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“Homegrown”: New documentary on Pasadena urban microfarm
Just got an email from the director of "Homegrown," what looks like a cool new documentary. It's about the Dervaes family, who run a microscopic organic farm in urban Pasadena, California. They live on one-fifth of an acre, and their garden takes up less
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For land’s sake: Farmland preservation in Ohio
My evenings and weekends lately — well, the past few months — have largely been taken up by the annual rounds of food preservation as I dry, freeze, can, pickle, and otherwise put up as much produce from this year
Videos posted for Slow Food Nation’s Food for Thought series
Good news for all you folks who couldn't make it to Slow Food Nation on Labor Day weekend, or who, like me, did attend but didn't manage to get tickets to all the events you wanted: Slow Food has posted full, high-quality
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More kudos to Slow Food Nation: Bioplastic utensils with improved labeling
In a post about bioplastics a few months ago, I lamented the failure of some bioplastic manufacturers to label their products as biodegradable
Report from TASTE3: Peter Reinhart on life and death in breadmaking
At the TASTE3 conference in Napa, instructor and author Peter Reinhart told a fascinating life-and-death tale about breadmaking.
A fair look at agriculture
Different folks have different ways of knowing when the summer is drawing to a close here in Ohio. Some swear by the increased volume of the crickets' chorus, others don't believe that summer is officially over until first
The youth these days
A highlight of my summer was the occasional e-mail I received from a friend in New Hampshire who has returned to our small town to start her own farm. Her parents, my family's closest friends, are organic farmers, so it's
So good, it’s not legal: A visit to Polyface Farm
By Johanna Kolodny I didn’t find out until the end of Polyface Farm’s Field Day last month that this gathering -- set in the Blue Ridge Mountain town of Swoope (pronounced Swope), Virginia -- was illegal. Polyface owner
Snapshot from Slow Food Nation: Native American plants in the Victory Garden
I had intended to do some "man in the garden" interviews while I hung around the Victory Garden watching the crowds come through. But my first set of victims were so interesting I talked to them for the entire half hour
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Slow Food Nation: Let the delicious revolution begin!
Slow Food Nation, the three-day festival that's been hyped as the "Woodstock of the food movement" and the "first
Report from Taste3: “Culanthropy” in New Orleans with the Culinary Corps
In mid-July, I had the pleasure of attending this year's TASTE3 conference in Napa, California. The conference, which is presented by the Robert Mondavi Winery, is a meeting of minds on the topics of food, wine, and art. Over the span of two days, a stream of chefs, artists,
Sowing the seeds of social change: Slow Food Nation’s Victory Garden
Last Saturday I attended the launch of the Slow Food Nation Victory Garden at the foot of San Francisco's City
Alice Waters in conversation with SF Mayor Gavin Newsom
Mayors of major American cities are usually the ones answering questions in interviews. So when the mayor is the one doing the interviewing, the subject must be someone special. That was the case on Monday night, when San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newson sat down with chef, food activist, and Slow Food International
Local food promoted as economic development tool
It's one of the ironies of our food system that here in Kansas, one of the largest agriculture states in the union, we don't have a whole lot of local food. It doesn't have to be that way. What's more, a turnaround in that situation is a good economic development plan. That was the message that two sustainable
Local meat gets star treatment at Kansas farmers market
Kansas may be the beef capital (PDF) of the United States, but people here aren't necessarily eating beef from the neighborhood. To introduce
