Here’s a tasty investment: Grants for Eastern Market, local-food industry will create jobs and bring business diversity to Detroit
Here’s why you should care: Better, locally grown food. Public health. Job creation. Cleaner, safer places to shop.
Food & Water
COMMUNITY RESILIENCE CHATS: “Rebuilding the Foodshed” with Philip Ackerman-Leist and Asher Miller
Want to start a community-owned café, solar array, or investment fund but don’t know where to start? Join our Community Resilience Webinars.
Food, Farms, and Fracking in California
In California, fracking has been taking place for decades with little public awareness.
Fish, Frogs, and People to Benefit from Biggest Dam-Removal Project in California History
Today marks a historic event for California rivers: the launch of the biggest dam removal project in state history.
Food & agriculture – June 24
-Order Your Chicken Rare: Nearly Lost Breeds Make a Comeback
-Qatar’s Renewable Energy Solution to Middle East Food Security Problem
-New York’s ‘Food Recycling’ Program Could Be The Future Of Waste And Energy
-15 Websites Saving the Environment by Changing the Food System
-Local Foodshed Mapping Tool for New York State
-50,000 Bumblebees die after neonicotinoid pesticide use in Oregon
Alternative Tomorrow’s World: People-Powered Flour Mill
If you stick your head out of the door and sniff the zeitgeist, it definitely seems there is a resurgence of creative design for social change.
Seeds of the People: Growing Local Knowledge
It’s challenging enough to explain to a five year old child who has spent his or her whole life in the city that a carrot is a taproot and grows in the dirt.
The Farm Bill’s “Government Handouts”: Who Really Benefits?
If we are going to be truly resilient, then we must be compassionate about the suffering of those around us, and we must seek ways, both through policy and through our daily individual actions, that will help to rectify this suffering.
Land, apples, and political engagement in Scotland
The community growing movement in Scotland reveals a desire, and an opportunity, for a more profoundly democratic politics.
The Permablitz: Transforming Urban Homesteads in a Single Day
During a Permablitz, an army of volunteers, friends, and neighbors descend on a home and transform the yard (back, front, or both) into a food-growing wonderland.
Farm to Childcare program expands to 62 sites across Minnesota
Beginning today, childcare centers throughout Minnesota are set to serve healthy, locally grown foods as part of a Farm to Childcare initiative—an innovative program designed in partnership between the Minnesota-based Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) and childcare provider New Horizon Academy (NHA).
Food Waste Fighter: An Interview with Jonathan Bloom
…trimming our food waste is more important than composting our excess.
