Wednesday, March 14, 2012

The state of Mennonite farming today

Five years after a special church conference met to examine issues facing Mennonite food producers and consumers, how are our farmers faring? In this feature report, Canadian Mennonite interviewed farmers across the country as well as going back to several people involved in that conference to ask what has changed since then. We also asked Cam Harder and Elaine Froese to write for us on these issues and report on how they were addressed at the recent J.J. Thiessen Lectures at Canadian Mennonite University. Ed.

A few weeks ago, I visited the farm of Reg and Bev Stow, bean growers from Graysville, Man., to buy a bag of beans for our 100 Mile Diet (an initiative to limit consumption …

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