TDA Archives - People's History in Texas https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/uncategorized/tda/ Tue, 25 Apr 2023 15:15:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.4 https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-logo-32x32.png TDA Archives - People's History in Texas https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/uncategorized/tda/ 32 32 Alfred L. Parks https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/alfred-l-parks/ Fri, 21 Apr 2023 08:01:08 +0000 https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/?page_id=2581 “We had a guy that came in from the Dallas area. He had no farming background, but he had married into a family that’s local here… “My family has land not far from Prairie View, and we want to get into watermelons.” He created a supply chain. What he had done was go out and develop some markets with Luby’s. […]

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]]> Farm Bill 1985: A Lost Opportunity https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/farm-bill-1985-lost-opportunity/ Wed, 24 Jun 2020 23:48:05 +0000 https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/?p=877 Rally to Save Family Farms Texas Populism Project Doug Zabel grew up on a farm in the Midwest and was a political consultant and campaign manager before he went to work with the Texas Department of Agriculture.  He became closely involved with the development of the National Farm Bill of 1985. “My dad had this little community bank that was […]

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]]> Texas Organic Label First in Nation https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/texas-organic-label-first-in-nation/ https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/texas-organic-label-first-in-nation/#respond Sat, 30 May 2020 21:09:43 +0000 https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/?p=799 First Texas official Organic Label Texas was first State to certify an Organic Label for produce. That’s right—TEXAS!  In 1987, the Texas Department of Agriculture established an official State label guaranteeing that the produce was organically grown. It is a little known fact.  It is so little known that it has almost been completely written out of the  history books.  […]

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]]> https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/texas-organic-label-first-in-nation/feed/ 0 PHIT New Project https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/phit-new-project/ https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/phit-new-project/#respond Mon, 20 Apr 2020 10:27:14 +0000 https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/?p=676 Hightower Campaign Poster   The Hightower Years Farms on Fire The Texas Camelot PHIT is beginning a new oral history project.  The project title is still a work in progress, but the subject matter is pretty solid.  We are collecting participant stories on the impact that the Texas Department of Agriculture made on state and national policies during the years […]

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