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LOOK: LMH teams up with ROC Fund and Stanford's Bill Lane Center for the American West for a multimedia venture telling the stories of California's rural communities

LISTEN: Good Food on KCRW, Los Angeles: interview with Evan Kleiman

LOOK: LMH is chosen as an Alicia Patterson Foundation journalism fellow, for work on the project "The Uncertain Future of American Agriculture"

LISTEN: Edible Radio, in conversation with Georgia rancher Will Harris

LOOK: Article on ag, water and community in California's Central Valley, in the latest McSweeney's (see a PDF here)

LOOK: Turkeys, Teenagers, and a Thanksgiving Tradition in the Making: a slideshow at The Atlantic Monthly

READ & WATCH: Roundup of the panel discussion "The Changing Role of American Farmers," with Lisa M. Hamilton, Verlyn Klinkenborg, Fred Kirschenmann, and Mary-Howell Martens; video by "King Corn" filmmaker Curt Ellis

LOOK: New photo essay on the landscape of water in California's Central Valley

READ: Turkey on the Combine: The disaster afoot in the Corn Belt at Chews Wise

READ: Review of Wendell Berry's latest, at the San Francisco Chronicle

READ: Op-ed about the dairy farm crisis at the Christian Science Monitor

LISTEN: Electric Politics: Interview with George Kenney

LISTEN: Sierra Club Radio: Interview with Orli Cortel

READ: "Let Them Eat Meat" at Audubon Magazine

READ: "Dear Mr. President and Secretary Vilsack..." at Civil Eats

READ: "In Food as in Finance: Diversify" at Alternet

READ: Review of "Deeply Rooted" in the San Francisco Chronicle

READ: "Let's Grow a New Crop of Farmers" at Prairie Writers Circle

READ: "In Praise of Rental Cars and the Slow Motion of Farmers" at Powells