Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
-Human-made Crises ‘Outrunning Our Ability To Deal With Them,’ Scientists Warn
-City life is a honey trap from Frances’ beleaguered bees
-A New Way to Turn Plastic Into Fuel?
-Don’t despair — get out there and do something
-Conservation for a New Era
Dandelion leaves flown thousands of miles north from Mexico now grace the organic section of our best local grocery stores…I find myself smiling at the latest proof of the power of our greening greenbacks. I am as well amused and saddened by the irony that the leaf generously and effortlessly yielded every hour for most months of the year by soil and worms in our own backyards must be carried north in airplanes guzzling barrels of oil and spewing millions of pounds of greenhouse gases.
Crop To Cuisine spends time with James McWilliams – Author of a new highly provocative book, Just Food: Where Locavores Get it Wrong, And How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly. McWilliams shares his thoughts on on food dogma, global population, and sustainability.
-Japan’s recession brings growing interest in fruit and vegetables
-Thoughts on the legacy of Norman Borlaug
-The Ultimate in Eating Local: My Adventures in Urban Foraging
-The Big Question: Should landowners be forced to give up space for allotments?
-Gardens launch own organic meat
-Feeding the future: Saving agricultural biodiversity
-Davenport man: Good time to plant food in public spaces
-USDA to unveil “Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food” initiative
-Feeding the world: which countries are most at risk?
I am going to make an argument I don’t see much. Reading the pros and cons on this subject is a bit like watching a pea roll around on a plate. My goal is to stick a fork in that pea and focus on something very fundamental. The point I will make is that one can say with high confidence bordering on certainty that only a predominantly local food system will ever be sustainable.
-Protesters March on Washington
-U.S. consumers cut debt by record $21.6 billion in July
-How the World’s Biggest Corporations, From Starbucks to Wal-Mart to Barnes & Noble, Claim to Be ‘Local’
-Generation Why
-Greenpunk
-Colorado: Preparing For Winter
-Norman Borlaug dies at 95; revolutionized grain agriculture and won Nobel Peace Prize
-Reflections on the Life of Norman Borlaug
-Nobel Prize winner, science pioneer, famine fighter Norman Borlaug, R.I.P.
-Norman Borlaug on the Food Crisis
-The Global Food Crisis: The End of Plenty
-Norman Borlaug Dead
Our show explores the recent debate over Organic V. Conventional foods when it comes to nutritional benefits.
Nelson Urban Acres is bringing fresh produce closer to home. They are a multi-plot urban farm in Nelson, British Columbia that launched into operation in 2009 based on the SPIN farming model. Co-founders Paul Hoepfner-Homme and Christoph Martens are working backyard gardens within the city using low-impact, organic farming techniques to grow fresh produce. This year they have been growing a variety of vegetables throughout the season for Nelson’s community markets.
Biting into a fresh-baked cookie from “Baked in Telluride” is a double treat — a yummy goody that also supports a local independent business. Owner Jerry Green has been going “green” for decades before it became fashionable. He shares the challenges of running an independent business in a tourist town while competing with bakeries thousands of miles away. While a town councilor, Jerry helped shape projects like affordable public housing and public transportation.
-The way we eat is trashing the fragile conditions that make human life possible
-Syria: Drought driving farmers to the cities
-Plans for White House farmers’ market move forward
-Big Food vs. Big Insurance
-Food for all
