June 1975 GRICULTURE.FOO M Bar W Ranch Leslie Wildesen 19537 NE U4th St. Brush Prairie, Wash. 98606 We are the M Bar W Ranch, just northeast of Vancouver. We specialize in organic products for the organic gardener, red worms for increasing soil aeration (even in terrariums and other small indoor gardens or rooftop vegetable gardens) and nice rich compost in large or small quantities. We are also looking for people to grow worms for us. Brochures and price lists on request. Buying Clubs Ron Long 1722 N 46th Seattle, Wash. 98103 Ron Long and Heidi Bodding of Seattle's Metrocenter YMCA have written and published an excellent booklet on how to join up with neighbors to form a cooperative food buying club (or food conspiracy if you prefer). It doesn't seem to have a title (our copy doesn't have one, at least), but it does have some very good suggestions on organizing, ordering, bookkeeping; most everything a group would need to know to get started right. 22 pages, and they need a dollar if you have one. Almost half of U.S. households (47 percent, or approximately 3 3 million, had some kind of vegetable garden in 1974. The primary reason given for planting a vegetable garden is economic, the Gallup survey revealed. Of all new gardeners surveyed in I974,46 percent gave "helps budget/saves money" as the most important reason. sixteen percent gave "for fun/joy of it" as the most important reason. In third place was "better tasting food," given by only 7 percent as the most important reason. The Gallup survey showed that the proportion of young people under age 30, and those with a college education who had vegetable gardens increased by 13 percent betwe€n 197 I and 1974. Among white households there has been a 9 percent increase in the proportion with vegetable gardens, while virtually no change has occurred among non-white households. Participation by families with incomes under $4000 declined by 3 percentage points in the three-year period 1971-1974.There has been a 17 percent increase in the proportion of professional households with vegetable gardens. Nutrttion Action Center for Science in the Public Interest 1779 Church St. Washington, D.C.20036 Seems that Food Day was an idea whose time had come. We've heard directly and indirectly about numerous projects that got their initial push through the Food Day activities. The Center is going to keep people in touch via Nuftition Action newsletter at $10/yr. Published for Food Day, also by CSPI,.is Food for People, Not for Profit, Ballantine Books, $1.95. Recommended as a guide to the politics and economics of food distribution in America. A couple of years ago CSPI published Nutrition Scoreboard, your guide to better eating. $2.50. A very interesting analysis/scoring of foods we eat, along with introductory material on vitamins, minerals, additives, etc. City People\ Book of Raising Food Helga, William Olkowski Rodale Press 3 3 E Minoer Emmaus, Pa. 18049 $4.95. With usual Rodale quality, a good holding hand book for city dwellers. Options, newsletter of the Corvallis Universalist Food and Famine Study Group 302 Conifer NE Corvallis, Or. 97 33O Group working locally to encourage lower energy use lifestyles, public awareness of world food production & problems. page 3 Methods of Agricultaral Land Preseroation, William H. Gray Cooperative Extension Service Washington State University Pullman, Wa.99163 Feb. 1975 (EM 3906). Single copies free. Review of existing and proposed alternatives with evaluation of pros and cons. (Suggested by Mark Musick) The People's Land, ed, Peter Barnes Rodale Press Organic Park Emmaus, Pa. 18049 $6.95. Establishing that more than 60% of the private land in this country is owned by only 5% of the population, The People's Land presents historical, contemporary and regional perspectives on land holding patterns in the U.S. and explores in some depth some of the possible alternative institutions and policies that can create a more equitable system of land tenure: co-ops, farmworkers' unions, anti-corporate farm laws, land trusts, and many others. (Suggested by Mark Musick) 1974 Handbook of Agricuhural Cbarts Agriculture Handbook No. 477 U.S. Dept. of Agriculture Washington, D.C.2O250 Almost a textbook on charts in general. 160 pages of them, with attached in detail data on things like: quantities of pesticides used by farmers; sources of U.S. food; net out migration from farms; market shares for hamburger, lean ground beef and soy ground beef. You can also purchase photo slides of the charts for about 30d each. Continued on page 4 U.S. EXPORIS OT LIYISIOCI( PRODUCTS iBlt. 1.5 li]iJl orxrn N uvE ANlrArs Ei':::--:I:l VlntrtV nSAt V" nro nex Fllll xrors e sKtNs ffi rlno e TArtow 1.2 0.9 0.6 0.3 o 197 4 N€G. FAS 246 7il (91 1968 1970 1972
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