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A familiar voice for farmers Neil Young, a board member at Farm Aid and a farmer himself, landed a small-farm-friendly op-ed in the Boston Globe this week.  Who doesn’t want to listen to Neil Young?
A White House garden on its way? Secretary of Agriculture Vilsack advisor Neil Hamilton predicts that the White House will have [...]

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Oregon’s Statesman Journal reported earlier this month about a guy who abandoned a year-long effort to eat only local food. After 8 months of sticking to the diet, he bought a banana.
Justin Rothboeck told the paper that while sticking to the regimen, he’d felt he was violating the very ideals that locavores espouse, spewing carbon [...]

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Herbalist, activist, author and fermentation revivalist Sandor Katz recently announced his spring schedule, which includes two fermentation intensives at his new teaching kitchen at Little Short Mountain Farm in Tennessee. He also launched this amazing forum for fermentation enthusiasts to share information and set up skillshares and the like.
For anybody who isn’t familiar with [...]

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Today’s Healthy Monday tip: Check the USDA recall list.
The nation-wide recall of peanuts that surfaced about a month ago has turned out to be one of the largest in US history. The latest stats reveal that 654 people in 44 states have been diagnosed with salmonella poisoning.
Unfortunately, peanut products that may be contaminated with [...]

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The market value of food safety The party is over for Vilsack at Obama Foodorama, where Eddie takes the Sec of Ag to task for this quote on the peanut butter scandal: “At the end of the day, (food safety) is about preserving the income opportunities for farmers and ranchers…We’ve got to make sure the [...]

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We’ve blogged once or twice about New Amsterdam before, but we could really never say enough about their mission to reinvent the indoor public market as a civic institution in the City of New York.
Their hope (and ours!) is to have a place where butchers, grocers, mongers, and other retail and wholesale purveyors can connect [...]

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There is lots of excitement today here in Ottawa as President Obama is visiting with Prime Minister Harper. Thousands gathered on Parliament Hill this morning to catch a glimspe of the new President.  The first of Obamas’ visits since his inauguration is signifcant for Americans and Canadians alike. Some issues being covered include trade, NAFTA re-negotioations, the [...]

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Our friends at Just Food, a local non-profit in which aims to build a sustainable food system in New York City, will be hosting their 9th annual Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) conference on Sunday, March 8th from 10:00am to 6:00 pm at Teachers College, Columbia University.
The conference is slated to have workshops and discussions on [...]

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This past spring I had the pleasure of visiting North Creek Farm in Phippsburg, Maine, just as the first summer vegetables were starting to pop up through the soil. This little farm is located just down the road from Popham Beach State Park and the Morse Mountain Nature Preserve, so it’s a great place to [...]

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Is it the 21st Century? In the wake of a case the Chief Assistant US Attorney called one of Southwest Florida’s biggest, ugliest slavery cases ever (and the seventh such case in the last ten years) the Coalition of Immokalee Workers is calling on Florida Gov. Charlie Crist to publicly denounce slavery. If you’d [...]

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