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Photo: Jeff Roberson /AP\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/twyspy\">Twilight Greenaway\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/06/28/196645982/avocado-fed-pork-why-animal-feed-is-going-gourmet\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (6/28/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peanuts, flax, sprouts and avocados: It's not the menu at a health food deli, but the menu inside some barns. What's more, many farmers experimenting with these gourmet feeds are growing the ingredients themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> Take Russ Kremer, the Missouri pig farmer whose operation served as the inspiration for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMfSGt6rHos\">2011 Chipotle ad\u003c/a>. Kremer hasn't bought commercial animal feed in 30 years. Instead, he grazes his hogs in a pasture, and grows (or buys from neighbors) grains and legumes to supplement their nutrition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> Kremer and some of the other farmers developing specialty feed say they are willing to shoulder the extra cost and time to produce it because they're turned off by conventional feed mixes. The conventional mixes are what most of the hogs in the U.S. consume, and can include commodity corn and soybeans, blood protein, animal waste and rendered fats, according to Kremer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> Kremer also runs a co-op where farmers can pool resources to mill their own feed. \"We opt for grains like barley and oats as often as possible, because most corn and soy is now [genetically modified],\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> The scarcity of non-GMO corn and soybeans is what led hog farmers Kelley and Mark Escobedo of \u003ca href=\"http://www.southtexasheritagepork.com/\">South Texas Heritage Pork\u003c/a> to experiment with peanuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> Using their own 1950s-era mill, the farmers combine peanuts, peanut hay, and oats to boost the animals' protein intake and overall health — especially important because they raise their animals without antibiotics. The resulting meat has a delicate, nutty flavor that has helped them attract a loyal customer base willing to pay a higher price for the meat. \"I've never had anyone come back and say it's not worth it,\" says Escobedo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> She and other farmers even take custom feed requests. Case in point: One restaurant shaped a special meal around a single hog that the Escobedos fed avocados (along with the peanut-based feed) for the last 6 weeks of its life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \"The meat was soft and delicious,\" Escobedo recalls. \"It was the most delightful dinner I've ever eaten.\" (Pot-fed pigs are getting similarly rave reviews in Washington state, as \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2013/05/20/washington-state-butcher-spikes-pig-feed-with-weed/\">we've reported\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farmers are supplementing animal feed with other ingredients found in gourmet kitchens, too. To boost his animals' immunity, Kremer uses \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/26/science/chicken-farms-try-oregano-as-antibiotic-substitute.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=2&\">oregano oil\u003c/a>. To add omega-3 fatty acids, many cattlemen are adding the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2013/05/17/flax-seed-the-next-superfood-for-cows-and-beef/\">superfood flax\u003c/a> to feed. And Nigel Walker of California's Eatwell Farm not only grows his own wheat to feed his egg=-laying hens, he also \u003ca href=\"http://eatwell.com/2009/05/05/chickens-love-sprouted-wheat/\">sprouts the grains\u003c/a> for added nutrition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> Even as farmers learn to market meat from animals raised on special diets, only a small percent of consumers are willing to pay extra for it. 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They want organic [food], to not be a part of factory food.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_64234\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.mountaineersbooks.org/Backyard-Roots-P1112.aspx\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/BAB-farmers-2.jpg\" alt='\"Backyard Roots: Lessons on Living Local From 35 Urban Farmers\"' width=\"200\" height=\"229\" class=\"size-full wp-image-64234\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"Backyard Roots: Lessons on living local from 35 urban farmers\"\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yet each had different approaches to urban farming. Some were forced into activism and worked to changed laws, including Laura Allen of Oakland, an urban farmer whose efforts contributed to new regulations making it easier to use greywater for residential irrigation. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others turned their backyard farms into business opportunities. Krista and David Arias, for example, transformed their Portland, Oregon, urban farm into a bed-and-breakfast; while Seattle's Joan Engelmeyer combined her art career and urban farm to create the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityartfarm.com/City_Art_Farm/Home.html\">City Art Farm\u003c/a> program for kids. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some, like Farm Saeturn, just had cool backstories that illustrated their connection to the soil. Saeturn -- yes, her first name is really Farm -- tends several plots in a Seattle community garden the same way her family once did before they were forced to flee her native Laos: with a machete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When I was just up there, she was chopping up plants with a machete on a wood block and adding it to the soil immediately,\" Eanes says. \"I love seeing her because she's always wearing these crazy patterns with a great big hat. She's from another world.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eanes actually met more than 70 urban farmers but couldn't include them all in the book, so she started a \u003ca href=\"http://www.backyardrootsbook.com/\" title=\"Backyard Roots blog\" target=\"_blank\">blog\u003c/a> to continue the journey. Ultimately, she hopes the project will get people thinking about all the neat things they can grow in their own backyards or outdoor spaces, even if it's just a window ledge. \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"The whole book is about being inspired and getting ideas,\" she says. \"I just wanted this book to give some hope and show here's what you can do without a lot of money and it's really fun.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>It's not too late to still take advantage of the Bay Area's 10-month growing season, says Birgitt Evans, an Alameda County master gardener spotlighted in Eanes' book and co-owner of \u003ca href=\"http://pollinatefarm.com/\">Pollinate Farm & Garden\u003c/a> in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between now and August, we can still plant many summer crops, such as zucchini, cucumber, beans, winter squash, basil, tomatoes (determinate tomatoes that take less time to produce), corn and all the root crops, including carrots, beets, parsnips and turnips, Evans says. In early August, she recommends starting seedlings for crops such as cauliflower, broccoli and kale, all of which can be transplanted into the ground in September. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_64241\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/BAB-farmers-3.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/BAB-farmers-3.jpg\" alt=\"Evans, a master gardener, recommends talking to neighbors to find out what grows well in your neighborhood. Photo credit: Lori Eanes\" width=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-64241\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Evans recommends talking to neighbors to find out what grows well in your neighborhood. Photo credit: Lori Eanes\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>You don't have to have the ambition of an urban farmer to grow simple edibles for your table, Evans and Eanes say. We asked both, along with Heidi Kooy, a San Francisco urban farmer in \"Backyard Roots,\" for advice to help people get started.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>1. Start small\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>You don't need to invest a lot of money to get your garden off the ground. If you take on too much, you might get overwhelmed. Perhaps start with a couple quick wins, such as herbs and lettuces, before you begin experimenting and expanding.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>2. Take advantage of your available light and soil\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Pick the brightest spot in your outdoor space for most crops, but you can also take advantage of crops that grow well in partial sun, such as leafy greens. Kooy recommends doing an analysis of your soil to get an idea of any heavy metals that might be present. Build up the soil with compost mixed into the top soil before planting, or as a side dressing around crops already planted. Consider adding nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizers since most California soils are deficient in these nutrients, Evans says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Soil is the basis for everything in your garden,\" Evans says. \"That soil is going to help you get healthy plants, and healthy plants will resist diseases much better than unhealthy plants.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003ch2>3. Grow things you like to eat\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Eanes grows snow peas, greens and tomatoes in her backyard -- all things she loves to to eat, therefore ensuring nothing goes to waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_64238\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/BAB-farmers-4.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/BAB-farmers-4.jpg\" alt=\"Eanes showing off tomatoes planted in her rooftop garden in Bernal Heights. Photo: Tilde Herrera\" width=\"1000\" height=\"753\" class=\"size-full wp-image-64238\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eanes grows tomato plants on her rooftop garden in Bernal Heights.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"People are forever asking what they should plant,\" Evans says. \"My answer is always: What do you like to eat? There's nothing sadder than growing something in your garden and have it end up in the compost pile. I say this from a personal experience.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>4. Grow things that grow well in your area\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Kooy knows she doesn't get much heat in her San Francisco backyard so she avoids tomatoes. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I know I can grow kale, lettuce and peas like nobody's business,\" Kooy says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_64246\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/BAB-farmers-5.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/BAB-farmers-5.jpg\" alt=\"Heidi Kooy tends to produce and livestock in her Excelsior district backyard farm in San Francisco. Photo: Lori Eanes \" width=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-64246\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heidi Kooy tends to produce and livestock in her Excelsior district backyard farm in San Francisco. Photo: Lori Eanes\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Evans recommends talking with your neighbors who already grow edibles to find out what works well in your area. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>5. Work out how much you can eat\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It sounds like common sense, but once you harvest your crops, you have to eat them, Eanes says. Work out how much of a crop you can eat and plan accordingly. Give away or trade what you can't consume. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Crop swaps are becoming very popular,\" Evans says. \"I don't have chickens in my yard, but I know a lady who's got 25 chickens, so I trade various things with her in exchange for eggs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>6. Just keep trying\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Many people think they have brown thumbs, but everyone, even accomplished urban farmers, feel the brown thumb syndrome at some point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"You have to realize that failure is inevitable for every gardener,\" Kooy says.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The biggest challenge for aspiring gardeners is the fear of failing, Evans says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Many are afraid to take a packet of seeds and plant them because they're afraid they might fail,\" she says. \"But all of us fail, even those of us who've been doing this for 30-plus years. I just planted parsnips but I need to go back and replant parsnips because they didn't come up.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cstrong>Where to buy \"Backyard Roots\"\u003c/strong>\n\u003cli>Online at \u003ca href=\"http://www.mountaineersbooks.org/Backyard-Roots-P1112.aspx\" title=\"Mountaineers Books\" target=\"_blank\">Mountaineers Books\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Ecology Center in Berkeley; Books Inc., Green Arcade, Omnivore Books in San Francisco.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cstrong>Additional resources:\u003c/strong>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://acmg.ucdavis.edu\" title=\"Alameda County Master Gardeners website\" target=\"_blank\">Alameda County Master Gardeners\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>UC Master Gardener Program's \u003ca href=\"http://ucanr.edu/sites/gardenweb/\" title=\"California Garden Web\" target=\"_blank\">California Garden Web\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ipm.ucdavis.edu/\" title=\"Statewide Integrated Pest Management Program\" target=\"_blank\">Statewide Integrated Pest Management Program\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.eco-sf.org/\" title=\"Eco SF\" target=\"_blank\">The Ecology Center of San Francisco\u003c/a> (Eco SF)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfuaa.org/\" title=\"SF Agricultural Alliance\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Agriculture Alliance\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_64231\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/BAB-farmers-1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/BAB-farmers-1.jpg\" alt='Lori Eanes, author of \"Backyard Roots: Lessons on Living Local From 35 Urban Farmers.\" Photo: Tilde Herrera' width=\"1000\" height=\"653\" class=\"size-full wp-image-64231\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lori Eanes, author of \"Backyard Roots: Lessons on Living Local From 35 Urban Farmers.\"\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Photographer Lori Eanes became fascinated with urban farmers after reading books about the downside of our industrial food system. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the down economy left her with time on her hands and searching for a fun project, she focused her lens on the people who have turned their backyards into farms in West Coast cities from Berkeley up to Vancouver. Their farms and stories take center stage in her new book, \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.mountaineersbooks.org/Backyard-Roots-P1112.aspx\">Backyard Roots: Lessons on Living Local From 35 Urban Farmers.\u003c/a>\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"They are all pretty unique, but many have the same goals,\" Eanes says. \"They want to eat healthy, they are usually into sustainability. They want organic [food], to not be a part of factory food.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_64234\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.mountaineersbooks.org/Backyard-Roots-P1112.aspx\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/BAB-farmers-2.jpg\" alt='\"Backyard Roots: Lessons on Living Local From 35 Urban Farmers\"' width=\"200\" height=\"229\" class=\"size-full wp-image-64234\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"Backyard Roots: Lessons on living local from 35 urban farmers\"\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yet each had different approaches to urban farming. Some were forced into activism and worked to changed laws, including Laura Allen of Oakland, an urban farmer whose efforts contributed to new regulations making it easier to use greywater for residential irrigation. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others turned their backyard farms into business opportunities. Krista and David Arias, for example, transformed their Portland, Oregon, urban farm into a bed-and-breakfast; while Seattle's Joan Engelmeyer combined her art career and urban farm to create the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityartfarm.com/City_Art_Farm/Home.html\">City Art Farm\u003c/a> program for kids. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some, like Farm Saeturn, just had cool backstories that illustrated their connection to the soil. Saeturn -- yes, her first name is really Farm -- tends several plots in a Seattle community garden the same way her family once did before they were forced to flee her native Laos: with a machete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When I was just up there, she was chopping up plants with a machete on a wood block and adding it to the soil immediately,\" Eanes says. \"I love seeing her because she's always wearing these crazy patterns with a great big hat. She's from another world.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eanes actually met more than 70 urban farmers but couldn't include them all in the book, so she started a \u003ca href=\"http://www.backyardrootsbook.com/\" title=\"Backyard Roots blog\" target=\"_blank\">blog\u003c/a> to continue the journey. Ultimately, she hopes the project will get people thinking about all the neat things they can grow in their own backyards or outdoor spaces, even if it's just a window ledge. \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"The whole book is about being inspired and getting ideas,\" she says. \"I just wanted this book to give some hope and show here's what you can do without a lot of money and it's really fun.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>It's not too late to still take advantage of the Bay Area's 10-month growing season, says Birgitt Evans, an Alameda County master gardener spotlighted in Eanes' book and co-owner of \u003ca href=\"http://pollinatefarm.com/\">Pollinate Farm & Garden\u003c/a> in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between now and August, we can still plant many summer crops, such as zucchini, cucumber, beans, winter squash, basil, tomatoes (determinate tomatoes that take less time to produce), corn and all the root crops, including carrots, beets, parsnips and turnips, Evans says. In early August, she recommends starting seedlings for crops such as cauliflower, broccoli and kale, all of which can be transplanted into the ground in September. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_64241\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/BAB-farmers-3.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/BAB-farmers-3.jpg\" alt=\"Evans, a master gardener, recommends talking to neighbors to find out what grows well in your neighborhood. Photo credit: Lori Eanes\" width=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-64241\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Evans recommends talking to neighbors to find out what grows well in your neighborhood. Photo credit: Lori Eanes\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>You don't have to have the ambition of an urban farmer to grow simple edibles for your table, Evans and Eanes say. We asked both, along with Heidi Kooy, a San Francisco urban farmer in \"Backyard Roots,\" for advice to help people get started.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>1. Start small\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>You don't need to invest a lot of money to get your garden off the ground. If you take on too much, you might get overwhelmed. Perhaps start with a couple quick wins, such as herbs and lettuces, before you begin experimenting and expanding.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>2. Take advantage of your available light and soil\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Pick the brightest spot in your outdoor space for most crops, but you can also take advantage of crops that grow well in partial sun, such as leafy greens. Kooy recommends doing an analysis of your soil to get an idea of any heavy metals that might be present. Build up the soil with compost mixed into the top soil before planting, or as a side dressing around crops already planted. Consider adding nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizers since most California soils are deficient in these nutrients, Evans says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Soil is the basis for everything in your garden,\" Evans says. \"That soil is going to help you get healthy plants, and healthy plants will resist diseases much better than unhealthy plants.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003ch2>3. Grow things you like to eat\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Eanes grows snow peas, greens and tomatoes in her backyard -- all things she loves to to eat, therefore ensuring nothing goes to waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_64238\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/BAB-farmers-4.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/BAB-farmers-4.jpg\" alt=\"Eanes showing off tomatoes planted in her rooftop garden in Bernal Heights. Photo: Tilde Herrera\" width=\"1000\" height=\"753\" class=\"size-full wp-image-64238\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eanes grows tomato plants on her rooftop garden in Bernal Heights.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"People are forever asking what they should plant,\" Evans says. \"My answer is always: What do you like to eat? There's nothing sadder than growing something in your garden and have it end up in the compost pile. I say this from a personal experience.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>4. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Many are afraid to take a packet of seeds and plant them because they're afraid they might fail,\" she says. \"But all of us fail, even those of us who've been doing this for 30-plus years. I just planted parsnips but I need to go back and replant parsnips because they didn't come up.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cstrong>Where to buy \"Backyard Roots\"\u003c/strong>\n\u003cli>Online at \u003ca href=\"http://www.mountaineersbooks.org/Backyard-Roots-P1112.aspx\" title=\"Mountaineers Books\" target=\"_blank\">Mountaineers Books\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Ecology Center in Berkeley; Books Inc., Green Arcade, Omnivore Books in San Francisco.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cstrong>Additional resources:\u003c/strong>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://acmg.ucdavis.edu\" title=\"Alameda County Master Gardeners website\" target=\"_blank\">Alameda County Master Gardeners\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>UC Master Gardener Program's \u003ca href=\"http://ucanr.edu/sites/gardenweb/\" title=\"California Garden Web\" target=\"_blank\">California Garden Web\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ipm.ucdavis.edu/\" title=\"Statewide Integrated Pest Management Program\" target=\"_blank\">Statewide Integrated Pest Management Program\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.eco-sf.org/\" title=\"Eco SF\" target=\"_blank\">The Ecology Center of San Francisco\u003c/a> (Eco SF)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfuaa.org/\" title=\"SF Agricultural Alliance\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Agriculture Alliance\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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Henry Waxman's office on June 17, 2013 in Los Angeles, Calif. The protestors asked the congressman to vote against a House farm bill, which was defeated Thursday. Photo: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/143160021/daniel-charles\">Dan Charles\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/06/20/193926602/house-smacks-down-farm-bill-and-farm-lobby-too\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (6/20/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The so-called farm bill came to the floor of the House of Representatives Thursday. And it crashed. The defeat \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.rollcall.com/goppers/farm-bill-defeated-in-blow-to-boehner/\">shocked\u003c/a> many observers, but the vote wasn't even particularly close: 234-195. 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It included generous benefits to farmers, mainly in the form of government-subsidized \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/05/30/187346726/Congress-Poised-To-Make-Crop-Insurance-Subsidies-More-Generous\">crop insurance\u003c/a>. It did not include a host of proposed reforms: limits on crop subsidies; proposals to buy more \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/04/04/176154775/a-political-war-brews-over-food-for-peace-aid-program\">international food aid\u003c/a> abroad, rather than ship it from U.S. ports; and nationwide standards on cages for egg-laying chickens, an idea supported by the country's biggest egg producers and also the Humane Society of the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past, the full House might have let the Agriculture Committee have its way. Not this year. Libertarians and liberals alike ganged up to defeat it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://royce.house.gov/\">Ed Royce,\u003c/a> R-Calif., a senior Republican who tried unsuccessfully to reform the food aid parts of the bill, voted against it today. So did budget hawk Paul Ryan, R-Wisc. The conservative \u003ca href=\"http://www.heritage.org/\">Heritage Foundation\u003c/a>, which wanted deeper cuts in both food stamps and farm subsidies, called the bill's defeat \"a victory for the taxpayer and the free market.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill's supporters might not have anticipated that reaction. \"Lawmakers on the [Agriculture] Committee really underestimated the extent to which others were offended\" by the bill, says Scott Faber of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ewg.org/\">Environmental Working Group\u003c/a>, one of the leading critics of agricultural subsidies. Lobbyists for farm interests \"increasingly seem to have a political tin ear,\" Faber says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's unclear what happens next. 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Sugar production fueled the slave trade that brought millions of Africans to the Americas. As the Polaris Project, an anti-slavery organization, \u003ca href=\"http://www.polarisproject.org/human-trafficking/labor-trafficking-in-the-us/agriculture-a-farms\">notes\u003c/a>, agricultural work today is often isolated and transient, with peaks and lulls in employment due to changing harvest seasons. These conditions leave workers vulnerable, creating opportunities that farmers and food factory owners continue to exploit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new State Department report has many references to farm work: Malian children transported to Cote d'Ivoire for forced labor on \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2011/11/29/142891462/nestle-to-investigate-child-labor-on-its-cocoa-farms\">cocoa farms\u003c/a>, and ethnic Indian families forced to work in the Bangladesh tea industry, to name a couple. Some of these offending farms and factories serve only the local economy. But some are selling food products on the international market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As NPR's Michele Kelemen \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=193576474\">reports\u003c/a>, the State Department hopes that this year's report will hit home with Americans. And so an official reminds us that as consumers, we are at one end of a food supply chain that sometimes leads back to slavery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/biog/124083.htm\">Luis CdeBaca\u003c/a>, the official in charge of the office that monitors and fights trafficking, told Michele:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>\"This year's report looks at things like the fishing industry — and actually raises a question that I think all of us should be asking, which is: How much of my life is impacting modern-day slavery? Do I know where the shrimp is being caught or processed that is on my plate?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>CdeBaca's comment was a lightly veiled reference to shrimp farms and processing plants in Thailand, which labor groups claim are heavily reliant on migrant workers from Laos, Burma and Cambodia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of ongoing issues on shrimp farms and elsewhere, for the fourth year in a row, the State Department put Thailand on the \"Tier 2 Watch List\" for failing to increase efforts to address human trafficking, compared to the previous year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thailand is the source of one-third of all shrimp imported by the U.S. American retailers (and consumers) like it in part because it is cheap. Labor abuses at Thai shrimp factories and farms that export are well-documented. As PBS \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/world/july-dec12/thaishrimp_09-20.html\">reported\u003c/a> last year, Thai labor activists have documented abuses of Burmese migrant workers who work in the shrimp-peeling sheds that supply shrimp to larger factories for export to the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent \u003ca href=\"http://www.warehouseworkersunited.org/wp-content/uploads/Narong-Shrimp-Report_Final.pdf\">briefing paper\u003c/a> by the International Labor Rights Forum and the Warehouse Workers United noted labor abuses at Thai shrimp producer \u003ca href=\"http://www.narongseafood.co.th/\">Narong Seafood\u003c/a>, which has been a major supplier to Walmart and a leading shrimp processor for the U.S. market. But despite the prevalence of abuse, the paper recommends that Walmart not drop Narong as a supplier, but instead \"work with labor and human rights activists in Thailand to ensure the rights of the workers who produce shrimp for Walmart in Thailand are respected.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forced labor, including debt bondage, also continues to sustain palm oil plantations in Malaysia, also on the Tier 2 Watch List, and Indonesia. (Palm oil is used in lots of processed foods, from \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/03/12/174140241/can-dunkin-donuts-really-turn-its-palm-oil-green\">Dunkin Donuts\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2011/07/04/137539757/two-scouts-want-palm-oil-out-of-famous-cookies\">Girl Scout cookies\u003c/a>.) Cargill, the largest importer of palm oil and trader of 25 percent of the world's palm oil supply, \u003ca href=\"http://clients.squareeye.net/uploads/tft/M_Gupta_-_Cargills_Journey_On_Palm_Oil_-_April_2013.pdf\">says\u003c/a> it has a policy of not using any slave or child labor. But the Rainforest Action Network \u003ca href=\"http://ran.org/cargill-supplier-connected-illegal-logging-allegations-slave-labor\">has alleged that\u003c/a> one of Cargill's palm oil suppliers used slave labor on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even in the U.S., food workers aren't exempt from abuse and even slavery. As our NPR colleague Yuki Noguchi \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2013/05/16/184491463/disabled-workers-victory-exposes-risks-to-most-vulnerable\">reported\u003c/a> last month, men with intellectual disabilities who worked at an Iowa turkey-processing plant suffered severe verbal and physical abuse for over 20 years. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_63748\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/monsanto.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/monsanto-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"The sign at Monsanto headquarters in St. Louis. Photo: James Finley/AP\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" class=\"size-large wp-image-63748\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The sign at Monsanto headquarters in St. Louis. Photo: James Finley/AP\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/143160021/daniel-charles\">Dan Charles\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/06/19/193447482/and-the-winner-of-the-world-food-prize-is-the-man-from-monsanto\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (6/19/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ever heard of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.worldfoodprize.org/\">World Food Prize\u003c/a>? It's sometimes called the \"Nobel Prize for food and agriculture,\" but it has struggled to get people's attention. Prize winners tend to be agricultural insiders, and many are scientists. Last year's laureate, for instance, was \u003ca href=\"http://www.worldfoodprize.org/index.cfm?nodeID=47890&audienceID=1\">Daniel Hillel\u003c/a>, a pioneer of water-saving \"micro-irrigation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_63747\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 250px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/monsanto-fraley.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/monsanto-fraley.jpg\" alt=\"A pioneer in genetically modified crops, Robert Fraley has spent his entire career at Monsanto. He's now the company's chief technology officer. Photographer: Brian Schmittgens/Courtesy of the World Food Prize Foundation\" width=\"250\" class=\"size-full wp-image-63747\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A pioneer in genetically modified crops, Robert Fraley has spent his entire career at Monsanto. He's now the company's chief technology officer. 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Photo courtesy of Hip Chick Farms\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://insidescoopsf.sfgate.com/blog/2010/05/26/what-obama-ate-in-san-francisco-at-last-nights-17600-a-plate-dinner/\">Jennifer Johnson\u003c/a> & Serafina Palandech are partners in life and business: the duo co-founded \u003ca href=\"http://hipchickfarms.com/\">Hip Chick Farms\u003c/a>, a small batch company that fills a real need: chicken fingers, meatballs and wings that are quick-frozen minus hormones and fillers. Johnson brings culinary experience to the mix and Palandech's background is in event planning. Anyone who’s ever felt guilty over the “I’m a busy parent, here’s another quesadilla” dinner routine may find relief and surprisingly good—even for adults--flavor in Hip Chick’s products. The company’s Kickstarter campaign says it well: “Our goal is to raise, process, and distribute our chicken products and manage the process from beginning to end. There are no preservatives, hormones, antibiotics, or filler in our products, and by freezing them, we can ensure their quality and purity. With your help, we can fulfill our goal of providing families with products kids will love that are lovingly made -- from the way the chicken is raised to the way we cook them.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chef Jen Johnson’s current full-time gig is cooking for the Getty family in San Francisco while Palandech manages many of the operational aspects of Hip Chick Farms. While it is a Bay Area start up, the couple are also gearing up for the next round of growth that may likely include funding from investors. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>June is LGBT Pride Month and there is so much energy focused on equal rights for the LGBT community right now, especially in California. The Supreme Court is set to rule on Prop 8, California’s same-sex marriage ban this month as well as DOMA (Defense of Marriage Act), the federal law that defines marriage as only between a man and a woman. Regarding employment, professions that have been slow to open the closet doors are gradually yielding to the pressure and challenging homophobia within their systems. With that in mind, I asked Johnson and Palandech about their experiences. Their comments have been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay Area Bites: Chef Jen recently met President Obama via her work as a private chef in San Francisco. What was that like?\u003c/strong> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Palandech:\u003c/strong> President Obama came to a fundraiser at the home Jen cooks at a couple of months ago. Jen was invited to meet the President and have her picture taken with him, and carefully considered what she wanted to say to him. We love the President and his family, and are happy that he supports pro-gay marriage. When she met him, she said “Mr. President, my wife and my daughter and I love you and your family.” She had her photo taken with him, and as she was leaving, he pulled her back in and said “Hey, you tell your wife and daughter, 'hi' from the President.” He got it!\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_63684\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/72648_493504560704752_128158937_n.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/72648_493504560704752_128158937_n.jpg\" alt=\"President Obama with Chef Jennifer Johnson. Photo courtesy of Hip Chick Farms\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-63684\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Obama with Chef Jennifer Johnson. Photo courtesy of Hip Chick Farms\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay Area Bites: How did you two meet?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Palandech:\u003c/strong> Jen and I met at a fundraiser in San Francisco over five years ago. Three months prior to our meeting, my best friend came over to my house, and told me all about this amazing woman she had met the night before at the Lexington Club. My friend was convinced that this women was “the One” for me. At the time, I was in a relationship and was unwilling to hear anymore about it. A few months later, this same friend and I went to a fundraiser and met Jen. Jen and I immediately connected in an intense way. At the end of the night, my friend remembered where she had met Jen before -- and we realized that Jen was “the One” she had met months ago. My friend was right -- she was the One for me. I went home from that night, broke up with the person I was with, and we were engaged three months later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have been married for four years and had our daughter, Rubyrose, almost three years ago. After we moved from San Francisco to our lovely little farm in Sebastopol, we started \u003ca href=\"http://hipchickfarms.com/\">Hip Chick Farms\u003c/a>. We wanted to live our beliefs about sustainable food systems and make a line of products from Jen’s amazing recipes made with impeccable ingredients. We love working together. It is intense and amazing and really hard work. But we are really proud of what we have built together in the past year and a half.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_63715\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 900px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/family-ponies.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/family-ponies.jpg\" alt=\"Serafina Palandech, Jennifer Johnson and their daughter Rubyrose at Hip Chick Farms. Photo courtesy of Hip Chick Farms.\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-63715\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Serafina Palandech, Jennifer Johnson and their daughter Rubyrose at Hip Chick Farms. Photo courtesy of Hip Chick Farms.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay Area Bites: How do you support each other at home and in life?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Palandech:\u003c/strong> Gosh, I’m Jen’s biggest fan. I just think that she’s amazing and such a creative talented person and she works so hard. We have this shared vision of what we want our lives to be like and we’re taking this big risk together. It’s really stressful and we just try to support each other through this -- she’s commuting and working a full-time job while we have Hip Chick Farms. We try to take care of each others’ strengths and weaknesses. When I get stressed out, she calms me down and I do the same for her. Our ultimate goal is that we’re all together. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay Area Bites: You two are building a business together and recently traveled to tradeshows. What is it like to market and promote yourselves and your product?\u003c/strong> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Palandech:\u003c/strong> We really believe in transparency with our business. It’s important to us for people to know that we are a family business. It’s not like it’s a priority to be a \"gay business\" but it’s the truth that that’s what we are. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve gotten really positive feedback. With Jen’s amazing background people are impressed. It’s important for them to know where the product is sourced. Having Hip Chick Farms has really been positive experience. For us, that’s been wonderful. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We went to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.unfi.com/Pages/default.aspx\">UNFI\u003c/a> tradeshow in Portland for a major natural food distributor. People love it and get what we’re about there. The other show was for \u003ca href=\"http://www.tonysfinefoods.com/\">Tony’s Fine Foods\u003c/a>, which was different and more mainstream, and interesting. People like that Hip Chick Farms has a natural product and seem to respond really well to the fact that there’s real people behind it. We haven’t really gotten anything negative around it -- and we’re promoting it as a family business. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay Area Bites: What is a typical week like for you with Hip Chick Farms?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Palandech:\u003c/strong> I work from home and for a typical week, I am managing the manufacturing and work really closely with the factory as well as the people providing the ingredients. There’s a lot of selling in my job: talking to stores, and doing product demos, which are a very important part of our business right now. We have to meet and educate our consumers and tell people our story. I’m doing sales calls, and on the manufacturing side, I’m working with our distributors. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay Area Bites: You two have a young daughter and are still building a business. What’s that like?\u003c/strong> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Palandech:\u003c/strong> I have a lot of meetings while I’m holding her in my lap. I’ve had potential investors come in since we’re trying to raise capital. As a startup, we’ve bootstrapped our financing to date so now we’re trying to generate investors. We place so much value on being together as a family. I think it’s hard to do it all and it’s really important to me for our daughter to be a part of this as much as possible. My mom was just here for a week visiting from up North. For the Tony show, my Mom stayed with Rubyrose, our biggest fan. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay Area Bites: What was it like for you coming out professionally? When did you do it? What was your job at the time? Have you noticed a change over time?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Johnson:\u003c/strong> I basically came out when I started working at \u003ca href=\"http://www.chezpanisse.com/intro.php\">Chez Panisse\u003c/a> in 1991 at age 24. As you can imagine, I was met with open, loving arms at work. At home, coming out to my family was definitely more challenging and terrifying. I think working in the Bay Area and working with people who really believe in sustainable cooking and living -- they tend to be a lot more open-minded then maybe other restaurant cooks that are less about the food and more about the show...in more macho kitchens is where I saw a lot more homophobia. So, I basically knew in my gut to stay far away from those kitchens and restaurants. I truly feel that when chefs are connected to their food and where it was raised or grown they just naturally tend to be more open-minded and welcoming -- \"family table,\" come one, come all. Since 1991, the changes have been mind-blowing and yet there still needs to be more change, more awareness, and more tolerance! \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay Area Bites: What are your favorite places to eat and drink?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Johnson:\u003c/strong> We live In such a glorious bubble that I feel like most or all restaurants are very open and welcoming of all clientele. I tend to eat at the same places (which is not often): \u003ca href=\"http://www.zunicafe.com/\">Zuni\u003c/a>, Chez Panisse, \u003ca href=\"http://www.toscacafesf.com/\">Tosca\u003c/a> for drinks, and \u003ca href=\"http://tommasos.com/\">Tomasso's\u003c/a>. I also seek out hole-in-the-wall dive bars and am always trying to find the best pho and spring rolls in town! \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My gorgeous wife and our adorable three-year-old daughter just celebrated Pride in Guerneville by walking in the parade with a bunch of queer families. I had to laugh and reminisce that prior to being a “wusband” and parent, gay Pride weekend was always a blast and ended with a pretty good hangover! I love my life and I love how I've been able to celebrate my life in so many different wonderful crazy ways. Professionally, me being present and being my authentic self is my way of celebrating my gay Pride every day!\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Here’s The Story of Hip Chick Farms\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UisqXbqXjRI]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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I went home from that night, broke up with the person I was with, and we were engaged three months later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have been married for four years and had our daughter, Rubyrose, almost three years ago. After we moved from San Francisco to our lovely little farm in Sebastopol, we started \u003ca href=\"http://hipchickfarms.com/\">Hip Chick Farms\u003c/a>. We wanted to live our beliefs about sustainable food systems and make a line of products from Jen’s amazing recipes made with impeccable ingredients. We love working together. It is intense and amazing and really hard work. But we are really proud of what we have built together in the past year and a half.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_63715\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 900px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/family-ponies.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/family-ponies.jpg\" alt=\"Serafina Palandech, Jennifer Johnson and their daughter Rubyrose at Hip Chick Farms. Photo courtesy of Hip Chick Farms.\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-63715\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Serafina Palandech, Jennifer Johnson and their daughter Rubyrose at Hip Chick Farms. Photo courtesy of Hip Chick Farms.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay Area Bites: How do you support each other at home and in life?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Palandech:\u003c/strong> Gosh, I’m Jen’s biggest fan. I just think that she’s amazing and such a creative talented person and she works so hard. We have this shared vision of what we want our lives to be like and we’re taking this big risk together. It’s really stressful and we just try to support each other through this -- she’s commuting and working a full-time job while we have Hip Chick Farms. We try to take care of each others’ strengths and weaknesses. When I get stressed out, she calms me down and I do the same for her. Our ultimate goal is that we’re all together. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay Area Bites: You two are building a business together and recently traveled to tradeshows. What is it like to market and promote yourselves and your product?\u003c/strong> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Palandech:\u003c/strong> We really believe in transparency with our business. It’s important to us for people to know that we are a family business. It’s not like it’s a priority to be a \"gay business\" but it’s the truth that that’s what we are. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve gotten really positive feedback. With Jen’s amazing background people are impressed. It’s important for them to know where the product is sourced. Having Hip Chick Farms has really been positive experience. For us, that’s been wonderful. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We went to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.unfi.com/Pages/default.aspx\">UNFI\u003c/a> tradeshow in Portland for a major natural food distributor. People love it and get what we’re about there. The other show was for \u003ca href=\"http://www.tonysfinefoods.com/\">Tony’s Fine Foods\u003c/a>, which was different and more mainstream, and interesting. People like that Hip Chick Farms has a natural product and seem to respond really well to the fact that there’s real people behind it. We haven’t really gotten anything negative around it -- and we’re promoting it as a family business. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay Area Bites: What is a typical week like for you with Hip Chick Farms?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Palandech:\u003c/strong> I work from home and for a typical week, I am managing the manufacturing and work really closely with the factory as well as the people providing the ingredients. There’s a lot of selling in my job: talking to stores, and doing product demos, which are a very important part of our business right now. We have to meet and educate our consumers and tell people our story. I’m doing sales calls, and on the manufacturing side, I’m working with our distributors. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay Area Bites: You two have a young daughter and are still building a business. What’s that like?\u003c/strong> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Palandech:\u003c/strong> I have a lot of meetings while I’m holding her in my lap. I’ve had potential investors come in since we’re trying to raise capital. As a startup, we’ve bootstrapped our financing to date so now we’re trying to generate investors. We place so much value on being together as a family. I think it’s hard to do it all and it’s really important to me for our daughter to be a part of this as much as possible. My mom was just here for a week visiting from up North. For the Tony show, my Mom stayed with Rubyrose, our biggest fan. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay Area Bites: What was it like for you coming out professionally? When did you do it? What was your job at the time? Have you noticed a change over time?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Johnson:\u003c/strong> I basically came out when I started working at \u003ca href=\"http://www.chezpanisse.com/intro.php\">Chez Panisse\u003c/a> in 1991 at age 24. As you can imagine, I was met with open, loving arms at work. At home, coming out to my family was definitely more challenging and terrifying. I think working in the Bay Area and working with people who really believe in sustainable cooking and living -- they tend to be a lot more open-minded then maybe other restaurant cooks that are less about the food and more about the show...in more macho kitchens is where I saw a lot more homophobia. So, I basically knew in my gut to stay far away from those kitchens and restaurants. I truly feel that when chefs are connected to their food and where it was raised or grown they just naturally tend to be more open-minded and welcoming -- \"family table,\" come one, come all. Since 1991, the changes have been mind-blowing and yet there still needs to be more change, more awareness, and more tolerance! \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay Area Bites: What are your favorite places to eat and drink?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Johnson:\u003c/strong> We live In such a glorious bubble that I feel like most or all restaurants are very open and welcoming of all clientele. I tend to eat at the same places (which is not often): \u003ca href=\"http://www.zunicafe.com/\">Zuni\u003c/a>, Chez Panisse, \u003ca href=\"http://www.toscacafesf.com/\">Tosca\u003c/a> for drinks, and \u003ca href=\"http://tommasos.com/\">Tomasso's\u003c/a>. I also seek out hole-in-the-wall dive bars and am always trying to find the best pho and spring rolls in town! \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My gorgeous wife and our adorable three-year-old daughter just celebrated Pride in Guerneville by walking in the parade with a bunch of queer families. I had to laugh and reminisce that prior to being a “wusband” and parent, gay Pride weekend was always a blast and ended with a pretty good hangover! I love my life and I love how I've been able to celebrate my life in so many different wonderful crazy ways. Professionally, me being present and being my authentic self is my way of celebrating my gay Pride every day!\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Here’s The Story of Hip Chick Farms\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Story\u003c/strong> on \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/06/12/190712366/why-you-ll-be-paying-more-for-beef-all-this-year\">Morning Edition\u003c/a> [audio src=\"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2013/06/20130612_me_13.mp3\"] \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Post by Luke Runyon, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/06/12/190712366/why-you-ll-be-paying-more-for-beef-all-this-year\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (6/12/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you've experienced sticker shock shopping for ground beef or steak recently, be prepared for an entire summer of high beef prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.harvestpublicmedia.org/blog/1556/field-notes-drought-will-continue-haunt-beef-industry/5#.UbVNVZz9XTg\">Multi-year droughts in states\u003c/a> that produce most of the country's beef cattle have driven up costs to historic highs. Last year, ranchers culled deep into their herds — some even liquidated all their cattle — which pushed the U.S. cattle herd to its lowest point since the 1950s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And dry conditions this summer could cause the herd to dwindle even further. That means beef prices may continue on a steady climb, just in time for grilling season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Edwards Meats in Wheat Ridge, Colo., near Denver, workers divvy up the bright red ground beef into trays, sliding one into a glass display case. A laminated price tag is the final touch. Recently, the number on that slip of paper has been getting higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In the last three weeks, it has really jumped,\" says owner Darin Edwards. \"Most of our prices have gone up at least a dollar a pound or more.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price increases are commonplace when people start firing up their backyard grills, but Edwards says this year is different. Prices for certain cuts of beef have jumped to all-time highs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sometimes you throw a couple big, thick T-Bone steaks up on the scale and it's 30, 40 bucks, and [customers are] like, 'Yeah, I can't afford those,' \" Edwards says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it's not just T-Bones. The same story goes for New York strips, tenderloins and rib-eyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with the higher prices. Edwards is absorbing some of the cost. That's not something he can keep up for long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If it doesn't come back down in the next couple of weeks, we'll have to adjust our prices accordingly,\" he says. \"We just kind of bite the bullet for a little bit.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why are prices going up? Simply put, there just isn't enough feed. Because of the drought that has been battering much of Midwest cattle country for more than a year, there's a smaller supply of hay and dense grasses. Ranchers are having a tough time finding feed, and when they do, it's more expensive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the winter, Gerald Schreiber, whose ranch is in Last Chance, Colo., paid more than double what he usually does for hay. He usually maintains a herd of 250 cattle, but last year he prematurely sold more than 30 of his animals, unable to justify the high feed prices. With hindsight, he says he should've culled even deeper. A combination of drought, wildfire and wind transformed Schreiber's pastures into a blanket of invasive, noxious weeds. The fields haven't recovered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is pretty unpredictable country,\" Schreiber says. \"We deal with drought a lot. You got to get the rose-colored glasses off.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recent research shows that more than half of the country's beef cattle are in states where the pasture can't support large herds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A rancher has to make a decision,\" says Elaine Johnson, a market analyst with \u003ca href=\"http://www.cattlehedging.com/\">CattleHedging.com\u003c/a>. \"Do I buy expensive hay and try to hang on for another year? Or do I just liquidate my cows? Tighter and tighter supplies means higher and higher prices.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those higher prices mean more people could choose to forgo burgers and steaks this summer. Sales of beef have been down so far this year, while less expensive options, like pork, are up. Johnson says consumers can expect to pay more for beef as long as dry conditions persist across the high plains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you have a drought like this and have liquidated numbers significantly, it typically means that supplies are going to be reduced for two, three, four years, and it's one of the reasons why we've seen such a big increase in beef prices,\" Johnson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most economists agree and expect prices to stay high the rest of the year. Until ranchers can build up their herds, the family barbecue will put a bigger dent in the pocketbook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Luke Runyon reports from Colorado for \u003ca href=\"http://kunc.org/\">KUNC\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://harvestpublicmedia.org/\">Harvest Public Media\u003c/a>, a public radio reporting collaboration that focuses on agriculture and food production issues. 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Photo: Tamara Keith/NPR\" width=\"624\" height=\"391\" class=\"size-full wp-image-63289\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Third-generation Oklahoma farmer Scott Neufeld says crop insurance is important to his family's business.\u003cbr>Photo: Tamara Keith/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Story\u003c/strong> on \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2013/06/11/189546445/how-the-senate-farm-bill-would-change-subsidies\">Morning Edition\u003c/a> [audio src=\"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2013/06/20130611_me_02.mp3\"] \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Post by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/122805042/tamara-keith\">Tamara Keith\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2013/06/11/189546445/how-the-senate-farm-bill-would-change-subsidies\">NPR\u003c/a> (6/11/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Senate voted Monday to approve its version of the farm bill, a massive spending measure that covers everything from food stamps to crop insurance and sets the nation's farm policy for the next five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The centerpiece of that policy is an expanded crop insurance program, designed to protect farmers from losses, that some say amounts to a highly subsidized gift to agribusiness. That debate is set to continue as the House plans to take up its version of the bill this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For farmer Scott Neufeld, crop insurance is an integral part of his family's business. When the wind whips through his farm in northwestern Oklahoma, the wheat sways and looks like a roiling ocean — those famous amber waves of grain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's normal,\" says Neufeld, looking toward a tree blowing in the wind. \"They're predicting storms today, so that wind you hear is pumping up the moisture for the storms.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv align=\"center\">\u003ciframe class=\"vine-embed\" src=\"https://vine.co/v/bY53YPE2Xgn/embed/simple\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cscript async src=\"//platform.vine.co/static/scripts/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\">\u003c/script>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cbr clear=\"all\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a reminder of just what a precarious business farming can be. Although his crop looks good now, a violent hailstorm could wipe him out just before harvest. Every year there's the risk of a drought or even just a badly timed dry spell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You're relying upon what falls from the sky,\" Neufeld says. \"You have no spigot to go turn on when it gets hot or when the rains quit.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neufeld is a third-generation farmer with about 3,500 acres of wheat, canola, alfalfa hay and some cattle. He's able to manage the risk inherent in his business in part because of crop insurance, which is highly subsidized by the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neufeld says the last time he had to make a claim was in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was very, very dry — a very dry spring,\" he remembers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neufeld harvested far less wheat than expected, and his crop insurance made up part of the difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It by no means made up the complete income on the cash-flow projection that I had made,\" Neufeld says. \"But it was, you know, maybe 70 percent to be able to afford to keep going, pay the bills and and tighten our belts and go again for the next year.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neufeld buys a revenue protection policy. Most farmers do. It insures not just against yield loss from storms or drought but also from revenue loss, if commodity prices drop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's what I call the Cadillac of insurance products,\" says Bruce Babcock, a professor of economics at Iowa State University, who helped invent revenue coverage in the mid-1990s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, although Babcock supports the idea of crop insurance, he's a critic of how much taxpayer money goes into it. For every dollar of insurance premium, on average, farmers pay 38 cents. Taxpayers kick in 62 cents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Senate farm bill expands that insurance program and is projected to cost $89 billion over the next decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Crop insurance is not an insurance program. It's a social program,\" Babcock says. \"It's a regular farm commodity support subsidy program.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, he says, because of how American agriculture works, it's a social program that helps the biggest agribusinesses the most. The legislation does away with direct payments — a program that pays farmers whether they plant a crop or not — making insurance subsidies the central way the government will support the nation's farmers in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., who heads the Senate Agriculture Committee, says crop insurance \"is insurance — and the farmer gets a bill, not a check.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That bill that farmers get covers about a third of the actual cost, but Stabenow says the government subsidy is necessary. \"It's got to be a bill that they can afford to be able to provide the coverage,\" she said recently on the Senate floor. \"And then there is no payout unless you have a loss.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation passed Monday by the Senate also ties those insurance subsidies to conservation requirements, to protect farmland and streams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, many, including Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., say the crop insurance program is too generous. He offered a bipartisan amendment that would reduce subsidies for the wealthiest farmers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The No. 1 farmer in the country gets $1.9 million worth of subsidies a year,\" Coburn said during the floor debate. \"All we're going to do is cut his subsidy to $1.6 million.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That amendment passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For his part, Neufeld, the Oklahoma farmer, would be happy to pay his premiums year after year and never use his crop insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[But if] we get into a year where there's a major drought, our commodity prices fall out of bed for nothing under our control, then I think we need to have that safety net afforded to us by our government to keep us in business,\" Neufeld says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The House version of the farm bill also replaces direct payments with expanded crop insurance. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_63023\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/food-dump.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/food-dump-1024x767.jpg\" alt=\"A worker dumps a bucket of tomatoes into a trailer in Florida City, Fla. Much of the lost and wasted weight in fruits and vegetables is water, according to a report by the World Resources Institute. Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images\" width=\"1024\" height=\"767\" class=\"size-large wp-image-63023\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A worker dumps a bucket of tomatoes into a trailer in Florida City, Fla. Much of the lost and wasted weight in fruits and vegetables is water, according to a report by the World Resources Institute. 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And maybe even immoral, according to Pope Francis, who on Wednesday \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/pope-francis-wasting-food-is-like-stealing-from-the-poor/2013/06/05/d4dc167c-ce13-11e2-8573-3baeea6a2647_story.html\">likened\u003c/a> food waste to \"stealing from the table of those who are poor and hungry.\" And as \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2011/10/07/141123243/how-that-food-you-throw-out-is-linked-to-global-warming\">we've reported\u003c/a>, you also may be creating extra greenhouse gas emissions by sending food to a landfill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now comes yet another reason not to waste food: It also wastes a heck of a lot of water, a new report says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the World Resources Institute, an environmental think tank, inside the 1.3 billion tons of food wasted every year worldwide is 45 trillion gallons of water. This represents a staggering \u003cem>24 percent of all water used for agriculture.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And agriculture is already the world's biggest user of freshwater: The sector accounts for 70 percent of all use around the world, \u003ca href=\"http://www.unwater.org/statistics_use.html\">according to\u003c/a> the World Water Assessment Program. Those freshwater resources are diminishing fast, just as demand for them rises from millions of hungry and thirsty people joining the global population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, when it comes to water, not all food products are created equal. As WRI notes in its new \u003ca href=\"http://www.wri.org/publication/reducing-food-loss-and-waste\">working paper\u003c/a> on food waste, a pound of wheat flour on average contains 12 percent water and 1,639 calories, whereas a pound of apples, on average, contains 81 percent water and 766 calories. 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It represents only 4 percent of the total food wasted by weight, and 7 percent of the calories wasted, according to WRI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you'd like to know how your favorite foods stack up in terms of how much water they require, \u003ca href=\"http://www.waterfootprint.org/?page=files/Animal-products\">this chart\u003c/a> from the Water Footprint Network is pretty handy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for all the water in wasted food, we wondered where it goes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It depends on where people dispose of the lost or wasted food,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://www.wri.org/profile/craig-hanson\">Craig Hansen\u003c/a>, director of WRI's People & Ecosystems program and a co-author of the report, in an email to The Salt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For instance,\" he says, \"the moisture in food lost immediately post-harvest or during open storage will likely evaporate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, that water ends up back in the atmosphere. But that doesn't mean it'll return to the place from whence it came. Now that food is crisscrossing the globe, the water-stressed regions that produce fruits and vegetables aren't necessarily going to get their water back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for food that goes to a dump, the water could be locked in – so it's not available — if the dump is closed, Hansen says, or it could evaporate over time if the dump is open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Brian Lipinski, the lead author of the WRI report, notes, in arid North and West Africa and Central Asia, more than half of the fruits and vegetables in the food supply end up being lost or wasted. It works out to about 63 pounds of produce per capita in these regions, he writes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the developing world, farmers struggle with food loss long before it gets to the consumer. 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