Foodshed as New Democracy
As the local food movement, or…local food movements have taken root in the U.S. during recent years, advocates have discovered the need to express this evolving “locus focus” in new ways.
Food & Water
9 Urban Food Policies for Strong Local Food Systems
In a sharing economy, individuals look less to big chain stores to meet their food needs, and look more to each other.
The Surprising Healing Qualities … of Dirt
But it might be the soil where our food is grown, rather than the food itself, that offers us the real medicine.
Why Grassfed Is Best
“Eat less red meat” is the most frequent response I hear at conferences when a distraught member of the audience asks a presenter “What’s the one thing I can do for the planet?” What the presenter should have said is “Eat less feedlot meat.” A lot less, in fact.
How Big Food Creates an Illusion of Choice at the Supermarket
A new analysis shows that the top four or fewer food companies control a substantial majority of the sales of each item, and they often offer multiple brands in each type of grocery, giving consumers the false impression they are choosing among competing products.
Food Waste in Japan: How Eco-towns and Recycling Loops are Encouraging Self-Sufficiency
Japan’s Food Recycling Law was enacted in 2001 and revised in 2007 in order to promote the reutilization of food resources.
Veggies at the Liquor Store—and 5 Other Ways to Bring Food to Your Community
Out-of-the-box ideas for putting healthier food on our neighborhood plates—and make friends doing it.
Food & agriculture – Dec 3
•Food Sovereignty: A Breviary
•Transforming a conventional orchard into a fruit forest
•Journal withdraws controversial French Monsanto GM study
•Dust to Dust: a man-made Malthusian crisis
•Fighting hunger through sustainable farming
•Peak soil: act now or the very ground beneath us will die
•The National Soil Project
•Hungry Americans Less Productive as Budget Cuts Deepen: Economy
•Soil tasting session coming to Bristol: "Mmmm… I’m getting earthy notes and just a hint of grass"
•Now This Is Natural Food
Relational Eating: Vicki Robin at TEDxSeattle
Vicki Robins…about how her experiment in 10-mile eating not only changed how she ate, but also renewed her hope and rooted her in her community.
Student Turned Entrepreneur Re-Envisions Local Food
Meet Ben Greene. He’s a student turned entrepreneur from Raleigh, NC. His brain child, The Farmery, promises to bring a whole new way of life to urban locavores.
Innovation of the Week: Gardening “Boot Camps” for Troubled Youth
Rather than a jail term, a program from the Cook County Boot Camp in Illinois is finding ways to reach troubled youth and inmates through urban gardening.
Horticultural Traditions
Long before the rise of annual grain based industrial agriculture, and the dismantling of our food and cultural traditions, humans lived in ways much closer to the earth.
