Jeff Nield
Jeff writes mostly about food and agriculture for TreeHugger, but daily life provides too much inspiration to pigeon-hole. He has worked all along the food chain from farm to produce distributor to restaurant and spent many years with British Columbia's preeminent food security non-profit FarmFolkCityFolk. He recently won Gold at the Canadian Online Publishing Awards for a series he co-wrote in The Tyee.
Latest Stories from Jeff Nield - Page 5
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10 Books For The Green Preschooler
A few weeks ago, in my post about Colonel Trash Truck, I was complaining about the scarcity of green stories for the preschooler. Well, after polling my fellow TreeHuggers it turns out I was wrong. There are oodles of stories with
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10 Books For The Green Preschooler
Have You Seen Birds?The star of this book is Barb Reid's plastecine artwork. She sculpts dozens of distinctive birds that will inspire the youngest burgeoning naturalist. A bird spotting key on the back page helps with identification.
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Sea Sick Reveals The Terminal Status Of The Oceans
In case you haven't heard, the oceans are dying. The coral, the fish, the plankton, the whole bloody system is going topsy-turvy. In her new book Sea Sick, Canadian Journalist Alanna Mitchell travels from the shore line to the depths cataloging the woes
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Obamas Turn White House Organic
Since Obama took office and the family moved into the White House things have changed in the food and agriculture landscape in the U.S. of A. Let's review.A collective, "Oh No!"
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Mark Bittman Obsesses About Veganism, Priuses, Carbon Footprints and All That
Obsessed with Samantha Ettus We love Mark Bittman for his sensible approach to cooking and eating. The name of his column in in the New York Times, The Minimalist, says it all. In a recent web interview, Bittman expounds on ecological eating and his
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White House Farm Coming Soon
There's much to be excited about this week in the world of sustainable agriculture in the United States. The news of Obama's nomination of Kathleen Merrigan to be Deputy Secretary of USDA was met with
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What Is The True Cost of Chocolate?
The modern chocolate industry has a long history marred by slavery and deforestation. From the birth of the industry with the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs to the modern industry centered in West Africa the problems have remained
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Urban-Edge Communities Can Retain Agricultural Benefits
We've been reporting on the potential of urban agriculture regularly over the past few years. And just yesterday Mathew reported about how the UN is promoting organic agriculture as a way to ensure
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The Cooperative Launches Plan Bee to Help Save UK's Honeybee
The causes of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) are still in question. While it's surely a combination of factors including climate change and voracious pests like the varoa mite, one of the key suspects is pesticides. Late last year UK
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Colonel Trash Truck Teaches Kids to "Live Green"
Teaching kids about their impact on the natural world can be tricky business. As much as I'm keen to teach my three-and-a-half year old about cradle to cradle design, shifting
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Jargon Watch: Shifting Baselines
Collective memory is a fickle thing. We all know about the decimation of the American Bison, and the lost flocks of Passenger Pigeons a mile wide and 300 miles long. But, other less
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Will Allen's Innovative Aquaculture System Insprires Commercial Application
Will Allen has received a lot of recognition lately. The Milwaukee resident was named a MacArthur genius, and he came in fourth in the voting to become the White House
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Northern Leopard Frog Threatened By Agrochemicals
It seems like frogs just can't catch a break. Scientists have been warning us about the global decline in amphibian populations for years. Habitat destruction, disease and chemicals are commonly cited as causes of
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"Directed Mutagenesis" Heralds Next Wave of Genetic Engineering
The German chemical giant BASF has announced the development of "a new generation of genetically altered crops, by precisely manipulating the plant's own DNA without inserting foreign genes." BASF refers to the
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Film Review: Mad Cow Sacred Cow
Karma Films Mad Cow Sacred Cow depicts the personal journey of filmmaker Anand Ramayya, a self-professed meat eating Hindu. Ramayya and his crew travel from his in-law's small cattle operation nestled in the heart of the Canadian prairies to the
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Organic Food Sales Still Growing Despite Economic Woes
After years of phenomenal growth it seems that sales of organic food are slowing. But, here at TreeHugger we're heartened that the industry is still growing despite the current economic crisis. The numbers tell the tale. The
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Will Obama Change the Way America Eats?
Sustainable food and agriculture watchers have been on a roller coaster ride ever since Barack Obama was given the nod by the American people. Soon after the election there were hopeful, if misguided, calls for Michael
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Farmers Call For Restructuring of Global Food System
A coalition of peasant farmer groups are protesting their meaningful exclusion at the High Level Conference on Food Security taking place in Spain on January 26-27. In response to their exclusion 49
