Organic Blog 5 Keith Jones
This is the fifth blog on the subject of Texas creating the first organic label. Please read the first 4… Read More »Organic Blog 5 Keith Jones
Jim Hightower
Texas Organic Label part 4
Dennis Holbrook was appointed by Hightower to the Texas Organic Advisory Board that Dan Kelley was assembling that would craft… Read More »Texas Organic Label part 4
Texas Organic Label part 3
Hightower, in his crusade to save the family farmer, focused on efforts to market higher value-added food products in niche… Read More »Texas Organic Label part 3
Organic History in Texas Part 2
The twentieth century produced a revolution in agriculture. This was the third such revolution, the second being the one associated… Read More »Organic History in Texas Part 2
Texas Organic Label part 1
Texas has Bragging Rights to the First Organic Label in the United States Yep! Texas! Who would have thunk… Read More »Texas Organic Label part 1
How Hope Blooms: A Story of Rabbi Nancy Epstein
by Blake Herrera Imagine this: It’s Valentine’s Day. You walk into any supermarket in the state of Texas (be it… Read More »How Hope Blooms: A Story of Rabbi Nancy Epstein
Turkey Day Economics
The news from the Farm Bureau is that cost of Thanksgiving dinner is up 14% to a whopping $53.31. Of… Read More »Turkey Day Economics
Pesticides and the Right to Know
August 5th 1982, farmworker Sacharias Ruiz awoke at dawn in Bryan, Texas. He would not live to see the sun… Read More »Pesticides and the Right to Know
Sarah and the Two Jims
The 1980s were hard times for agriculture, the worst hard times since the Great Depression. When you look at the… Read More »Sarah and the Two Jims
Pesticides are Hell on Bugs and Not Much Better on People
People’s History in Texas is in the middle of a in-depth project collecting oral history and archives on the Jim… Read More »Pesticides are Hell on Bugs and Not Much Better on People