Boulder County is considering the creation of rules that would explicitly allow events on farms — including farm-to-table dinners, wedding receptions and other gatherings that showcase the food grown there — without any kind of additional permits or approvals if those events meet certain criteria. via Boulder Daily Camera.
In an earlier post, we looked at Stockbox Grocers as one possible solution to the food desert problem. Launched last year, the Seattle-based Stockbox is a miniature grocery store that offers fresh produce and basic groceries to communities without access to healthy food. The stores are based in reclaimed shipping containers that are placed into the parking lot of [...]
As demand for locally grown fruits and vegetables has increased, so too has the number of urban farmers markets sprouting up across the nation. The U.S. Department of Agriculture will announce Friday that the number of direct-sales markets has increased 9.6 percent in the past year, with California and New York leading the way. via The [...]
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 [...]
Epicurious has a Peak-Season Map on its website. It’s searchable by state and month, so you can see exactly what’s in season for your area. It also offers ingredient descriptions, recipes, shopping guides, and tips. I’ve bookmarked the page, and I think it’ll be a useful resource.
We are seeing a local food tsunami that is being enabled by technology…The electronic media technology was developed for globalization but is being co-opted to enable localization…We’re finding much more efficient ways to interface the customer and producer…By leveraging the sheer efficiency of the electronic interface we’re seeing the beginning of the future. via Tom [...]
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. [...]
Foraging for food — whether it’s ferreting rare mushrooms in the woods, picking abundant lemons from an overlooked tree, or gathering berries from an abandoned lot — is all the rage among the culinary crowd and the D.I.Y. set, who share their finds with fellow food lovers in fancy restaurant meals or humble home suppers. [...]
Buy Local, local food is sustainable – The Issues – Sustainable Table. After posting yesterday on deciphering the terms used on food labels, I came across a related section of Sustainable Table’s website. Their “Eat Local, Buy Local, Be Local” section is designed to “help consumers learn what’s happening in the local movement and to [...]
Eating locally has restored the link between the farm and the table, an ideal pioneered by Chef Alice Waters at her Berkeley, California restaurant, Chez Panisse in the early 70s. Though not a new concept, applying this ethos to babies in the form of a subscription-based food delivery service may be. Why not satiate your young child’s [...]
