Beth Hoffman has written extensively about food and agriculture and she's been a longtime educator, most recently as an associate professor of media students at the University of San Francisco. She's now a beginning farmer in Iowa with her husband, John. She's the author of "Bet the Farm: The Dollars and Sense of Growing Food in America." Her blog, “In the Dirt" is on Substack.
I started writing this post from the comfort of a coffee shop, my mug steaming over with warming liquid, the fancy acai bowl with peanut butter I ordered filling my belly. It’s a scene I was once familiar with as a city dweller and one I gravitate to when I want to write. Coffee shops […]
Here’s something I think about all the time while working on our farm: Trash. Not “trash” as in how much manure is generated by animals (there is a lot, but we move our cattle and goats many times a week and they are on pasture 365 days a year, so there is no one spot […]
