HeyJaredMallory DeVries
Independent commentary on Iowa’s food system and the decisions shaping who benefits from it.
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What Else Are We Fueling in Ethanol Country? (opens the original)
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I was recently challenged to imagine what the literal landscape could look like in Iowa if we did things differently. What could we see out the car window? What could be growing here? Built here? What could our farms look like? Our waterways? Our small town main streets? What could occupy all this land if we didn’t need quite so much corn?It sounds like a simple exercise. Turns out, it’s surprisingly hard to imagine Iowa looking like anything other than Iowa. So I outsourced the assignment to so
The Hollowing of Rural Life (opens the original)
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It started as a pain in the neck.I was breastfeeding a newborn and caring for a toddler who had just been diagnosed with epilepsy. My body felt wrung out, hollowed. It had been asked to keep giving long past its reserves. I went to a chiropractor in a nearby small town.A few snaps in, a crack, then my neck.Wait.Don’t do the other side.Wait.I remember saying those words, or thinking them, or both.Suddenly my arms and legs flew into the air.Not flailing. Not panic. Just…floating.My limbs didn’t be
Could School Lunch Help Clean Up Iowa’s Water? (opens the original)
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My kids eat school lunch almost every day during the school year.They have strong opinions about the pizza. They love the popcorn chicken with a level of devotion usually reserved for household pets.People are sometimes surprised that I “let” them eat school lunch. I write about food, grow food, and spend an unreasonable amount of time thinking about where food comes from and how it gets onto the plate.That is exactly why I “let” them eat it. Food is energy, sure, but it is also culture. I want
The Save Our Bacon Act is mostly saving Big Pork (opens the original)
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