First there was "Food, Inc.," now there's "Fresh." Director Ana Sofia Joanes is less judgemental than the folks who brought you Food, Inc., according New York Times reviewer Jeannette Catsoulis, but her movie is still an indictment of what many call industrial farming. Catsoulis says the "Fresh" is folksier than "Food, Inc.," and more focused on practical solutions. Will Allen, a Milwaukee urban farmer, is featured in the film for his attempts to broaden food choices in poor neighborhoods. And a name familiar to Lancaster Farming readers, Joel Salatin, is mentioned as a paradigm of small-scale agriculture. You can read the review here http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/09/movies/09fresh.html?scp=1&sq=fresh%20movie&st=cse
The movie has its own site, which includes playdates, here: http://action.freshthemovie.com/p/d/freshthemovie/event/events-display.sjs
    
     A beef-fed marathoner and one-time dairy princess had an impressive finish last month in the Boston Marathon. Marcia Itle, who grew up on a dairy farm in Cambria County, Pa., was actually sponsored in Boston by the National Beef Council. She started running in high school, figuring her daily two-mile run to feed the family calves had given her a head-start in the conditioning department. But there was a hard truth to be learned. After finishing in the back of the pack in her first season of track, she put her heart into training and eventually wound up winning. Lancaster Farming correspondent Linda Williams called on Ms Itle and prepared a report for our current edition, which you can also read here: http://www.lancasterfarming.com/node/2929

     An ode to the second-most important tool on the farm. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMZwa_WtSo8