Tag: Local Food
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How Permaculture Could Transform Campuses Across the Globe
An international conference looks at how permaculture could be applied to transform university and school campuses into food producing, nature-friendly sustainable spaces.
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Doctors Office Transforms 4,000 Sq.Ft Lawn into Edible Landscape
With diabetes and obesity causing major health problems, one family practice is transforming its front lawn into an educational, edible garden.
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Federal Food Aid Recipients Double Their Money at Local Farmers' Markets
The evaluation report three years after Double Up Food Bucks started giving incentives to SNAP (formerly food stamp) recipients
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'Eat Local' Food App Shows What's in Season Near You
With just a few quick clicks you can find what's in season, where to get it, and how to cook it.
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A Refugee Farmer Brings Goat Meat to Kentucky
A Burundian native is pioneering urban goat farming in Louisville. Will it catch on among the locals?
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USDA Map: "Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food"
A neat resource from the USDA that shows agency-supported projects and programs related to local and regional food systems.
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Survival Skills Are Still Sustainable, Even If You'll Never Need Them
A beautiful film celebrates doing things, like starting a fire entirely by hand, that are no longer necessary. There are lessons for us all.
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Farms Use 60 Times More Land Than Cities: It's Time to Develop Terraculture
Agriculture has become the single largest driver of climate change. It's time to start farming for the whole planet.
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Massive 100,000 s.f. Greenhouse Planned for Brooklyn Rooftop
A former Navy warehouse in Brooklyn is to become a home for the largest rooftop farm in the world.
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Toronto's Brewers Plate Serves Seasonal Food and Drink at a Tough Time of Year
Event brings some of Toronto's best chefs together to show what they can do with very little
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A Vertical Garden Feeds 10,000+ Visitors to Chicago O'Hare Airport
Between the fast food outlets and news stands, Chicago O'Hare Airport features an indoor urban garden growing food for its restaurants.
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21 Lessons in Sustainability from the Great Depression
When the Great Recession started four years ago we looked at the lessons we could learn from the Great Depression; Time to dust them off.
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5 Easy Vegetables to Start From Seed in Your Garden
Think you can't grow your own vegetables from seed? Try these five easy seeds and develop that green thumb you didn't know you had.
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60,000 sq.ft. Warehouse Grows Edible Mushrooms for Health and Ecology
A San Francisco gourmet mushroom entrepreneur takes us on a tour of his impressive operation.
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Are These the Tiniest Microfarms of Them All? New York City Artist Grows Food Inside Furniture
From chard on a chair to tat soi in a suitcase, artist Jenna Spevack is cultivating a tasty variety of organic microgreens in her furniture farms -- and visitors to her upcoming gallery show will be able to reap the harvest.
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"Eat More Kale" Crusader Fights Back Against Chick-fil-A's Lawsuit
Fast food giant Chick-fil-A is suing a Vermont t-shirt artist for alleged copyright infringment- but he's not taking it lying down.
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Help a Small Jam Producer Get a Commercial Kitchen
INNA Jam, a small organic jam producer in the Bay Area, is trying to raise funding for a commercial kitchen for themselves and other artisan food makers. Here's how you can help.
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Why Heirloom Grains Will Never Be a Commodity
A South CArolina farmer and entrepreneur is reviving commercially extinct grains. And he's telling the history of the South in the process.
