Tag: Community Supported Agriculture - Page 2
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Heritage Vegetables are So Trendy In New York That Sotheby's Is Now Auctioning Them
Sotheby's New York Auction House is holding an Art of Farming sale to support farmers' organizations in the New York state area. The items on the auction block are so amazing that you will want them all! Consider: cocktails and
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What's Mine is Yours - The Rise of Collaborative Consumption (Book review)
"Barter, Swap, or Pass on this Book." These are the first words you see on opening What's Mine is Yours - The Rise of Collaborative Consumption. Printed on the inner jacket of the book, in the style of a
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Baltimore Appoints a Food Czar
Baltimore is a set beset by "food deserts"—vast urban areas without access to anything but fast food, snack cakes, bags of chips, and soda. The city is not unique in it's situation—cities across the country face the
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Guerilla Gardening. Literally.
Is it the militarization of gardening? Or the gardenization of weapons? Following in the tradition of putting flowers into gun barrels, Tony Minh Nguyen and SnowHome have taken inspiration from the concept of "guerilla gardening" to
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Raj Patel on The Value of Nothing
Raj Patel is one of the few people who has both worked at the World Bank, and been tear gassed protesting against it. An activist scholar, and author of Stuffed and Starved, Patel argues that markets are a beautiful thing, but that modern capitalism has
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The Anarchy of Cheese Made Simple
Image: Chelsea Green Book Review: Cheesemonger by Edgar Gordon Cheesemonger inspires one to become an expert on cheese -- or on anything for that matter -- with the realization that this goal is achievable with a good dose of humility, curiosity and
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Best of Green: Food and Health (Slideshow)
Of all the environmental issues to think about -- and there a lot of them -- questions concerning food and health are common to us all. We've all got to eat, and do so every day, and so questions of how we manage the environment and how the environment
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Urban Shepherds Help Save the Fields
When Brighton council advertised for volunteer shepherds they never imagined that they would get hundreds of applicants. It's not the greatest job description: no pay, lots of walking on quite steep, uneven slopes, duty
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The Raw Milk Revolution (Book Review)
Thomas Jefferson said "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." But in the modern age, it is the flow of money, rather than blood, which mainly determines the outcome of questions of freedom
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Tennessee Town Passes Nation's First Green Food Resolution
Beating out New York City, the small Tennessee town of Signal Mountain is the first in the nation to pass a Green Food Resolution. But, just what does a Green Food Resolution mean for farmers, consumers, and
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Incredible Edible: How To Make Your Town Self-sufficient
While citizens of the world turn their eyes to Copenhagen, awaiting leadership with dwindling hope, one town has taken matters into the hands of the people. An idea that started around a kitchen table has grown into a
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On a Wind and a Care. The Sail Transport Company Freight Food By Yacht
Previously we've talked about a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) carbon neutral project to ship grain from paddocks to pantries via sail-craft. That was in Canada's British Columbia. For the past year the Sail Transport
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The Farmer-Veteran Coalition. A Modern Swords to Ploughshares
Writing for TreeHugger is such a brilliant job. We get to seek out all the positive news stories. To shine a little light on solutions, instead of only focussing on dark problems. It's food for the soul.
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Canada's First Grain CSA Transports Via Sailboat and Triples Demand in Second Year
Jeff reported on the launch of this unique(ly) Candadian CSA, Urban Grains, that brings grain to shareholders, roughly this time last year. While a grain CSA is unique, this one is extra special because
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Sacramento High School Students Create Their Own CSA
Several (make that almost 1,000 this year) industrious high school students, with the help of a very involved teacher, have created their own Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program, which raises money for
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Movie Review: Fresh Offers New Thinking About What We're Eating
Disaster, devastation, destruction: Those are the none too cheerful themes of many environmental movies, e.g. The Age of Stupid, 11th Hour, The Day after Tomorrow. While the fear factor has its purpose, we don't think it
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Carbon Gold Promote Strict Regulations With World's First Biochar Methodology
Today the world's first biochar methodology has been published for public consultation by the Voluntary Carbon Standard. This ground breaking paper has been submitted by the UK based biochar project developers Carbon Gold. They
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Crop Swap: Free Food in Hard Times
I don't know about you, but here in Sacramento the zucchinis are huge and they've all ripened at the same time. I've pretty much had my fill and can expect that every barbeque I go to will try to serve me up some grilled
