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With 25 teams of chefs and farmers from the Ottawa region, Canadian Organic Growers’ 5th annual Feast of Fields hosted this tremendous gastronomical delight along the Rideau River in Vincent Massey Park. In two quick hours of meeting farmer and chef teams from the region and sampling their creations, guests tasted some of the best the Ottawa Valley has to offer.

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The Baltimore City Public School system is about to become the first fully Meatless Monday school system in the U.S. They’re joining a growing international movement of individuals, organizations, communities and cities making the commitment to lower meat consumption and enjoy a plant-based diet on Mondays.

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USDA Left Schoolkids Vulnerable The Government Accountability Office has found that the USDA didn’t tell public schools of food safety recalls quickly and may have caused school cafeterias to inadvertently serve tainted foods.
Municipal Water Systems A-gush “Major blowouts” in local water systems are on the rise in cities like LA and Baltimore, hinting at an [...]

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Last week, at the Park Slope Food Coop in Brooklyn, a small audience gathered for the screening of H2 Worker. The film, which opened the coop’s monthly film series on food issues, is an award-winning documentary released in 1990 on the exploitation of Jamaican sugar cane harvesters working in Florida. Shot clandestinely in the cane fields and the workers’ barracks, the film exposed the plight of thousands of Caribbean men who came to Florida every year to work in conditions reminiscent of the days of slavery on sugar plantations. Working long hours under the scathing sun, cutting the cane by hand with rudimentary machetes, living in overcrowded barracks, poorly fed, denied medical treatment for on-site injuries and frequently cheated out of wages, these workers paid the human cost of a global system that perpetuated their exploitation.

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I’m always amazed by the number of folks who think that most of Central Park is some kind of natural habitat of indigenous plants, a pristine terrain onto which we plunked our bike paths, boathouses and pretzel vendors.

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