Bay Area folks are invited to join us in Petaluma on June 23 for a discussion of a Farmers’ Bill of Rights. The growing California State Granges have, since 2012, been conducting meetings at Granges across the state to determine how best to support farmers, food producers and the rest of us in creating the…
Monthly Archives: June 2014
Agriculture, Hemp
The Pentagon’s Hemp Farm
by Christopher Fisher •
Here’s a fascinating photo of USDA botanist Lyster Dewey, with his Arlington Farm hemp crop, on the site of what will later be the Pentagon.
photo courtesy of the Hemp Industries Association
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Film
Movies We Can’t Wait to See: The United States of Amnesia
by Christopher Fisher •
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia. Film website Op-Ed by the filmmaker, Nicholas Wrathall, from The Advocate: Op-ed: Gore Vidal’s Lasting Legacy The director of a documentary about gay literary icon Gore Vidal says the author’s legacy has inspired others, whether they know it or not. BY Nicholas Wrathall June 05 2014 8:01 AM…
