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- Mark Runquist
- What state do you live in?
- Iowa
- What is your primary organization affiliation?
- Not in the NE, but looking to interact with sust ag communicators. Member of Practical Farmers of Iowa, Iowa Network for Community Agriculture, run a small farm, currently working on contract with Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture.
- Website address #1:
- http://highhopesgardens.com/blog
Mark Runquist's Blog
Feedback on op/ed/Essay Advocating Values not Economic-based Justification for Alternative Ag/Energy
I've posted an essay/op/ed piece trying to tease out why the word "Activist" is used as a pejorative and arguing for a values-based justification for sust ag, instead of trying to get naysayers to go along based on economic thresholds only.
Here in Iowa, PFI founding member Dick Thompson says it most succinctly in this time of rapidly consolidating farms and communities " Would you rather have your neighbor or your neighbor's farm?" I hope that soon, the… Continue
Here in Iowa, PFI founding member Dick Thompson says it most succinctly in this time of rapidly consolidating farms and communities " Would you rather have your neighbor or your neighbor's farm?" I hope that soon, the… Continue
Posted on February 9, 2010 at 9:32pm
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