By Chelsea Hetelson

The three-day Harvest of Hope Foundation Music and Arts Fest is back for its second year, March 12-14, at the St. Johns County Fairgrounds in St. Augustine.
The Harvest of Hope Foundation, a “non-profit organization that provides financial, educational, and service-oriented aid to migrant farm workers all over the country,” according to its web site, was [...]

By Lydia Fiser

The High Springs Farmers Market is the only market in Florida that accepts federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, formerly known as food stamps. So everyone in High Springs has the opportunity to eat Florida-grown produce that’s washed in in water, not pesticides, and bought from fellow citizens instead of a Super Wal-Mart. Although this isn’t the case in Gainesville now, Florida Organic Growers (FOG) and its partners in the city and county have a plan to change this and join High Springs in setting the precedent for other Florida cities.

By Travis Pillow

I’m excited that one of my favorite novelists – Jonathan Safran Foer – has a new book out in which his own struggle to break free of the factory farm takes the form of a personal narrative carries echoes many of the themes of his earlier work while addressing perhaps the most important issue of [...]

By Travis Pillow

It’s a good day for Bubba Kurtz when nobody craps in the parlor.
These days most dairies are crappy – covered in the feces of hundreds of cows, packed into industrial feedlots, injected with hormones and antibiotics, and engorged with chemical-laced feed, so they can’t help but shit themselves.
But Bubba runs one of Florida’s cleanest milk [...]