February 20, 2010 Denise O’Brien has begun a new series on the Blog for Iowa website about sustainable agriculture. O’Brien (co-founder of Women, Food & Agriculture Network) and her husband Larry Harris have been growing organic produce for over 30 years and sell through their Rolling Acres CSA. She will be discussing the different [...]
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An Iowa Farmer on the Meaning of Sustainability
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Raj Patel: The Value of Nothing-an Overview (video)
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Part 1: Raj Patel, food activist, scholar, and author of two important books: Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System and his new book (now on the New York Times Best Seller list), The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy shares his views about [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
Posted in CUpS Food News Wire Also tagged ban, canola, Environment, GE, genetically modified food, GM, gmo, GMOs, growing gmos, impact, transgenic Post a comment
Dairy Farmers Are There For Their Cows….24/7!
January 27, 2010 Telling it like it is: it’s Sunday, coffee in hand, but a worker isn’t able to show up. Calves need feeding, cows need tending, so a dairy goddess has to do what a dairy goddess has to do, 24/7!… Get going and tend those cows!
h/t @FarmerHaley
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Farmers, conservation groups join to preserve farmland near Portland’s suburbs
January 27, 2010 As the time for public comments draw to a close, a look at a local hazelnut orchard and tree farm in Clackamas County – one of the counties in the Portland metro area deciding where to place urban and rural Reserves for future populations and possible development. Peter McDonald is concerned farms [...]
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