In-depth, offbeat, or thought-provoking features about aspects of SOLE food, from eating locally to farms marketing to methods of food preservation.
archive for November, 2007
Digest - Blogs: Let’s scrap the Farm Bill, winter marketing, the golden age of apples
Posts by bloggers at both personal and nonprofit sites that you won’t want to miss.
Digest - Commentary: Leafy greens agreement not good for small farmers
Editorials and op-eds about sustainable agriculture (or its opposite) from newspapers and websites big and small.
Digest - Rural: Time looks at how we got here, water wars, Kansas has a plan
A rural-centric news round-up contributed by our friends at the Center for Rural Affairs.
Baumans Cedar Valley Farms: It takes a family to produce pastured eggs
John and Yvonne Bauman and their six children raise pastured chickens for eggs and meat plus other livestock on a small farm in Garnet, Kansas.
Missoula, MT is for the birds — and against them, too
Meloukhia (along with my BoingBoing-reading husband) alerts us to a fantastic multimedia story at New West about how a proposal to legalize backyard chickens in Missoula, Montana, is dividing neighbors. It’s the battle of the Locavores/Ethicureans vs. Prissy NIMBYists:
In case you’re not familiar with it, New West is a damn fine online journalism site dedicated […]
Eat your Devil’s Food and be quiet
We’re in the weeds up to our bleary eyeballs with deadlines and other pesky interruptions to our regular blogging obsessiveness. In the meantime, please nosh on this cooking-themed third installment from Barry Foy’s Devil’s Food Dictionary, that "pioneering culinary reference work consisting entirely of lies":
celebrity chef An accomplished chef who, because his food’s prices have […]
“Locavore” chosen as word of the year
The New Oxford American Dictionary has selected “locavore” as the word that best reflects “the ethos of the year” and has “lasting potential as a word of cultural significance and use.” W00t!
Book review: “Super Natural Cooking” by Heidi Swanson
The mass media’s coverage of food is a cacophony of quick fixes ("Eat a handful of goji berries and wipe out the effects of those two fast-food burgers you ate for lunch!") and hype ("Do cranberries cure cancer? Stay tuned for a shocking new report").
Heidi Swanson — creator of the 101 Cookbooks website — […]
Digest - News: USDA loophole allows E. coli-positive beef to be sold, lots more news
Breaking news and developments, such as contaminated-food outbreaks, Farm Bill milestones, and how the farming community is faring around the world.
Digest - Commentary: Journalists protest NAIS secrecy, Farm Bill reformers split
Editorials and op-eds about sustainable agriculture (or its opposite) from newspapers and websites big and small.
Digest - Features: Food labeling follies, Madison reflects, “King Corn” hits Iowa
In-depth, offbeat, or thought-provoking features about aspects of SOLE food, from eating locally to farms marketing to methods of food preservation.
Digest - Blogs: Pollanism backlash, hog farming realities, Reason is reasonable for once
Posts by bloggers at both personal and nonprofit sites that you won’t want to miss.
A food-values pyramid for Ethicureans
On their website, Organic Valley tells newly conscious eaters that the USDA organic seal is just a starting point, with “emphasis on foundation. It’s only the beginning of where you might find yourself in the years to come as your organic lifestyle evolves.”
Subsidy brouhaha brewing over at Grist
I have much to say on the topic of subsidies, the favorite whipping boy of farm policy reform advocates far and wide (and my personal favorite topic to bring up at parties, only slightly ahead of slaughter. Yep, I’m quite popular!). But with several work deadlines looming, I’ll have to hold off until another day. […]
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