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Local Food Movement

James McWilliams' Over-Hyped and Undercooked Anti-Locavore Polemic

Stephanie Paige Ogburn | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Food Movement, James McWilliams, Local Food, Local Food Movement, Locavore, Just Food, Green News
Stephanie Paige Ogburn

The problem with McWilliams' argument is its irrelevance. To devote an entire book to debunking the impulse to eat closer to home doesn't address the points raised by food and farm activists.

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Has Lays Gone Too Far in Claiming Their Chips Are "Local"?

Tara Lohan | Posted 09.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Eating Locally, Farming, Lays, Local Food, Local Food Movement, Frito-Lay, Locavore, Green News
Tara Lohan

For most locavores, buying local usually means shopping at your independent Main Street retailer or farmers market, not buying processed foods from a multibillion-dollar enterprise as Lays would have them do.

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Top Ten Undiscovered Cities For Local Food (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Barbara Fenig | Posted 09.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Top Ten List, Locavore Restaurants, Undiscovered Local Food, Slidepoll, Ithaca, Green, Best-Green-Restaurants, Green Beer Month, Ashevile, Local Food Movement, Salt Lake City, Honolulu, Green Beer, Green Eats, Local Food Cities You Haven't Heard About, Madison, Top Ten, San Antonio, Green Living, Bellingham, Green Food, Undiscovered Local Food Cities, Local Food, Restaurants, Cleveland, Food, Slideshow, Burlington, Local Food Restaurants, Beer Month, Healdsburg, Green News

We here at HuffPost Green were so inspired by our readers' response to our 10 Best US Cities for Local Food piece that we decided to host another roun...

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Celebrate National Farmers Market Week!

Planet Green | Kelly Rossiter | Posted 09.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Farmers' Market, National Farmers Market Week, Organic Food, Local Food, Local Food Movement, Farmers Markets, Green, Food, Green Living, Green News

This week marks National Farmers' Market Week in the United States. According to The Huffington Post this recognition began in 2000. In almost ten yea...

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Will Obama, Gates And Crowley Drink Local Beer At White House? Brewers Hope So

The Boston Globe | July 28, 2009 07:24 PM | Posted 08.29.2009 | Green

Read More: James Crowley, Food, Obama, Skip Gates, Local Food Movement, Local Beer, White House Beer, Obama Crowley Gates Beer, Green News

With two locals heading to the White House tomorrow for a couple of the most-talked-about beers ever, some area brewmasters say a Bay State beer shoul...

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Chicago's Green Food Resolution Advances

Wesley Epplin | Posted 08.27.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Organic Farming, Food Movement, Chicago City Council, Organic Gardening, Growing Power, Organic Food, Farmers Markets, Chicago Food Deserts, Green Food Resolution, Local Farmers, Local Food Movement, Food, Green Living, Chicago News
Wesley Epplin

Chicago is even closer to beating out the likes of New York and San Francisco in officially resolving to help both the the planet and their citizens by encouraging more sustainable, healthier food options.

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Young Butchers Gain Rock Star Status in the Food World

nytimes.com | KIM SEVERSON | Posted 08.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Food, Butchers, Local Food, Local Food Movement, Meat, Green News

Now there is a new kind of star on the food scene: young butchers. With their swinging scabbards, muscled forearms and constant proximity to flesh, bu...

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Community Supported Agriculture: Green Food At Your Doorstep

Huffington Post | Johanna Smith | Posted 02.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Organic Farming, Farming, Vegetarian, Food Matters, Local Food, Politics of Food, Eating Matters, Local Food Movement, Csa, Vegan, Sustainability, Community Supported Agriculture, Green Living, Locavore, Green News

Short of tilling your own backyard, joining a Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA) scheme is perhaps the most effective way you can green your eating...

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Philippines: Local Farmers Battle Agribusiness Corporations Over Aerial Spraying Case

Profits Vs Public Health | Posted 01.23.2009 | World

Read More: Davao Province, Local Food, Sigatoka, Aerial Spraying Philippines, Local Food Movement, Agribusiness, Asia, Philippines, Local Farmers, Ashley Dupre, World News

MANILA, Dec 23 (IPS) - Cecilia Moran never thought that she would one day have to give up farming owing to poor health. She grew up helping her father...

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Take That, Frost: Local Eating In Winter

Huffington Post | Johanna Smith | Posted 01.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Organic Food, Local Food, Eating Matters, Local Food Movement, Environment, Eating Locally, Winter, Green News

In the Northeast especially, eating local is practically irresistible from, say, May through October. Farmers' markets and, increasingly, supermarkets...

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Chickens As Pets: An Urban Farmstead

Los Angeles Times | Deborah Netburn | Posted 01.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Eggs, Chicken, Chickens, Pets, Eating Matters, Local Food Movement, Urban Farming, Environment, Urban Farms, Cage Free Eggs, Animals, Los Angeles, Local Farmers, Green News

Erik Knutzen and Kelly Coyne started keeping chickens in their Echo Park backyard a little more than a year ago. The two are co-authors of "The Urban ...

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Make Your Own Hot Sauce With Local Chiles

Bitten | Kerri Conan | Posted 12.20.2008 | Green

Read More: Diy, Food Matters, Local Food, Hot Sauce, Politics of Food, Eating Matters, Local Food Movement, Green News

If you hurry, you should still find a few bushels of local chiles here and there. Grab what you can -- at least a couple quarts -- and don't worry abo...

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Feeding the Candidates

Liz Neumark | Posted 12.12.2008 | Style

Read More: Healthy Eating, Gourmet Cooking, Local Food, Local Food Movement, Cooking, Good Eats, Food, Presidential Candidates, Local Farmers, Locavores, Style News
Liz Neumark

This fall, within the period of a few weeks, I fed Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama. First thing a good New York foodie will ask is what did they eat.

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