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Designed to Fail: Why Regulatory Agencies Don’t Work
May 1, 2012 08:05 -
Documenting the Urban Farming Boom
April 30, 2012 07:04 -
Mo Rocca Learns to Cook from our Elders: My Grandmother’s Ravioli
February 19, 2012 08:02 -
Occupy Wall Street: the Conscience of the Nation
December 19, 2011 04:12 -
Willie Nelson’s Long Time Bassist—Dan “Bee” Spears Dies
December 14, 2011 09:12 -
Barn Raising and Community Support Celebrated at Pete’s Greens
December 7, 2011 09:12 -
Building Worker Power for a Just and Sustainable Food System
December 4, 2011 13:12
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A Small Scale Integrated Livestock Farmer
May 16, 2012 04:05 -
How to Make Homemade Butter from Farm Fresh Milk (video)
May 15, 2012 04:05 -
The Raw Milk Debate: Thorny Issues of Food Safety, Food Rights, and Public Health
May 14, 2012 04:05 -
The Pleasures of Eating Home Cooked Meals
May 11, 2012 04:05 -
A Mom Teaches Her Children the Importance of Food
May 10, 2012 04:05 -
in the Kitchen with Chef Lisa Schroeder: Mother’s Chicken Soup and More
May 9, 2012 04:05 -
Chicken and Biscuits Recipe
May 9, 2012 03:05
Posts By: Rebecca Gerendasy
Virginia Farm Bureau: Farmland Preservation Update
February 08, 2010 Virginia has recently spearheaded efforts to preserve working farmland. One key method to preserve farmland is to pass the farm to the next generation. In order to help current farmers through this transition, the State has created agriculture license plates to raise money for workshops – thus keeping the small farm active, [...]
Seed Catalogs: A Gardener’s Muse
February 08, 2010 If you are a food grower, it’s that time of year, again! Either you’re anxiously awaiting your seed order delivery, or you’re still pondering what will I grow this year. It doesn’t really matter if you only have a few pots on the patio or several beds in the backyard…planning and planting [...]
KQED’s Quest: the Great White Shark
[Update: Since posting this video, KQEDondemand's YouTube channel has made it for 'private' viewing only. I am hoping they will make it public, as it once was, for it is very informative. Sorry for any inconvenience.] February 01, 2010 KQED just posted a video on YouTube from their program Quest. This episode looks at the [...]
A look into the Edible future
February 01, 2010 Washington Post journalist Jane Black, from her recent trip to the yearly Edible Institute conference in Santa Fe, NM, writes about the food trends seen for the upcoming year. Five are mentioned, including one about CSA’s evolving: “I’ve always loved the idea of community-supported agriculture, but the structure has always been too [...]
USDA Grant to Create Healthy Urban Food Enterprise Development Center in Arkansas
January 31, 2010 Good news for the Wallace Center in Little Rock, AR. They have been awarded a $900,000 grant by the USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture to help run the Healthy Urban Food Enterprise Development Center (HUFED). “The purpose of the HUFED Center grant program is to establish and support a Healthy [...]
5,000 Megawatts and 8 Million Clams: FLUPSY is Cool
January 29, 2010 Ron Masters, a Conservation & Waterways Commissioner (Point Lookout, NY), gives a tour of a solar powered FLUPSY (Floating Upweller System). This clam nursery ‘boat’ helps the community environmentally and economically. “When the baby clams grow big enough to leave the nursery, they are deposited in local beds to support both recreational [...]
World’s Greenest Homes: Hong Kong Space Saver
January 29, 2010 With a population topping 7 million people within a 426 mile square area, living space in Hong Kong is at a premium. Architect Gary Chang, who grew up in a small apartment in Hong Kong, devised an ingenious model he calls ‘domestic transformer’. The living space he transformed was the 330 square [...]
South Australia alone on GM canola ban
January 28, 2010 Western Australia recently decided to allow genetically modified (GM) canola to be planted in their fields. A statewide ban on GM food and crops was adopted in 2003. This from GeneEthics.org: “State governments agreed with widespread warnings that GM canola would adversely impact markets and trade in Australian food products. They used [...]