…in their best form [food] hubs are more than economic catalysts and efficient truck routes…As much as they pioneer the replacement of lost distribution infrastructure, food hubs are civic leaders, entities that operate educational farms, address food deserts, attend to the socio-economic barriers to going organic, promote philanthropic aims, and provide job training. It’s this [...]
New Orleans hopes to gain new jobs as well as healthy, fresh food from a new Urban Farming and Food Center. The Recirculating Farms Coalition and New Orleans Food and Farm Network announced yesterday that they have received major grants for this innovative project, which will join innovative water-based recirculating farming with traditional soil-based growing. [...]
When it comes to food, I’m a big fan of the visual. As I cook, I’m thinking about not only how a recipe will taste, but also how it will look and what colors it will contain. I’m a sucker for sites that emphasize beautiful photographs (Gojee, for example). But after awhile, all of those [...]
High-end cooking aims for sophistication, so children with an interest in it will always seem older than they are. Nothing ages you like having a palate. via Child foodies: born with a silver spoon | The Guardian. We’ve been hearing more about food activists who happen to be children (think of the blogs about school [...]
“What people in the (local food) movement would like to see is the food coming fresh from a farm every day, every meal, as just a part of daily life. And there are a lot of conveniences that the industrial food chain has provided at a cost that makes it hard (to compete),” Akins says. [...]
In some ways, organic is a victim of its own success,” says Philip H. Howard, an assistant professor at Michigan State University, who has documented the remarkable consolidation of the organic industry. [...] “Big corporations see the trends and the opportunity to make money and profit.” The New York Times has an in-depth article examining [...]
Back in April, I wrote an article on Real Time Farms, a crowd-sourced online food directory for the U.S. and Canada that aims to “collectively document the whole food system.” In essence, Real Time Farms connects “eaters” with “producers” (farmers, artisans, restaurants). Last week, Real Time Farms released Fix Antibiotics, which allows users to find [...]
Food delivery services are becoming more and more popular, and the Internet and smartphones make them easy to use. In the San Francisco area, Munchery offers gourmet dishes from professional chefs for around the same price you’d find them in restaurants. You can order from their website or their iPhone app, and they offer a [...]
I mentioned in a previous post that I sat in on a SXSW panel titled, “Agvocacy 2.0: Adding a Human Voice to the Farm.” The panel included the founders of AgChat, and its basis was the following question: how do you bridge the communication gap between the 2% of the population who are farmers and the [...]
One of the most difficult things about eating in the United States is that our food system is so industrialized. There is virtually no way to know how the produce you buy at the grocery store was grown, and even if you’re buying an organic product, you don’t always know if it was grown locally. [...]
