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There may always be water flowing in California, but “normal” is definitely in flux and we can’t control the weather. Before we construct massive new water delivery systems that encourage waste and consume large amounts of energy, perhaps we should consider adjusting our expectations about what can realistically be grown, when and where. Maybe it’s time to stop creating fruits that are too expensive or too complicated to be eaten in good conscience.

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Yesterday, at the historic site of the old Fulton Fish Market, New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn held a press conference to announce the launch of “NYers 4 Markets,” a coalition to support the development of a permanent market at this very location in South Street Seaport.

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Earlier this month I ventured down to the nation’s capital to attend Meeting the Demand: Growing Markets for Sustainable Meat and Dairy Production, a conference organized by the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR). Turned out to be well-worth the epic all-in-one-day roundtrip subway/train ride; ICCR managed to cram the schedule full of speakers, panels, and workshops like pork in the farm bill. Lots of big ideas; lots of inspiring solutions.

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Are the teabaggers ready to stop throwing tomatoes and start growing tomatoes? Glenn Beck’s latest sponsor, The Survival Seed Bank, is banking on Tea Party paranoia to sell a product it calls the “Full Acre Crisis Garden.” As Stephen Colbert noted last Wednesday, “nothing moves product like the hot stink of fear.”

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Cultivating Contrariness This week, The Atlantic published a hit piece by Caitlin Flanagan on school gardens, which elicited near-immediate responses from Grist’s Tom Philpott, Serious Eats’ Ed Levine and The Atlantic’s own Corby Krummer.
Leasing Land In a questionable scheme to localize food production, land-rich, capital-poor Ethiopia, a major food importer, is leasing large tracts [...]

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