Equal Time Ken Meter, one of the top experts on community food
systems in the US, discusses how local food networks thrive and how
they can help strengthen economies. Meter is president of the Crossroads Resource Center in Minneapolis.

Check out Jim Hogue's WGDR radio program at House At Pooh Corner.

Entergy wants to spin off ownership of Vermont Yankee, leaving the
parent corporation without liability for the nuclear power plant.
Vermont's Department of Public Service first opposed the move, but now
they have agreed to it.

I really like talking with college students, like Haik Kavookjian and Michael West of Middlebury, who are bright, passionate, and genuinely interested in honest dialogue about the future of Vermont and the United States Empire.

Carl Russell farms with horses and oxen in Bethel, Vermont, and he organized the third annual Northeast Animal Power Field Days
at the Tunbridge Fairgrounds, Oct. 17-18. Russell previews the events
and explains why animal power increases farmers' profits.

November 5, 2009

Brian Moyer, the new executive director of Rural Vermont,
explains how the organization plans to follow up on their legislative
successes by making sure the laws about raw milk, on-farm slaughter,
and other aspects of farming are working as intended and helping family
farmers.

New York state author, blogger, and homesteader Sharon Astyk discusses her new book, A Nation of Farmers: Defeating the Food Crisis on American Soil. Astyk sees the energy shortages of peak oil hitting us and our food system now, and she argues that US food security depends on 100 million of us starting to farm in the near future.

Four Vermonters also describe part of what they are doing to move Vermont toward much stronger local food systems:

Carl Russell, Earthwise Farm and Forestry in Bethel, organizes the

Vermont author Ron Krupp, who wrote The Woodchuck's Guide to Gardening, describes his new book, Lifting the Yoke: Local Solutions to America's Farm and Food Crisis. Carl Etnier hosts.

Vermont author Jim Merkel, who wrote Radical Simplicity,
marks the twentieth anniversary of his experiment living simply: on
$5,000 a year. He describes what led him to give up his life as an arms
dealer to live simply on the planet, and how he does it. Carl Etnier
hosts.

Ray Raphael, author of "Founders: The People Who Brought You a
Nation," shows how common people, as well as the well known power
players, shaped the American Revolution.