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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 -
Hacking the Food System In the Public Interest
November 30, 2011 10:11 -
Using Honeybees to Sniff Out Explosives
November 22, 2011 13:11 -
Farm To Fork and the Local Food Economy
November 16, 2011 19:11
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The Resilient Gardener, A Book Review
February 2, 2012 04:02 -
Announcing the Food Farmer Earth Collective
January 29, 2012 23:01 -
Alan Kapuler: Man of Science, Ideas, and Humanity part 4 (video)
January 24, 2012 04:01 -
Factory Farms: Animal Welfare, No Legal Protections 2 (video)
January 17, 2012 04:01 -
Factory Farms: Animal Welfare, No Legal Protections (video)
January 10, 2012 12:01 -
Farmer Don: Ode to a Small Family Farmer
January 9, 2012 04:01 -
Mother Nature’s Own Weapons of Mass Destruction
January 4, 2012 04:01
Posts Tagged ‘farmers’
Countdown to World Food Day
When you sit down to a meal, do you ever wonder where the ingredients come from?
Discovering Farmers Markets Wherever You Are
August 12, 2011 Two things came together and made a splash: data and love for good food! Last year the USDA launched a new mapping feature for their National Farmers Market Directory and access to raw data for “app designers and researchers to develop even more sophisticated or fine-tuned uses of the USDA Farmers Market [...]
The Unconventional Harvest: On the Road to Find the Future of Food, Farming, and Tomorrow
Why did I spend 5 months pedaling 4,300 miles across the country to rediscover our food system?
Nathan Winters Coming Soon to CUpS
During the summer of 2009, Nathan Winters spent 5 months pedaling across the country—4300 miles— to rediscover our food system. Along the way he interviewed farmers, activists, educators, food entrepreneurs, and others, to capture the rich flavors of those strongly connected to the land and to creating a sustainable future. As he applies the finishing [...]
Farm Together Now on Tour
February 17, 2011 There are many people behind the scenes who quietly go about growing/producing wholesome food and doing what they believe in everyday. Daniel Tucker, Amy Franceschini, and Anne Hamersky wanted to meet and talk to some of these people so spent the summer of 2009 traveling around the country to visit 20 different [...]
Dating Service for Farmers
February 14, 2011 A website I couldn’t help but share today, Valentine’s Day, whose sole purpose is to connect farmers and down-to-earth singles. It’s called FarmersOnly.com and was started by Jerry Miller in 2005. “FarmersOnly.com is the brainchild of Jerry Miller who has done marketing and public relations for thousands of farms and ranches across [...]
USDA Partially Deregulating Biotech Sugar Beets
February 04, 2011 Word just came that the ban on planting transgenic (GMO) sugar beets has been lifted. “US agricultural regulators on Friday said despite a court ban, they would allow commercial planting of genetically modified sugar beets under closely controlled conditions. The move marks the second-such boost by the United States for contested biotech [...]
Why Buy Local?
December 23, 2010 A group of middle school photography students from the University School of Nashville went to their local farmers market to snap pictures and ask a variety of questions of the farmers and vendors, such as buying local food over food being distributed from as far away as New Zealand. The result was [...]