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Plenty #11: No-till and Urban Ag at NOFA/Mass Winter Conference

Amazing no-till results, proof-of-concept urban agriculture, and learning “tracks” available for a curated conference experience

Plenty #10: Raising the Stakes of Fossil Fuels at Standing Rock

The human stories connected to social movements are, almost without exception, highly charged with emotion. Details about the violence and intimidation directed at protesters by corporations and law enforcement generate instantaneous, visceral reactions in people with any amount of compassion. The chronicles of the struggle of the Standing Rock Sioux, …

Plenty #09: Christopher Kimball Settles in on Milk Street

In Episode #9, Plenty talks with another icon of the food world, this time pioneer of the culinary airwaves, Christopher Kimball. The founder of Cook’s Illustrated magazine, and instantly recognizable host of the Emmy Award–winning “America’s Test Kitchen” from 2001 through 2016, he is also the author of best-selling titles …

Plenty # 5 — Sharing an Ocean Breeze with “Fresh Fish” author Jennifer Trainer Thompson

Whether you grew up on the shore or spent your life as a land lubber, Fresh Fish — A Fearless Guide to Grilling, Shucking, Searing, Poaching and Roasting Seafood will have you catching the scent of the beach on the wind.

Plenty # 4 — Railroad Street Youth Project’s Annual Culinary Arts Dinner

Chelsea Fosella (left) and Jennaya Jones practicing their skills during Railroad Street Youth Project’s 2014–2015 Culinary Apprenticeship Program. Jennaya, in her seventh culinary apprenticeship with RSYP, is now an intern at Red Lion and hopes to attend the Culinary Institute of America next year; submitted photo. GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — …

Peter Paul Rubens – Abundance (Abundantia) I cruised southward alone along a curving, coastal dream road in central Maine. I suppose it might have been on the North Shore. It might have been in the Maritimes, though never having been to that region of Canada, I wouldn’t know. The sky …

Plenty #3 — Timothy Snyder Warns of Next Genocide

Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning Timothy Snyder, Housum Professor of History at Yale, and author of “Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning;” photo by Ine Gundersveen, courtesy timothysnyder.org We spoke with Timothy Snyder about his recent work examining two necessary conditions for the Holocaust: disintegration …

Plenty #1 — Hard Cider Tasting at MASS MoCA

SIX Western Mass grower/fermentors offer their wares at the hard cider tasting in the Chalet 08/28 Bins will soon be full as apples near ripening in September; photo courtesy Headwater Cider. Don’t miss the hard cider tasting at the Chalet at MASS MoCA on August 28 from 6:30–8:00 …

Virginia Lawmakers Send Children Back to Work in the Tobacco Fields

The summer of my 14th birthday, I was filled with excitement and purpose. Beyond winning a sultry season of freedom from classes, reaching that age was an important milestone for me. I had a new ten-speed bike, and I’d finish up my chores as swiftly as possible and bang out …

Farm Ethics: On Taking a Life

The six week old pullet chick came hopping over to me the second I stepped into the brooder stall. I could not see, at first, what caused her gait to be so uneven. As I reached for her, she darted about eighteen inches away from me and then stopped. Then …