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Planting Beets (video)

Beets are easy to grow. There are just a few key things you need to know to ensure success

Growing Food

Nicolette Hahn Niman Champions Seismic Change of Our Industrial Food System (Video)

Nicolette Hahn Niman identifies 5 commonly held myths about our industrial food system.

Food Conversations

Potting Up Tomato Seedlings (video)

For healthy tomato plants started from seed, it’s a good idea to pot them up after two sets of true leaves are established.

Growing Food

Growing Cover Crop with a Cash Crop (video)

Dan Forgey, of Cronin Farms, describes his ongoing research with cover crops, this time looking at how they might be grown in sync with a cash crop of corn.

Growing Food

Food Sampling at Austin Farmers Market Gets Yes Vote

April 29, 2010 Going to the Farmers Market is always an uplifting adventure. Not only do I get to meet and talk to the farmers who grew the food, I get to taste what has just been harvested. And, for those artisans who create delectable treats for my palate – crafted mustards, cheese, and breads [...]

Food Conversations

Carlo Petrini: Good, Clean, and Fair part 6 (video)

Carlo Petrini, in this final installment, argues for economic respect, and fairness to the small farmers of the world. Economy and ecology, he reminds us, share the same roots.

CUpS: Talks

Carlo Petrini: Give Value To Food 5 (Video)

Is U.S. agricultural policy fundamentally flawed? Since the Nixon administration, when then Secretary of Agriculture, Earl Butz, led the drive to invigorate agriculture production by encouraging farmers to become bigger, and to maximize production even as commodity prices would likely fall over time; sales quantity, and the opening of foreign markets to U.S. farmers were [...]

CUpS: Talks

Growing a City Hall Garden (video)

In Portland, Oregon, a small gathering celebrates the one year anniversary of the food garden just outside city hall.

Food Stories, Small Bites