Checked out this story in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch about a hog farmer who is spreading the gospel of “natural farming.”
What does he mean by that?
Well, with a growing demand for humanely raised and slaughtered animals, Russ Kremer has come up with a model via Ozark Mountain Pork Cooperative and Heritage Acres. The PD notes:
Over the last decade, Kremer has become an evangelist for raising animals outdoors, with fresh air, room to root and run, and without antibiotics. In the process, he has persuaded other farmers to go the same route, helping to create — and feed — a growing appetite for meat raised humanely and largely without drugs.
Good for Kremer and for those who have the benefit of his farm’s bounty.
I love how Kremer got into this whole back-to-nature, sustainability business when a wound of his wouldn’t heal and he learned about antibiotic resistance. Talk about turning lemons into lemonade.
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I like this story a lot.VF.. have you heard of World Relief?It is an organization/mission that goes to countries to help people.One thing that I heard that they do is teach the people to irrigate so they can produce food all year. They provide the drip by drip hose needed to do this.You can give money to aide this cause. You can buy a goose or a goat. I love this way of using farming to build up a community and help them to bear fruit.
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Yes. It’s an LCMS program. I don’t think I’ve specifically blogged about it though.
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They both do similar things.I just heard about World Relief today.World Relief is not LCMS.www.worldrelief.org/But there is also one called Lutheran World Relief.www.lwr.org/I thought it was pretty interesting about teaching basic farming skills and setting them up to provide for their family.
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I like this story a lot.VF.. have you heard of World Relief?It is an organization/mission that goes to countries to help people.One thing that I heard that they do is teach the people to irrigate so they can produce food all year. They provide the drip by drip hose needed to do this.You can give money to aide this cause. You can buy a goose or a goat. I love this way of using farming to build up a community and help them to bear fruit.
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Yes. It’s an LCMS program. I don’t think I’ve specifically blogged about it though.
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They both do similar things.I just heard about World Relief today.World Relief is not LCMS.www.worldrelief.org/But there is also one called Lutheran World Relief.www.lwr.org/I thought it was pretty interesting about teaching basic farming skills and setting them up to provide for their family.
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