From the Iroquois Confederacy of the East to the Nez Perce of the Pacific North West, the remarkable TV miniseries, How The West Was Lost tells the authentic story of American history through the eyes of the Native Peoples who lost their lands to the wave of European immigrants that swept across the country as [...]

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Marin Agricultural Commissioner Stacy Carlsen has just played Judas in his county by negotiating a contract with the state that will give him nearly $150,000 for continuing to foist the ludicrous light brown apple moth (LBAM) eradication program on the community he is supposed to serve. If you live in Marin, you’ve already seen the [...]

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Three to five times a day, 365 days a year, you will find us in the kitchen on our organic family farm, preparing good vegan meals and snacks from scratch. Growing and preparing utterly fresh, delicious foods occupies a major portion of our time and, for us, provides the surest route for finding joy in [...]

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If you grew up in the 70′s-80′s decades, chances are, you may have run into High Feather in the classroom or on summer vacation. Let me give your memory a little jog. High Feather was produced by the Bureau of Mass Communications and the New York State Education Department and chronicled the experiences of eight [...]

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Vegetables and herbs are seldom grown for their flowers – but they could be! Every year, I am astonished anew by the unique flowers that come as a bonus of beauty on our family farm. Herb and vegetable flowers offer exquisite color, memorable form and…of course…a life-giving harvest. Sometimes, when my husband is deeply engaged [...]

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What thoughts, words and images come to your mind when you think of 1950′s food? If, like me, you weren’t alive at that time, perhaps your brain conjures up a picture of packaged wonder products, a poor understanding of nutrition and a society-wide preoccupation with conformism, all glossed over with black-and-white scenes of happy, smiling [...]

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Some 50 years have passed since Rachel Carson published Silent Spring – a book heralded by her contemporary society as the Uncle Tom’s Cabin of its era. I have just finished reading Linda Lear’s very thorough biography of Rachel Carson’s life and wonder if anyone could contemplate the story of this remarkable woman without feelings [...]

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Is your family working towards better self-sufficiency by creating your first vegetable garden or turning the land around your house into a real, working farm? You’re in good company. Friends of ours in the seed business tell us that vegetable seed sales went through the roof this spring – double or triple what they’ve been [...]

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If you have only ever eaten packaged tortillas, you have yet to meet the real tortilla – the tortilla that has been the bread of the Americas for thousands of years. Something that has lasted this long has to be uniquely good, but you won’t find it in a sealed plastic package at the supermarket. [...]

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When it comes to beauty in the garden and flavor on the table, beets are hard to beat! Posting has been light here at VeganReader.com while we’ve been busy with spring planting on our organic family farm. Now, having just set down my fork from eating my first plate of mouthwatering baby beets, I’m ready [...]

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