There's just no downside to preparing your own food! Imagine the pantry filled with homemade preserves, home canned fruits and vegetables, and smoked meats. Having trouble imagining? Don't know where to start with your canning project?...
Added Saturday, July 2, 2011
Added Tuesday, June 28, 2011
[From the website]
"Americans's right to access fresh, healthy foods of their choice is under attack. Farmageddon tells the story of small, family farms that were providing safe, healthy foods to their communities and were...
Added Tuesday, June 7, 2011
economy, farm, local food, gmo, non-gmo
"Organic foods, by definition, can't contain genetically modified organisms, known as GMOs. But genetically modified corn, soy and other crops have become such common ingredients in processed foods that even one of the nation's top...
Added Sunday, April 24, 2011
Local politics -- schools, zoning, council elections -- hit us where we live. So why don't more of us actually get involved? Is it apathy? Dave Meslin says no. He identifies 7 barriers that keep us from taking part in our communities, even...
Added Thursday, April 21, 2011
From SF Gate
With the stroke of pen -- punctuated by a celebratory "salad toast" of local greens -- Mayor Ed Lee today signed legislation that allows for "urban agriculture" throughout the city, including the sale of produce from...
Added Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Georgia Commissioner of Agriculture Gary Black, CDC representatives, a representative from Georgia's Lieutenant Governor's office, DeKalb County nutrition staff, local farmers, and representatives from 4H, the DeKalb County Health...
Added Saturday, March 26, 2011
[From the original article]
"Northern and central Brooklyn have some of the unhealthiest food stores in New York City, according to a paper published by New York City District Public Health Office researchers in January. "We...
Added Monday, March 14, 2011
community, economy, gardening, local food, rooftop farming, rooftop gardening, urban farming, motivational
"This farm in the middle of urban Queens isn't just about ecological idealism. Here, one city gardener is trying to do more. He's trying to take his organic rooftop farm and merge environmental sustainability with fiscal...
Added Tuesday, March 8, 2011
"Community is built upon conversations. People like to eat, and they like to talk about it. Ask a stranger anywhere in the world what or where he likes to eat, and chances are he’ll open up."
Who doesn't like to...
Added Tuesday, March 8, 2011
"Garry Stephenson, coordinator of the Small Farms Program at...
