Table of Contents

January/February 2008

Cover Story

For the Love of Food and Farmers: Last year’s 10 best sustainable ideas as compiled by Touch the Soil staff. These brief snapshots provide a glimpse of some of the nation’s best innovators and creators. Complete stories are found in the respective past issues.

Feature Stories

Farm to School: The best educational and nutritional enhancement to public health and education this century.

Uprising Organics: Making wise food choices works for local organic farmers and food stamp recipients.

The Secret Life of Soils (Part 1 of 3): An awareness of what's underneath our feet will help us find the way to health and sustainability.

Food Stocks & Food Storage: Picking up were our ancestors left off.

Lehi Roller Mills: An icon of our agrarian heritage, Lehi Roller Mills evokes nostalgia and a return to local food.

Food Storage Insight 1: Alternative milk sales go through the roof.

Food Storage Insight 2: How big can private food storage get?

Food Storage Insight 3: People are stocking up.

Grasping Sustainability:

The Secret Life of Soils (Part I of III): An awareness of what's underneath our feet will help us find the way to health and sustainability.

Milk Choices: More consumer options.

Money in Gardening: A tale of 100 cabbages.

Winter Canning Can Be Fun: Orange jelly and hot sauce.

The Nature of the New World: Nature shrinks as the human footprint grows.

1940s Farmers Market: An unusual photo journal of a farmers market almost 70 years ago.

Saving Farmland: Our personal journey.

In Each Issue

Grass-Roots Viewpoint: Our agrarian heritage.

In The News: Happenings around the nation.

Food Sleuth: Hormone-free milk: what the body needs.

Book Review: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver

Global & Domestic Food Outlook: Two Glasses of Milk. Can two glasses of milk affect the food economics of the world?

Economics Outside the Box: Totally Outrageous. Is money sustainable and what's its role in our food economy.

Peter Puffin & Freddie Frog: Have we lost our loving feeling towards farming?