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Beets, Historic Food Books, Conservation and Farming

It is one of the very few of these types of books that has a personal note. He has two or three pages in here that he talks about being born a slave and having to help out the family after an emancipation.


Vivian Halloran talking about the book Good Things To Eat As Suggested By Rufus. We go on a tour of old food books with her today.

The U.S. is the world's largest soybean exporter. China is the largest buyer. If the Chinese market collapsed, how would that affect American farmers' bottom lines?

From Harvest Public Media, will providing financial incentives encourage farmers to incorporate conservation practices into their work?

And our ingredient of choice today is… beets. Daniel Orr has two recipes for us that highlight this root veggie's underlying sweetness.

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