New England Food Vision
From Food Solutions New England A New England Food Vision is a collaborative report that considers the future of our region: a future in which food nourishes a social, economic, and environmental landscape that supports a high quality of life for everyone, including generations to come. Read A New England Food Vision! Read the Full […]
Agrarian Trust Advisory Board’s Wes Jackson on Ecology Hour Radio
Listen to Wes Jackson on the Ecology Hour
Past Common Sense: Agrarian Justice
An idea over two centuries old. Still seems like a pretty good idea. What can we take from our past to help secure our future? Agrarian Justice by Thomas Paine 1795 To preserve the benefits of what is called civilized life, and to remedy at the same time the evil which it has produced, ought […]
The Fire Next time is Now: Thoughts from the Environmental Front
originally published by the Texas Observer online in 2011 by Robert Jensen The fire next time is now: Environmental historian Angus Wright’s call for a planetary patriotism Angus Wright has a way of saying things we may not want to hear in a way that’s hard to ignore. An example: During a meeting of […]
Food Ethics Roundtable 6/19 at NYU
Whose Responsibility? Marketing and the Ethics of Big Food Date: Thursday, June 19, 2014 Time: 6:00-7:30 pm (reception from 6:00-6:30) Venue: Grand Hall at NYU Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012 Is there anything inherently wrong with the way snack foods are developed and marketed? How much responsibility should rest on […]
40 Maps that Explain Food in America
from vox.com by Ezra Klein and Susannah Locke on June 9, 2014 The future of the nations will depend on the manner of how they feed themselves, wrote the French epicurean Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin in 1826. Almost 200 years later, how nations feed themselves has gotten a lot more complicated. That’s particularly true in the US, where food insecurity […]
Conventional Idaho Farm Survives, Seeing Changing Market
From the Idaho Stateman by Audrey Dutton Three generations of farmers will spend this summer working the 400 acres of soil known as Sunny View Farms, on the outer edge of Caldwell. The Freeman family grows everything from sugar beets and onions to wheat and seeds that other farmers rely on to grow their own […]
Farm Leasing Workshop in New York June 26th
American Farmland Trust is planning a Farm Leasing Workshop in Saratoga County. They’ll have a panel discussing a variety of important considerations of leasing agricultural land including legal considerations, elements of a good lease and negotiating techniques. Learn more at http://newyork.farmland.org/ and pre-register by June 20th.
Featured Resource: Farm to Table Topic Room
A New Resource from SARE: Farm to Table: Building Local and Regional Food Systems. This topic room was created to provide information for farmers, ranchers, ag professionals, community organizers and others who are striving to reconfigure the nation’s food system so more value stays in food-producing communities. Dig deeper to find educational resources on the […]
Grass, Soil, Hope: New Book About Taking Care of the Land
New book by Courtney White, published by Chelsea Green Where people are fighting climate change and growing food with pasture cropping, permaculture, wetland restoration, rooftop farms, biodiesel, beer, and sweaty dancing. This book tackles an increasingly crucial question: What can we do about the seemingly intractable challenges confronting all of humanity today, including climate change, […]