probably picture something like the one owned by Pam Schreiber in Westerlo. Her family’s white house fronts the property, with a red barn behind it. To the left, rows of planted vegetables stretch away from the …
Paving the Path for a New Tomorrow During this year’s State of the Union address, President Obama laid out an important call to action for our country: “This year let’s all come together, Congress, the White House, businesses from Wall Street to Main Street, to give every woman the opportunity she deserves, because I believe …
