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In this issue we straddle the divide between small eco farmers and big agri-business. We ask, Who’s going to grow the food if so many of us are buying local, healthy veggies and fruits?

• Countrify the city, modernize the rural: An interview with J.B. MacKinnon
  Will Braun
• Corporatization of your digestive tract
• Where the buffalo roam (and the country radio blares): Rural America in urban culture
  Laurel Mathewson
• Farming a divine calling? ... think again
  Nicholas Klassen
• Interviews with conventional farms
• Groceries/Dirt
  Rachel Penner de Waal and Marla Kiley
• Sugar-coated ritual
  Geez Editors
• The last breakfast art
  Ron English
• The unbefitting prayer
  Carrie S. Martin
• This is my body: An expose on the communion wafer industry
• City slickers and clodhoppers
  Barbara Kingsolver
• NASCAR brand peppers
  Photography by Carl Hiebert
• Farming and feminism
  Jennifer deGroot
• Religion and the US Farm Bill
  Robert D. Francis
• The growth of fuel (biofuels)
  Jenni Berkel
• Farming is for losers
  Dan Wiens
• Sin, salvation and food: A look at the Christian diet industry
  Aiden Enns