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	<description>{ sowing seeds of sanity in an insane food system }</description>
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		<title>The March Against Monsanto : Who is Monsanto and why should you care?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 04:51:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Slow Foods Mama</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This coming Saturday, May 25, the March Against Monsanto gets underway in 36 countries around the globe. Yes, 36. I am excited and worried and hopeful. In my circle of experience, I take for granted that most people know who Monsanto is and why they&#8217;re bad news. I realized this week that I shouldn&#8217;t. So. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=slowfoodsmama.com&#038;blog=8028459&#038;post=2629&#038;subd=eatyourlawn&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vancouver Highschool gets Growing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 23:41:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Slow Foods Mama</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vancouver Highschool gets Growing Take a look at this Tumbler feed and tell me if it doesn&#8217;t just set your heart aflutter.  Somethin&#8217; about kids growing veg and raising eggs that gives me so much hope for humanity . . .<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=slowfoodsmama.com&#038;blog=8028459&#038;post=2626&#038;subd=eatyourlawn&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A word on compassion in farming</title>
		<link>http://slowfoodsmama.com/2013/05/14/a-word-on-compassion-in-farming/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 15:20:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Slow Foods Mama</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[FOOD POLITICS & AG-VOCACY]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Animal welfare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Compassion in World Farming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[joel salatin]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Omnivorous Complications &#38; Oversimplified Thinking Along with the rising interest in where our food comes from and how it&#8217;s grown, many people are educating themselves about how farm animals are treated. For the most part, I&#8217;d say it&#8217;s a good thing. Many of our food animals are raised in absolutely unacceptable conditions. However one consequence [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=slowfoodsmama.com&#038;blog=8028459&#038;post=2610&#038;subd=eatyourlawn&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>feed the soil</title>
		<link>http://slowfoodsmama.com/2013/05/06/feed-the-soil/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 02:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Slow Foods Mama</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[soil loss]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wes Jackson]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Out this morning at dawn before the boys woke up, watering, planting, spreading straw. Such rare moments these days, quiet time by myself in the garden. Moments like that I can forget about everything else, set aside the busyness, not have to keep one ear and eye open for the kid and dog and other [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=slowfoodsmama.com&#038;blog=8028459&#038;post=2598&#038;subd=eatyourlawn&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>birth, death, a near miss and other amusements</title>
		<link>http://slowfoodsmama.com/2013/05/04/birth-death-a-near-miss-and-other-amusements/</link>
		<comments>http://slowfoodsmama.com/2013/05/04/birth-death-a-near-miss-and-other-amusements/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 02:49:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Slow Foods Mama</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I often wonder if industrial farmers have as many adventures and as much excitement as I do here on our tiny little farm. What a crazy time! Maybe it&#8217;s because I have a two year old to provide me with a daily dose of perspective on life, or maybe my life is just a bit [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=slowfoodsmama.com&#038;blog=8028459&#038;post=2592&#038;subd=eatyourlawn&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>country mouse, city mouse</title>
		<link>http://slowfoodsmama.com/2013/04/12/country-mouse-city-mouse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 17:04:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Slow Foods Mama</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coghlan Cottage Farm]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[UNTOLD TRUTHS OF A HANDMADE LIFE]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I drove through my old neighbourhood yesterday on my way to a meeting downtown. Popped into my favourite bakery with the boy for our old regular treat, a french eclair. The pangs of homesickness caught me by surprise. I can&#8217;t believe how much I miss it. East Van, Commercial Drive in particular, is such a [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=slowfoodsmama.com&#038;blog=8028459&#038;post=2585&#038;subd=eatyourlawn&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Farm Update, March 2013</title>
		<link>http://slowfoodsmama.com/2013/04/01/farm-update-march-2013/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 23:05:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Slow Foods Mama</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coghlan Cottage Farm]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have been blessed with absolutely glorious weather the last little while. The whole family is rosy-cheeked and my hubby and son have matching farmer&#8217;s tans. At the end of March?!!! We have been making hay while the sun shines like crazy. There have lots of small tasks completed in the last little while, and [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=slowfoodsmama.com&#038;blog=8028459&#038;post=2562&#038;subd=eatyourlawn&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Help Save Farmland on Southern Vancouver Island</title>
		<link>http://slowfoodsmama.com/2013/03/28/help-save-farmland-on-southern-vancouver-island/</link>
		<comments>http://slowfoodsmama.com/2013/03/28/help-save-farmland-on-southern-vancouver-island/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 17:49:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Slow Foods Mama</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an urgent call to action! I&#8217;m calling on all my online girlfriends, farm gals, bloggers, readers, urban farmers, renegade homemakers and anyone out there who values local food, real food, saving farmland, heck &#8211; if you just like to eat, these folks need and deserve your help! Please help me spread the word [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=slowfoodsmama.com&#038;blog=8028459&#038;post=2540&#038;subd=eatyourlawn&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>reflection and renewal</title>
		<link>http://slowfoodsmama.com/2013/03/27/reflection-and-renewal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 21:59:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Slow Foods Mama</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coghlan Cottage Farm]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been a long winter here on Coghlan Cottage Farm. We have had not one, but two, Pineapple Expresses in the last few weeks. Seems to me they&#8217;d be a lot more fun if they involved more pineapple, less rain. All told the two storms, one week apart, brought us nearly 12 inches of [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=slowfoodsmama.com&#038;blog=8028459&#038;post=2524&#038;subd=eatyourlawn&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>january 2013 : farm update</title>
		<link>http://slowfoodsmama.com/2013/01/31/january-2013-farm-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 19:46:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Slow Foods Mama</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[hogs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been lackadaisical with my writing lately. Turns out my new wood-burning stove isn&#8217;t going to buy itself; that means more &#8220;real&#8221; work for Mama, less writing. In the meantime, we&#8217;ve also made some progress on the farm. Just look at that fence! AHHHHH!! We are brush-clearing MACHINES! Of course, this kind of work usually [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=slowfoodsmama.com&#038;blog=8028459&#038;post=2486&#038;subd=eatyourlawn&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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