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In one Brooklyn community, neighborhood residents are fighting to keep their farm. Bed-Stuy Farm, once a neighborhood garbage dump, was transformed into an urban oasis that produces over 7,000 lbs of fresh food every year, helping feed more than 4,000 people a...

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I must confess that before I traveled to Iowa earlier this month, I had rubbed elbows with quite a few farmers, but by and large, they were not typical. Many of them were organic producers. Many were young. Probably a statistically disproportionate number...

Earlier this week, the NY Times Freakonomics blog ran a guest post by author and historian James McWilliams, in which he attempts to weaken the case that the Times made in August regarding farmers' markets: namely, that they strengthen communities.

Before I start boring you with...

As I type up this post, I imagine Roger Doiron, a man I've only met once or twice in person (we've exchanged quite a few emails), is just walking out onto the White House lawn....

Over the years, the amount of time I've spent cooking has waxed and waned, depending mostly on my living situation, my diet and my work situation. In my early 20s, during my first stint as a vegetarian, I cooked often, mostly out of necessity -- the small town where I...

Michelle Obama caught some flack during the run-up to last year's elections when she said she was proud of America "for the first time in [her] adult life." But many of us understood -- at the time, we'd spent years building an international reputation for political apathy, but...

If you drink milk, you probably haven't noticed any drop in the price of a gallon anytime recently. But if you were a dairy farmer, you'd know quite well that the price you'd received for the milk has dropped, because it has fallen so far so fast -- by half...

If you yawned your way through science class back in school, you're not alone. American students have lagged in the science department for years, with fourth and eighth graders recently placing eleventh among international peers. While this is often framed in terms of an inability to compete in the...

Last weekend, before a packed house at Baltimore's Enoch Pratt Library, Michael Pollan declared the recent surge in activist work and interest in food politics a "movement." As usual, Pollan had a lot of great things to say that night, but this piece stood out to me. Friends and colleagues...

As I wrote earlier this week, the virus formerly known as the swine flu (although the CDC continues to say that indeed the H1N1 strain does, as initially reported, contain swine, human and avian virus components) seems quite likely to have links to an industrial hog operation in...

Last Monday, as I boarded a commercial flight, I sneezed. I had sneezed in the car on the way to the airport, and I would sneeze more throughout the day. On my way to the W.K Kellogg Foundation's Food & Society conference, a gathering of nearly 600 "good...

Aside from Earth Day, today marks the Green Fork's one-year anniversary. That we launched this blog one year ago today (with 20 Ways to Green Your Fork) is no coincidence -- the team at Eat Well, along with a growing number of consumers, are concerned about how our...

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As Kerry Trueman pointed out earlier this week in her post...

Everyone is talking about the latest stimulus package. As many grit their teeth over the omission of Obama's proposed salary cap, others, like the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), are taking the opportunity to shame banks like Goldman Sachs for spending billions of stimulus dollars on bonuses...

Maybe Jeremy Piven didn't get mercury poisoning from fish at all -- according to the results of a new study released by the Institute for Agriculture and Trace Policy (IATP), the actor may well have been sickened by soda or candy or anything that contains high fructose corn...

Ever since the stock market took that first dramatic drop, there have been few companies that haven't felt the pinch, few products whose sales haven't dropped. Among them? Spam.

According to this recent New York Times article by Andrew Martin:

Through war and recession, Americans have turned to...

A few months ago, Michael Pollan remarked that the presidential candidates didn't know it yet, but food would be an issue they would have to face, and soon. Today, we know who the next president will be, and it's the same man who proved Pollan wrong a few weeks ago...

As the world watches the stock markets, nobody, but nobody wants to hear about paying more for anything. But one group is moving ahead with a campaign to pressure corporations to pay a little more (a penny a pound, to be exact) for tomatoes. And they're winning.

Before I go...