Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food
Where did you collect your most recent grocery haul? Try to remember the items you hastily organized on the conveyor belt at check-out. Now, where did all those come from?
1,500 is an important, if rarely recognized, number; it’s the average number of miles that produce travels on its way from an industrial farm to your dining room table. That is, unless you tend to shop for your produce locally.
Argus Farm Stop (or, “Argus,” if you’re familiar) is a business amalgam that can best be described as half “indoor farmers market” and half “hipster coffee shop/bakery.” The store features a cornucopia of produce, meat, and dairy grown by over 200 local farmers, 90% of whom are located within a 10 miles radius. Continue reading Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food →
How did the Environment Fare in the Midterms?
On today’s show, the IHIH gang share their hot takes on what the recent midterm elections mean for the environment moving forward. Bella breaks down a special millage proposal in her native Ingham County that protects certain farmlands and open spaces against urban development, and the Ann Arborite in the room (Ed) shares his thoughts on the city’s passage of Proposal A, which nixes Mayor Christopher Taylor’s deal with Chicago-based developer Core Spaces in order to turn the city-owned Liberty Lot into an urban green space.
Heena tells us about problems that some University of Michigan students had at the polls after registering with TurboVote in the weeks leading up to the election, and the whole crew updates listeners on several environmentally-focused proposals nationwide that were discussed on our October 26th show, including Florida’s Amendment 9, which conveniently bans both offshore drilling and indoor vaping, and Colorado’s Proposal 112, which would have required energy companies to drill farther away from private homes, schools, and hospitals.
You can find links to some of the other measures we covered in today’s show below:
Montana’s Initiative 186
Alaska’s Measure 1
Arizona’s Proposal 127
Nevada’s Question 6
Colorado’s Proposal 112
Colorado’s Amendment 74
Florida’s Amendment 9
Washington’s Initiative 1631
“Come of Age: The Case for Elderhood in a Time of Trouble” Author Stephen Jenkinson
On today’s show, we bring you a conversation between regular host Ed Waisanen and Stephen Jenkinson, author, teacher, storyteller, spiritual activist, and farmer. His most recent book, “Come of Age: The Case for Elderhood in a Time of Trouble,” considers North America’s paradoxical relationship with elderhood as the region’s population continues to age yet fails to integrate intergenerational wisdom into its cultural consciousness during a time marked by a changing climate and sociopolitical unrest.
Stephen Jenkinson will be coming to the Eastern Michigan University’s Student Center in Ypsilanti as part of his “Nights of Grief and Mystery” tour. You can find out more about Jenkinson on his website.
