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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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Homemade Living: Home Dairy Review
May 18, 2012 04:05 -
One Farmers Perspective on the Raw Milk Debate (video)
May 17, 2012 04:05 -
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
Posts Tagged ‘Local Food Economy’
Carlo Petrini: The Earth Is Not An Infinite Resource, part 2 (video)
Agriculture has a system of built-in limitations. But, we have figured out how to bypass many of those limits, and so, pay a terrible cost.
Where’s Food Alliance? Scavenger Hunt
April 09, 2010 Do you remember scavenger hunts? It’s a popular party activity where participants get a list of tasks or items that need to be done or collected and a winner is determined after all is completed. Food Alliance, a nonprofit organization that provides third-party certification to address safe and fair working conditions, humane [...]
Carlo Petrini: A Night At The Opera, part 1 (video)
Carlo Petrini, founder of Slow Food International shares his views about food, politics, and American culture on the road to a sustainable food nation. Part one explores the meaning of gastronomy, the current impact of food production upon the environment, and the pressing need for fundamental change. From Fast Food Nation to Slow Food Nation, [...]
To Eat Local, We Must Help Save Local Farmland
March 30, 2010 This has been a hot topic in my community (Portland, OR) lately, and I see it is being discussed in Sacramento too. If you want to eat locally, it’s important to support local farmers and to plan (smartly) for the future: save farmland for farming and not necessarily to be developed. And [...]
TED Talks Food: Broadcasting Voices and Ideas to the Public
March 26, 2010 Civil Eats recently wrote up an excellent list of food-related TED Talks given over the years – neatly compiled, summarized, and embedded for easy access and view-ability. Included are: Jamie Oliver, Mark Bittman, Ann Cooper, Dan Barber, Carolyn Steel, and Michael Pollan. A big note of thanks to @StaceySlate for taking the [...]
The Town that Food Saved: At Last, A Thoughtful Look at Local Food Systems
March 21, 2010 Building a local food economy has been a focus of several CUpS interviews, and examples shown through stories of artisans, farmers, and businesses doing just that. It was heartening to read Barry Estabrook‘s review of a recently published book by farmer Ben Hewitt, The Town that Food Saved: How One Community Found [...]
Raised On Grass: Pastured Fed Animals (video)
New to the life of farming, a middle-aged couple make a career change to becoming sustainable farmers. First mentoring under Joel Salatin, they now raise pasture fed cows, pigs, chickens, ducks, lambs, and sheep. I started to really think about the food the animals I ate were fed, after I saw “King Corn” and talked [...]
Meet a Farmer: Joya Parsons, Chicken Farmer
March 07, 2010 Exposed to her parents interest in horticulture as a young child, Joya Parsons grew to embrace her green thumb. “By the time I reached my early twenties, I was bitten by the horticulture bug.” Her interest in growing things was played out on the land her parents went on to buy in [...]