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King Valley Medical Crisis Update - 25 Nov

Greg Naylor wrote 3 days ago: Bill Sykes speech to Parliament Greg’s Comment: This issue won’t go away.  King Valley r … more →

Tags: Doctor's Clinic, Ovens & King Community Heath, Personal, Cheshunt, john brumby, Whitfield

LEADER grants in Wiltshire

leadermoney wrote 1 week ago: www.northwessexleader.org.uk  Wiltshire has 3 areas with LEADER funding programmes. 1) The North Wes … more →

Tags: Funding, grants, leader, Leader money, North Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Plain Action, Rural Development Programme for England, Salisbury Plain, Sowing Seeds

Where Are The Small Town Candidates?

gabebullard wrote 3 weeks ago: The Secretary of State’s office is expecting thousands of Kentuckians to run in next year … more →

Tags: Local News, election, 2010

Why Does Healthcare Cost More In Some Places? Guess!

gabebullard wrote 1 month ago: The Rural Blog has a nice analysis of a Dartmouth healthcare study and reactions to it. It’s c … more →

Tags: Local News, election, Healthcare

A Poem for the Pro-White Ruralists, Agrarianists, Pastoralists, and Countryfolk

White Preservationist wrote 1 month ago: “The Triumph of the Machine” by D. H. Lawrence They talk of the triumph of the machine, … more →

Tags: White Survival, Ruralism vs. urbanity, technology, Agrarianism and pastoralism, anti-urban, White resistance, deracination, rural redoubt, Urban Degeneration

Should White Americans Re-Ruralize in order to Re-Vitalize?2 comments

White Preservationist wrote 1 month ago: More of my comments from over @ OD, with a few revisions: NN:”Nevertheless, the world is not going t … more →

Tags: Jewish problem, White ethnostate, White Survival, Ruralism vs. urbanity, agrarianism/pastoralism, anti-urban, Dixie, South Carolina, life of the soil

Introduction to the book I'LL TAKE MY STAND: THE SOUTH AND THE AGRARIAN TRADITION

SustainHumanity wrote 1 month ago: This is just a post mostly for my own future reference as well as for anyone else who might be inter … more →

Tags: Agriculture and agrarianism, centralization vs decentralization, Commodification of everything, Ecodemocracy, Econationalism, Futurology/prediction, Green-economics and green-collar jobs, Industrial food system (factory-farming, monocropping,, Land use and land development

North Wessex Downs AONB Forum 2009

leadermoney wrote 1 month ago: The North Wessex Downs AONB will hold its 2009 Forum tomorrow at Marlborough, Wiltshire. The event b … more →

Tags: aonb, News, Marlborough, North Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Wiltshire

E.coli Cripples US Hamburger Consumer & NLIS?11 comments

ruralaustralia wrote 1 month ago: Question: If someone can be crippled from eating bad hamburger meat (where most of Australia’s … more →

Tags: farming, Livestock, Livestock issues, LPA, Meat Industry, MLA, NLIS, rural australia, rural business

NZ Farmers Vote Against Industry Levies

ruralaustralia wrote 2 months ago: Does this sound familiar? It’s a aged ABC Rural report but may be relevant given the forthcomi … more →

Tags: election, farming, Livestock, Livestock issues, Meat Industry, MLA, rural australia, rural business

Receivership For Elders?!2 comments

ruralaustralia wrote 2 months ago: Gee, who would have thought it! “If the share issue does not happen, Elders will hit the wall … more →

Tags: farming, Livestock, Livestock issues, Meat Industry, rural australia

Farmland Appropriation Without Compensation!

ruralaustralia wrote 2 months ago: The Victorian government has stepped-over local councils to prevent landowners from developing their … more →

Tags: farming, rural australia, land tax Australian farmzone urban sprawl, Land tax development farmzone

LEADER money for Childrens Food Festival

leadermoney wrote 3 months ago: www.northwessexleader.org.uk   A grant of £11,000 from LEADER in the North Wessex Downs helped the C … more →

Tags: aonb, leader, grants, rural tourism, children's food festival, Food tourism, Festivals, Food, local food

News Coverage: "After Obama Campaign Visit, Delta Community Waits" Wash Post

Ezra Rosser wrote 3 months ago: Good article here on Obama’s promises to help the Delta region (the town has brown water even … more →

Tags: News Coverage of Poverty

LOCAL AGRICULTURE & SUSTAINABLE LIVING: In The News1 comment

SustainHumanity wrote 3 months ago: I’ve noticed a few of recent stories about locally/regionally-based agriculture and sustainabl … more →

Tags: Agriculture and agrarianism, Agriurbanism and agriburbia, Alternative Energy, centralization vs decentralization, Ecodemocracy, Econationalism, Ecopolitical/ecosocial movements, Enviroeconomics and ecopolitical issues, Environmental conservation and protection (conservation

Win tickets to the Berkshire Show

leadermoney wrote 3 months ago: A chance to win free tickets to the 2009 Royal Berkshire Show is featured on the West Berkshire Coun … more →

Tags: News, rural tourism, Something for Nothing, royal berkshire show, visit West Berkshire, north wessex downs aonb, Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, rural community

LEADER money officially launched1 comment

leadermoney wrote 3 months ago: www.northwessexleader.org.uk A new pot of money has arrived for countryside communities. We hosted a … more →

Tags: Funding, News, leader, Business, Leader money, Leader Fund, grants, Free Money, Richard Benyon MP

The Great Meat Rip-off Much Is More Than High Fuel Costs1 comment

ruralaustralia wrote 3 months ago: Agforce is right to advise consumers that they are headed for even higher costs if the fuel rebate i … more →

Tags: rural australia, Livestock, NLIS, high prices, Supermarkets, farming, Livestock issues, MLA, Meat Industry

Off to battle in support of rural schools

Alf Grumble wrote 4 months ago: Alf didn’t need to be kicked into action by angry constituents, when they learned that eight schools … more →

Tags: Education, Anne Tolley, Tararua District, Rural schools, The "Bush Country" Community Initiated Review


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