{"id":6451,"date":"2020-10-11T20:40:20","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T00:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=6451"},"modified":"2020-10-11T20:42:37","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T00:42:37","slug":"in-support-of-a-50-year-farm-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/in-support-of-a-50-year-farm-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"In support of a 50-year farm bill&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8230;by a giant in the field of regenerative agriculture.&nbsp; No one has better captured the beauty of farming in sync with nature than Wendell Berry.&nbsp; The Kentucky farmer, poet, writer and environmentalist writes in the Atlantic in support of the 50-year farm bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/national\/archive\/2012\/11\/the-50-year-farm-bill\/265099\/\">https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/national\/archive\/2012\/11\/the-50-year-farm-bill\/265099\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While Berry may stand alone in his wordcraft, I do want to mention an even earlier writer I think qualifies as the father of the sustainable ag movement:&nbsp; Louis Bromfield.&nbsp; His Malabar Farms had a big impact on even my city anchored family in the 40s.&nbsp; I still recall my mother and father reading aloud from Malabar Farms at our dinner table.&nbsp; Still on my personal bucket list is a visit to Malabar Farms in Ohio which is now a museum and park open to the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bromfield was a Hollywood screenwriter who moved to Ohio to reclaim a worn out farm.&nbsp; Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall were married at Malabar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>David<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;by a giant in the field of regenerative agriculture.&nbsp; No one has better captured the beauty of farming in sync with nature than Wendell Berry.&nbsp; The Kentucky farmer, poet, writer and environmentalist writes in the Atlantic in support of the 50-year farm bill. https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/national\/archive\/2012\/11\/the-50-year-farm-bill\/265099\/ While Berry may stand alone in his wordcraft, I do want to mention an even earlier writer I think qualifies as the father of the sustainable ag movement:&nbsp; Louis Bromfield.&nbsp; His Malabar Farms had a big impact on even my city anchored family in the 40s.&nbsp; I still recall my mother and father reading aloud from Malabar Farms at our dinner table.&nbsp; Still on my personal bucket list is a visit to Malabar Farms in Ohio which is now a museum and park open to the public. Bromfield was a Hollywood screenwriter who moved to Ohio to reclaim a worn out farm.&nbsp; Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall were married at Malabar. David<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[153,13,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture","category-david","category-environment"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6451"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6453,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6451\/revisions\/6453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}