Jayne Severson Boots crusted over with a layer of dried dirt, Matthew Wilson holds one of his Barred Rock hens as he walks through his garden. “Bitey developed more slowly than the others,” he says as he strokes her comb as if tending to his most fragile child. Bitey, so named because it often mistook […]
Worldwatch Institute The Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition (BCFN) in collaboration with the Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet project launched Eating Planet-Nutrition Today: A Challenge for Mankind and for the Planet at an event in New York City today. The book highlights the challenges facing today’s food and agricultural system, as well as the myriad […]
Cornucopia Institute On June 21 the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) formally announced it is seeking nominations for an opening on the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB), a 15-member panel set up by Congress responsible for approving all non-organic/synthetic materials in organics and recommending regulatory policy. Past appointments of agribusiness executives, to seats reserved for […]
Cleveland Clinic Cleveland Clinic kicked of its 2012 Community Farmers Market season on June 6 with the opening of the North Union Farmers Market on Crile Mall, near East 100th Street, between Euclid and Carnegie avenues. Cleveland Clinic began the Community Farmers Market program in July 2008 as an effort to offer healthy, local food […]
Pew Environment Group By Karen Steuer Bigger Isn’t Better is Part II of a three-part series. Click here to read Part I. Click here to read Part III. Before the 1960s, America’s supply of chicken, beef, pork and eggs was produced by a multitude of farms across the country. The vast majority of these operations […]
ThinkProgress by Adam James As concerns mount over the accessibility and quality of meals in cities, urban agriculture is becoming a practical solution to give communities more choice—all while helping address greenhouse gas emissions from centralized agriculture. With more than 80 percent of the American population living in metropolitan centers, urban farming has the ability […]
Food Freedom By Dr. Mercola In 2010, Americans spent just over 9 percent of their disposable income on food (5.5 percent at home and 3.9 percent eating out).1 This is a dramatically lower percentage spent just decades ago in the early 1960s, when more than 17 percent was spent on food, and even more of […]
Slow Food USA Slow Food USA announced that it is joining forces with Slow Food International to build a thousand gardens in Africa. A Thousand Gardens in Africa is part of a global initiative to bring the Slow Food network together to ensure African food security, as well as to raise awareness of native plant […]
Brad Masi According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the past decade is the first in more than fifty years that has actually witnessed a net gain in the number of reported farmers. Since 2002, almost 300,000 farms have begun operation, representing about 13 percent of all farms nation-wide. The majority of these new farms […]
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