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Glenn Roberts
Farmer and Owner of Anson Mills
In 1998 Glenn Roberts, a Charleston-based historic restoration consultant and thirty-year veteran of restaurant and hotel concept design, took his career in an entirely new direction. He founded a company, Anson Mills, to grow, harvest and mill near-extinct varieties of heirloom corn, rice, and wheat organically, and re-create ingredients that were in the Southern larder before the Civil War. Anson Mills now works with 30 organic growers in six states to grow a variety of native heirloom grains.
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The ethical responsibility to grow and preserve and sustain land-raised systems will survive, and local, land-raised cuisines will return and thrive.
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Glenn Miller’s “quixotic” approach to farming could help save Yankee as well as Southern food culture.
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As our disconnection from food grows more dissatisfying, the slow food movement is gaining steam.
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The Anson Mills farmer is “leery” of modified foods, but “it’s not going to go away.”
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If we don’t resist the “monoculture” of American cuisine, we’ll lose buckwheat crepes, pickles, and po’boys as we know them.
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The president treats sustainability and organic food issues as more than a talking point.
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How Glenn Roberts became an organic farmer, with Mom and several millennia of food wisdom as his guides.
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If you’re talking about small farming for a local community, “land-raised plants are far superior, period.” On a global scale, it’s a trickier call.
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A conversation with the farmer and owner of Anson Mills.