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Bikers for Broccoli.
Pastor Duncan Overrein of Crossfire Biker Church I’m not much of a biker chick (I proudly ride a scooter, dude) and precious few people confuse me with an evangelical Christian, but I have to tell you,...
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A short rant about food.
The good stuff… Something’s wrong with the way we eat in this country. Or maybe it’s just what we eat in this country. Because we’re packing away a whole lot of this: Soybeans as far as the eye can...
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Despair & hope in the Delta.
Traveling from Appalachia to the Arkansas Delta was a shock to me. I thought I was prepared to see poverty – heck, I’ve been seeing poverty this whole year of travel with Heifer – but there was...
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A song of reconciliation.
It’s difficult for an outsider to fathom the profound repercussions of the genocide in Cambodia, or how pervasively it has affected that country. Even Keo Keang, Heifer Cambodia’s adorable country...
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The life of rice.
If you want to understand Asia, you need to understand rice. But I realized that as many lusciously green rice fields as I’ve seen this year, I know nothing of how it’s grown. So I asked Heifer’s own...
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Bon bons, lots of mud, and the Lotus position.
I hate to pick favorites (my favorite country is always the last one I’ve been to). But in every country I visit with Heifer, there will be (at least) one person that I can’t get out of my mind. A...
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The many ecological wonders of Leonard’s world.
Leonard Manda is a big man with a big heart and big ideas. He’d better be. As Heifer Malawi’s program director of the Enhanced Community Resilience Programme, Leonard is responsible for helping 1,600...
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Viva Vega Alta!
The mighty ceiba tree is not supposed to be blooming.. but the climate is changing. On Day 3 of my trip to Ecuador, we drove up from the watery coastal towns of El Oro province to spend the night in...
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Two Gorgeous Farms & One Heavenly Market
In my last two days in my last country in this incredible year of travel with Heifer, (sob!) we visited Ambato, a market town south of Cotopaxi, about 2 hours from Quito, Ecuador. After the bone-dry...
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The Improbable Campesino
Shad Qudsi didn’t exactly set out on a career path to start an organic farm in rural Guatemala. He grew up in the farmlands of New Jersey (yeah, they do exist) and got a big scholarship to Johns...
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Cameroon, the Remix.
Cameroon was easily one of the most fascinating, diverse, disturbing and memorable countries I visited in 2012 with Heifer International…and that’s really saying something. My visit started with a...
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Remembering Romania…
A short 13 months ago, I was in Romania — a fact that was brought powerfully back to me when I opened my July National Geographic and saw a story titled “Hay. Beautiful.” about the incredibly...
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Holler back, Appalachia & The Delta.
Last July I spent five rainy days in Appalachia, in the far west of North Carolina near Boone – and another two days in the Arkansas Delta in the town of Hughes, visiting new projects Heifer...
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A look back at Cambodia.
The first time I was in Cambodia, in 2005, I disliked it intensely. It was the end of the dry season and the land was parched and brown, as if nothing had ever lived there. My friend Martha and I...
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A Prayer for Nepal.
Three years ago, almost to the day, I was in Nepal. I had traveled there from China, where I’d been visiting Heifer projects, and was supposed to have stopped in Tibet but sadly, I couldn’t get a visa...
View ArticleDown on the farm sure looks like Up to me.
Doreen Jankowski didn’t start out to be a local food impresario. 18 years ago, she and her husband Pete moved from Massachusetts to Florida, then back up to her granddaddy’s land in Appalachia (making...
View ArticleBikers for Broccoli.
I’m not much of a biker chick (I proudly ride a scooter, dude) and precious few people confuse me with an evangelical Christian, but I have to tell you, I was about ready to jump on a Harley and get a...
View ArticleA short rant about food.
Something’s wrong with the way we eat in this country. Or maybe it’s just what we eat in this country. Because we’re packing away a whole lot of this: And not nearly enough of this: The food we eat in...
View ArticleDespair & hope in the Delta.
Traveling from Appalachia to the Arkansas Delta was a shock to me. I thought I was prepared to see poverty – heck, I’ve been seeing poverty this whole year of travel with Heifer – but there was...
View ArticleA song of reconciliation.
It’s difficult for an outsider to fathom the profound repercussions of the genocide in Cambodia, or how pervasively it has affected that country. Even Keo Keang, Heifer Cambodia’s adorable country...
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