The Gleaning Network: The Arable Spring
Gleaning Network UK is a new initiative whose aim is to salvage surplus produce from farms across the country.
Food & Water
Down the garden path
Under cover growing is definitely the way to go.
Don’t hold the anchovies
“Eat wild seafood,” begins Sharpless’s version. “Not too much of the big fish. Mostly local.”
Tristram Stuart: The global food waste scandal
Western countries throw out nearly half of their food, not because it’s inedible — but because it doesn’t look appealing. Tristram Stuart delves into the shocking data of wasted food, calling for a more responsible use of global resources.
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.
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.
