Posts By: Rebecca Gerendasy
Growing Food in Kenya Amid Climate Change (video)
July 23, 2010 Growing food in a region facing climate change has many daily challenges for its residents. In parts of eastern Africa this is compounded by deforestation, which has led to water run-off and erosion. The soils health has greatly diminished which has led to crop failure for many. Through a program overseen by [...]
Lansing’s First Urban Farm
July 22, 2010 Urbandale – considered a food desert – on the east side of Lansing, MI. is creating and growing its first urban farm. The project was started by 2 MSU professors. With the help of residents and nearby community, it is taking shape and growing. Go to original post.
Tom Trantham-Twelve Aprils Grazing Program Coming Soon
July 2, 2010; Pelzer, South Carolina. In 1989, dairy farmer, Tom Trantham, was facing almost certain financial collapse on his conventional, 92 cow dairy farm operation. With the costs of animal feed skyrocketing, many farmers were turning to BST to increase milk production, a hormone purported at the time of being safe, and as the [...]
A Potato Remade for Industry Has Some Swedes Frowning
June 11, 2010 In Skara, Sweden, the genetically modified Amflora potato is being grown for its starch content, not food. But the debate and concern still continues for many in the region. Go to original post…
How to Barbecue Championship Ribs (Video)
A few years ago, I produced a couple of feature length DVDs on the subject of championship barbecue. This is a clip from the second DVD, Barbecue Secrets: The Master Guide to Extraordinary Barbecue Cookin, that goes into considerable depth on the whole process of how to cook low & slow style barbecue from three [...]
Pop-Up General Store in Oakland
May 27, 2010 At the end of last summer, Eccolo in Berkeley, CA, closed much to the sorrow of the owner/chefs, and to the clientele also. They cooked for flavor, using ingredients that were locally grown and raised. The results were thoroughly enjoyed by many. Fast forward to now: The two chefs – Chris Lee [...]
2010 National Farmers Market Directory
April 28, 2010 Farmer Markets have grown exponentially this past year – a 23% increase over the number in 2008. And more are opening in communities across the country and many more are in the planning stages as people want to source their food locally and also get to know their farmer and food producer. [...]
A Year of Inconvenience
April 27, 2010 Pam Mehnert, general manager of Outpost Natural Foods in the Milwaukee, WI, area, had an ‘Aha!’ moment and decided to challenge herself: stay out of the middle aisles of the grocery market, keep away from processed foods and over-packaged goods, and make from scratch all her meals and snacks. Her initial blog [...]
Cheese-a-topia, American Cheese Society 2010, Seattle 2010
April 23, 2010 I just learned of the upcoming American Cheese Society annual conference (Aug. 25-28), which will be held in Seattle this year. If you’re a cheese monger/head/enthusiast (who isn’t?!), I think this is something you’d at least like to dream about attending. Registration opens May 21st – so mark your calendars! On the [...]
Portland Mayor Names Test Neighborhoods for Food Scrap Composting Project
April 13, 2010 This is great to read! As a city, Portland is taking another step toward lowering it’s carbon footprint impact by offering a residential curbside pickup of food scraps to be composted. “Letters notifying participating households went out Friday. Starting the week of April 26, participants will receive a 2-gallon plastic bin for [...]


