Sharing the Harvest
With the taste of success now in my mouth, I abandon all reservations about asking for what I need. We ask everyone we meet if they know where we can find wild apples to harvest.
Food & Water
Agroinnovations #107: Recipe for America
On this episode of the podcast we are joined by Jill Richardson. Jill is a journalist, author and blogger who writes for the blog La Vida Locavore and also for the news site alternet.org. In this interview we discuss Cuba as an example of a post-peak agricultural society, the propaganda of the GMO seed companies, the corporate push to approve genetically modified salmon, the Green Revolution in Mexico, and how to fix our broken food system.
Agriculture, green policy and social justice – Oct 24
– Paraguayan Mennonites hit back at criticism of environmental record
– Food Security as If Women Mattered: A Story from Kerala
– Venezuela: From Agribusiness to Agroecology?
– Britain is growing greener at the expense of the rest of the world
Reflections on the Transition
But self-sufficiency, I realize, is a misnomer. What I am aiming for is local sufficiency. While I am marginally better at providing for myself, my gradually accumulating “locafficiency” is very much dependent upon people I see day-by-day.
The state of sustainable food systems investing
More and more individuals, foundations, and other institutions are showing an interest in investing capital in food companies that address social and/or environmental issues, a phenomenon both mirrored and encouraged by a growing number of conferences, panels, workshops, and even entire organizations dedicated to the field. At first glance all this activity might seem like great news–but if we dig a little deeper, there are some hidden impacts that good food advocates would be wise to examine a little more closely.
Food, agriculture and health – Oct 20
– Wal-Mart’s Plan for Small Farmers Expands Private-Sector Climate Agenda
– UN Says Global Farm Methods ‘Recipe for Disaster’
– Big Food’s Blame Game
– Eating Less Meat Could Save 45,000 Lives a Year
Lunch lessons learned for the longterm: D.C. farm to school program brings local foods to local schools
The phrase “school lunch” may be more likely to bring to mind visions of artificial nacho cheese and processed foods than fresh vegetables. But in Washington D.C., D.C. Farm to School Network is trying to change that by connecting school cafeterias with local farms and educating students about gardening and cooking with fresh produce.
The politics of hunger
About a billion people or 1/6th of humanity goes to sleep hungry each day. Most assume it is because not enough food is there to go around. Though this may become true in future unless we have an urgent course correction, at the moment this abomination is the result of lack of access to food, not its absence.
Food & agriculture take two – Oct 20
-£669 ($1068 Canadian) worth of food grown on this patio, balcony and windowsill
-Sorry, New York Times: The Bee Die-Off Case is Not Closed
-Striking a blow for a softer, greener world
-NtP in Italy
-Wal-Mart To Boost Buying From Small And Local Farms
A Pumpkin In The Apple Tree
My sister Jenny went out to pick apples the other day and found a Cinderella pumpkin growing up in her Winesap tree… You can imagine how it happened. Turn your back on a pumpkin vine and it will run off down the road and join the army.
The places that food saves: Evaluating local food infrastructures
Will my food stay local in hard times? Will we feed our community? Or will the bind that farmers live in – the need to feed the more affluent – continue to constrict my community. This is something I simply do not know. I tend to think, however, that the degree to which the community can support and build a network of intertwined food systems, and intertwined people, will in some measure define this.
Sheep on the curragh
Sheep, pigs and cows do not belong to massive agribusiness factories here; they often belong to smallholders, and you will see them in the space of a backyard.
