By Terrah Baker Monoculture corn fields (farms) were part of my existence from the beginning. Field after field spanned the landscape of my Illinois home. In the small neighborhood I grew up in, they lined the backyards and became play places of discovery and imagination. I was taught to believe that farmers were the salt…

By Terrah Baker I needed an adventure last winter when I decided to attend the Ozark Tracker Society Coyote Mentoring workshop in the hills of the Ozark Mountains in the beginning of February. It wasn’t until my husband and I returned from the two-day workshop to our small apartment on the east side of Fayetteville…

By Terrah Baker When TFW was offered the opportunity to give away two tickets to One Night of Queen at the Walton Arts Center on March 15, I couldn’t do it without putting in my two cents. Simply because Queen — although lead singer Freddie Mercury was dead before I knew what rock n’ roll…

By Terrah Baker On Feb. 17, the largest rally to bring attention to the issue of climate change was held on the steps of our — your — Nation’s capitol, with more than 40,000 people, and thousands more in San Francisco and across the country. Oh … you hadn’t heard about it? Well neither have…

By Terrah Baker Congressman Steve Womack of the Third District of Arkansas was not happy with the group he saw before him on Jan. 31 in a meeting room in his office in Rogers. To him, they were radicals of the worst kind; spouting about climate change, a carbon tax and the economic, social and…

“The American Anti-Corruption Act has been researched, developed and proposed by professionals who happen to have a first-hand look at the corruption our political system is facing.” By Terrah Baker Ya’ know all those crazy conspiracy theorists, activists, environmentalists, conservatives and socialists who have been saying for years that politicians are working against us? They’ve…

By Terrah Baker At the end of the week when I bag my overflowing stacks of recycling to haul to Ozark Natural Foods recycling drop off, there’s one bag that’s always bigger than the rest — the dreaded plastics #3 through #7. They’re the reason I drop off in the first place, as Fayetteville hasn’t,…

By Terrah Baker I hear a lot about jobs in our economy. “There are no jobs. There are new jobs. These jobs are good. These jobs suck. We need more jobs!” Most recently, I attended an informative session held by the Applied Sustainability Center at the University of Arkansas on the possibilities for green, renewable…

By Terrah Baker When I first heard of the Arkansas Citizens First Congress I was taken aback with … relief. An organization that solves that age-old problem of bringing like-minded grassroots organizations together to actually make a difference? No way! But it is true. The ACFC takes the issues that matter to their grassroots-member organizations…