Tag: Local Food - Page 3
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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.
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Small Farmers Create Jobs. Here's Why.
Research shows that small investments in local food systems can reap incredible returns, creating jobs and building resilient communities.
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7 Humane Solutions to Rat and Mice Infestations
These are the nice guy alternatives to poison and sticky traps.
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Occupy Our Food Supply on February 27, A Global Day Of Action
Today marks the launch of a massive day of action to reform our food supply. Here's why we all need to join in.
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Here's What's Wrong With Our Food, But We Can't Fix It By Eating Alone
From factory farming to excessive sprays to the emotion-based marketing of food, a new video nails the shortcomings of our food system. But it offers only partial solutions.
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Brewers Embrace Urban Hops from Backyard Farmers
Independent breweries in London may start buying hops from allotments, backyard farmers and anyone who will grow them.
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Walk Turkey's Beautiful 'Honey Road' This Summer for a Sweet Taste of Local Culture
An innovative eco-tourism project in northeast Turkey will take travelers along ancient nomadic routes to taste artisanal organic honey, meet local beekeepers, and enjoy spectacular scenery along the way.
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Making The Case For Resilient Design
Alex Wilson At Building Green Completes His Series on Resilient Building; It isn't like Doomsday Preppers, more like the Three Little Pigs.
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Even Farmers Cry When Lambs Are Led to Slaughter
A farm-to-table dinner reveals insights on why farmers do what they do.
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How a Village Became a Hub for Resilience and Rock & Roll
From a "five star gas station" to a leading music venue, some old cotton mills in rural North Carolina are becoming a hub of a new economy.
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A Farmer Preserves Heirloom Corn, Molasses and Mountain Moonshine Too (Video)
Heirloom corn and sorghum molasses provide a window to our past in the hands of a small family farmer. So does a slightly stronger, more illicit drink.
