Review: The Art of Fermentation
“Between fresh and rotten,” says Sandor Ellix Katz, “there is a creative space in which some of the most compelling of flavours arise.”
Food & Water
Local Economies on the Table
The EU is seeking a massive expansion of local governments compelled to open their procurement contracts to bids from EU firms, perhaps even the unconditional access achieved in the EU-Canada trade deal. No U.S. trade agreement to date has included such broad coverage of public procurement commitments.
Back-To-The-Future Agriculture: ‘Farming Like the Earth Matters’
It is easy to forget that once upon a time all agriculture was organic, grassfed, and regenerative.
MoGro: Innovations in Health and Well-being for New Mexico’s Food Deserts
The challenge of local and healthy food access is a complex puzzle being addressed across the country, from pre-boxed home delivery companies like Good Eggs, to mobile farmers’ markets and healthy produce vans.
Falling Fruit: Mapping Free Food Around the World
Today, Falling Fruit is the world’s largest foraging map, and the only one (to my knowledge) to be fully open source and open data.
Regenerative Agriculture: The Transition
In the face of peak oil and in order to curb carbon emissions, methods of farming that depend less on oil and natural gas, respectively to run machinery and to make synthetic fertilizers, must be sought.
Why GMO labeling in the U.S. needs to win only once
There were no doubt celebrations last week in the boardrooms of corporations that own patents to the world’s genetically engineered crops. Proposals to label foods containing these crops–commonly called GMOs for genetically modified organisms–were defeated soundly in Colorado and barely in Oregon.
Genetically Modified Escalation
How much money, effort and time must be wasted in the service of feeding today’s GMO escalation trap? By the time one side wins, society will have lost.
Pedalling the way to cleaner food
In keeping with the Dutch traditions of cycling and pragmatism, an off-the-grid, solar-powered, cargo e-trikes logistical delivery service has been born.
The Local Food Challenge wind up
Being a local relational eater in a consumerist world takes courage and commitment. A lot of it.
Slow Food Movement Growing Fast
What is good, clean and fair, and doesn’t cost the Earth? The answer is ‘Slow Food’, according to a growing number of people worldwide.
Finding McIntosh
Trees are one way of investing in the future, so lets make our great grandkids proud and leave them something positive to remember us by.
