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News & Observer, NC Building a sustainable local food system, that's development." Ten years ago, to even contemplate growing produce, they needed animals to roam free, eat grass and weeds, trample shrubs and trees that needed clearing and poop to pump up the nutrition in ...

She noted that Chicago Gourmet will feature the highest quality wines and spirits along with some of the city, state and region's best chefs, cookbook authors and sommeliers -- as well as many national and local food and culinary experts. ...

Even so, recent changes to America's food buying habits -- the rise of the local-food movement, increased awareness about foods' carbon footprint (the amount of greenhouse gasses released when producing and transporting goods) -- may leave you ...

When I talk about local food, I mean food that has been grown or raised within an easy drive from my home. If I can get there in under 2 hours, I'm happy to call it local. That agrees pretty closely with the definition of a “locavore,” someone who eats ...

 United States In Columbia, SC, university students pulled spare peaches from orchards and donated them to a local food bank. Supporters of this movement hold two basic principles. One, it's a shame to let fruit go to waste. And two, neighborhood fruit tastes best ...

A local food movement has been growing steadily for a few years now. With farmers' markets sales soaring above the $1 billion dollar mark it's obvious that more people are turning to their local farms and locally produced food as a viable alternative ...

 DC Created in 1954, the program's aim was to help farmers get rid of surplus crops without sinking local food markets. Elliot said that, in the decades since, the design might have changed, but the intent has not. “We no longer have the government buying ...

 TN One of the reasons I became interested is to highlight the importance of a local food network,'' Jacobson said. "If we can decentralize it and the importance of locally grown food is another area we'd like to bring attention to. ...

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local food production we are creating a secure and sustainable food system. Using organic practices we strive to grow the best tasting most nutritious vegetables. Myfarm combines the best of backyard farming with community supported agriculture. ...

By Jim Freeman Buying and Eating Local Food will •    improve your health •    delight your taste buds •    stretch your food budget •    increase income in your community •    preserve farmland; and •    make you new friends Growing and eating local food is important work.

By Jim Freeman The Bentryn’s story illustrates a lot about local food that is so valuable about local food and our communities and highlights two of the highest hurdles to success in the effort to make growing and eating local food mainstream: farmland preservation and farmer succession.

By Jim Freeman Many farmers and ranchers are pretty good marketers in their own right but probably the majority are not. Most good folks attracted to farming do not focus on marketing and the consumer experience even though the quality of what they produce is usually higher with a superior nutritional c...

By Sue Edwards Port Orchard Farmers Market To Open April 25th With spring right around the corner, it’s not too early for customers and vendors to start thinking about farmers markets. Kitsap County’s oldest farmers market, with 31 years under its belt, is the Port Orchard Farmers Market and it’s annou...

By Marilyn Holt Two bills that are against locally grown food have been prepared by big ag and are now in the hopper for this session of Congress. However, Agriculture Schrome://cooliris/skin/new/mouseover.pngec. Vilsack announcing that Kathleen Merrigan, the person who drafted Organic Foods Produ...

By Jim Freeman The market for local food is growing. The number of farmers markets in Illinois grew from 97 in 1999 to 270 in 2008. The number of community-supported agriculture organizations, which allow consumers to subscribe to a variety of Illinois-grown food products throughout the season, grew f...

By Jim Freeman Growing and eating local food is good for your health. Supporting local farmers to take care of the land is good for the environment. We have produced several articles on this blog making the case that buying and eating local food is good for the economy.

By Jim Freeman Growing and eating local food is a cultural activity, a chance for people to get together, take ‘er slow and get to know one another, savor the food. Jeff and Jocelyn Waite of the Harbour Pub do a great job every night in providing great food and a warm place to eat it with friends and family. They...

By Sue Edwards Next came his foray into Community Supported Agriculture (CSA).  He’s now entering his fourth season offering CSAs.  He started with six shares, grew to 12 and is now offering 20 shares this year.  Gregory says his mother originally helped him with some of the work but she’s now in her eighti...

By Bonnie Obremski On the Radio Just Food cooperative grocery store on Water Street: Eat Local Challenge on KYMN Friday, Feb 27 at 9 a.m. February 26th, 2009 We hope you will tune in to KYMN Radio (1080 AM) or streaming at http://kymnradio.net during Paula Granquist’s cool program “Art Zany: Radio for the Imagi...

By Jim Freeman finalists, the selection process may involve interacting with members of the Poulsbo Farmers Market and the community. Also, your application materials become property of the Poulsbo Farmers Market and will not be returned. Thank you for considering employment with the Poulsbo Farme...

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By Jim Freeman Good News For Kitsap Farms Consumers need to awaken to the reality of the condition of our food security and nutritional health. Social, business and government leaders need to wake up and recognize the critical importance of smaller community farms and farmers.

By rss@youtube.com (zinosumatra) A few TriMedx associates provide a brief instructive video on how to participate in a Scavenger Hunt to benefit a local food drive. Author: zinosumatra Keywords: TriMedx Scavenger Hunt Food Drive Volunteer Added: January 23, 2009

By KathyF The End of Food? That's the title of a new book by Paul Roberts that I haven't read, but here's an excerpt from an interview with him: (via)Why don???t you believe that local food systems are going to answer the global food demand?There???s a limit to how much land area we have to devote to loc...

By WorldChanging Team Today's Topic: Health, Food and Society Gin, Television, and Social Surplus Clay Shirky May 7 Locavore Valley: The Next Big Boom? Julia Levitt October 13 Local Food Plus: A Model for Food Citizenship in North America Kathryn Cooper December 2

By WorldChanging Team This local food concept got its start with the Toronto Food Policy Council, an organization that brings agriculture into municipal politics. Local Food Plus founder Lori Stahlbrand, formerly a consultant for the World Wildlife Fund, was originally inspired by a number of U.S. and Europe...

By menkoji@sacbee.com (M.S. Enkoji) Except the state's health, food and agriculture codes don't allow it. The stakes for sustaining small farmers and local-food fans are high, said Dan Best, general counsel of the California Federation of Certified Farmers Markets.

By Steve Ettlinger Alas, during this time poor Tess had to arrange for her small kids to go with the in-laws, find the various foods she wanted, call friends, and then by chance Googled me and learned only enough to get nervous (I'm not a food critic, but I have worked as a chef, lived in Paris six years, and have a...

Among the local food banks are the Toledo Area Ministries' Feed Your Neighbor program, where the Rev. Steve Anthony is executive director and the phone number is 419-242-7401. He is also the contact for the Lucas County Hunger Task Force.

By Lydia DePillis “It has taken decades of failed development policies to realize that we must put people first. We must listen to the voices of people most affected,” d’Escoto began, speaking of the “downright sinful” prevalence of poverty and hunger.

The state agriculture department has put out a new handbook for local food producers available both online and in hard copy. Teresa Cuperus, an Economic Development Consultant with DATCP, says the manual is for those wishing to move products from field to consumer. It covers selling dire...

By wardsville Pete Johnson, owner of Pete’s Greens, is working with 30 local farmers to market their goods in an evolving community supported agriculture program. He helped start the Center for an Agricultural Economy, a nonprofit operation that is planning an industrial park for agricultural busi...

By Sandor Ellix Katz Maria and her friends and I set ourselves up on the floor of the Terra Madre marketplace giving away tastes of a variety of delicious kraut-chis they had brought with them from Brussels. As is always the case, sharing food is the easiest way to meet people. We talked fermentation with people f...

Running concurrently with the mother of all food expos, the Salone del Gusto, the third edition of the biennial international meeting of the Terra Madre Network, brought together food producers, cooks, educators and students to further efforts toward increasing small-scale, tradi...

By Site Administrator Whether you want to purchase your food from a local farm, browse a farmer’s market, or find a place to buy real milk, these search engines will help you get what you are seeking. FarmersMarket. Find farmer’s markets all across the country with this search site.USDA Agricultural Marketing Se...

By sarah Do people look for different things from their food in different parts of the world? Public relations and market research firm Ketchum wanted to find out, so it surveyed consumers in the United States, the United Kingdom, Argentina, Germany and China in the hope of learning where we are a...

Addressing a high-level event marking World Food Day on Oct. 16, Mr. Clinton also saluted President Bush — “one thing he got right” — for pushing to change U.S. food aid policy. He scolded the bipartisan coalition in Congress that killed the idea of making some aid donations in cash rather than i...

By Green Underbelly As demands for more local food increase, there will always be room for more urban farmers and their products, but Halweil believes that CSAs and farmers markets provide only part of the pyramid of a healthy local food system that can sustain itself. Jack Kloppenburg, a sociologist at the U...

By Josie Garthwaite Chef Karen Jurgensen learned the tools of her trade in forward-thinking restaurants and catering kitchens in the 1980s. She now advocates for local food in restaurants and teaches folks how to craft seasonal menus. Read more about sustainable food and find a tasty recipe for farro with cu...

By Isabel Cowles According to a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, "Mixed-race or white high-poverty areas and all African American areas (regardless of income) were less likely than predominantly white higher-income communities to have access to foods that enable individual...

It's no wonder that eating local, organic food is becoming increasingly popular. Eating local organic food is not only good for the environment (less fuel is used to transport the food), and for the local economy, but hopefully you'll have enough information about what you buy to know if i...

By deepfnord I have been reading about the Slow Food Movement today. Slow food is best summed up in this little nutshell from Slow Food International: Slow Food USA, the American subsidiary of the slow food movement, continues along the same lines.

By Anna Lappé Support All Farmers: While the nation's largest farms get billions in Farm Bill subsidies, most farmers are left out completely. Currently, only four in ten farmers and ranchers get even a penny in subsidies. Virtually no fruit and vegetable farmers receive support. African-American, H...

By Chuck Sudo Which Hat Do I Wear?: It may be cold, but a bike ride along the Old Green Bay trail to Winnetka's Restaurant Michael is still worth the trip this weekend. Chef Michael Lachowicz is offering a $39, three-course Easter brunch, including a solid dark chocolate bunny for all guests. The menu, unf...

As The Washington Post reports, the USDA now prefers to call hunger "Very Low Food Security." That's the term the agency uses in its annual report on hunger In America, which for some reason was delayed this year until after the election.