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Sustainable Agriculture

Closing the Farm to Plate Knowledge Gap

Rob Smart | Posted 07.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Farming, Sustainable Food, Lobbyists, Agriculture, Factory Farms, Sustainable Agriculture, Industrial Food System, Obesity, Industrial Agriculture, Green News
Rob Smart

Consumer advocates for sustainable, healthy food are fighting with farmers, not because either picked a fight with the other, but because the knowledge gap between them has grown so expansive.

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Lawns Versus Gardens In Beverly Hills

Susan Smalley, Ph.D. | Posted 07.26.2009 | Living

Read More: La, Organic Farming, Farming, Sustainable Food, White House Garden, Michelle Obama, Sustainable Agriculture, Lawn, Beverly Hills, Gardening, White House Vegetable Garden, Victory Garden, Living News
Susan Smalley, Ph.D.

I have something in common with Michelle Obama, a brand new vegetable garden in my back yard. Mine was started by my 21 year old son, home from colle...

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A Volunteer Day at Stone Barns, Celebrating Five Years of Sustainable Farming & Education

Cathy Erway | Posted 07.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Farming, Greenhouses, Blue Hill at Stone Barns, Blue Hill Restaurant, Stone Barns, Jack Algiere, Seed Saving, Dan Barber, Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture, Food, Sustainable Agriculture, Inc., Green News
Cathy Erway

A working farm and educational center, Stone Barns is perhaps the most lauded archetype for sustainable agriculture in the Northeast, and popular destination for eco-conscious foodies

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Food, Inc.: HuffPost Bloggers Weigh In (Video)

Katherine Goldstein | Posted 07.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Video, Robert Kenner, Movie Reviews Food Inc Reviews, Food Inc., Agriculture, Food-Inc-Movie, Food, Sustainable Agriculture, Inc., Food and Environment, Green News
Katherine Goldstein

Do you happen to eat food? Then this movie's for you. Check out what HuffPost bloggers are saying about the film, and watch the trailer.

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Greed in the Seed: The "Inconvenient Truth" of How Food Gets to Your Table Revealed in Food, Inc.

Dr. Patricia Fitzgerald | Posted 07.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Farming, Michael Pollan, Vegetarian, Factory Farming, Organic Food, Healthy, Health, Vegan, Economic Crisis, Food, Sustainable Agriculture, Eating, Food Inc, Sustainable Farming, Meat, Wellness, Eric Schlosser, Living News
Dr. Patricia Fitzgerald

Food, Inc. is a film whose time has come. With the economic meltdown and the change at the White House, people are demanding more transparency and accountability from those in charge.

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Trading Backyard Bounty: Foraging For Fruit Gains Popularity

nytimes.com | Kim Severson | Posted 07.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Sharing, Independent Farmers, Organic Gardening, Fruit, Sustainable Agriculture, Organic Produce, Neighbors, Gardening, Giving, Fallen Fruit, The Giving Life, Living News

It was just another day of urban fruit foraging for Ms. Wadud, one of a growing number of people who looked around their cities, saw trees full of fru...

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Sustainable Agriculture Is Pro-Technology Within a Cyclical Model

Paula Crossfield | Posted 07.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainability, Technology, Organic, Big Ag, Food Politics, Agriculture, Green News
Paula Crossfield

Let's finally put to bed the binary argument that sustainable agriculture proponents are all about hand tools and hard labor for little returns. We like technology, just not technology-worship.

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More Bang for Your Food Buck

Stefan Aschan | Posted 07.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Community Shared Agriculture, Food Safety, Sustainable Agriculture, Michelle Obama, Consumer Spending, Agriculture, Living News
Stefan Aschan

Although Michelle Obama has a plot for a huge vegetable garden, not all of us have the time, place or space to do the same. If you are in this situation, why not try "Community Shared Agriculture?"

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Protecting the Rights of Mother Earth

Danielle Cavallucci | Posted 07.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Monsanto, Family Planning, Population Control, Earth Friendly, Overpopulation, Mother Earth, Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainable Farming, Planned Parenthood, Green News
Danielle Cavallucci

A Monsanto ad really set me off with their "sustainable agriculture" full pager in the New York Times last week. How about answering the Earth's ple...

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Future Shock

Kathy Freston | Posted 07.04.2009 | Living

Read More: Vegetarian, President Obama, Agriculture, Vegan, Sustainable Agriculture, Animals, Vegetarianism, Living News
Kathy Freston

Dateline: June of the year 2109, in a high school social sciences class in Boise, Idaho.

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Farmer Heroes

Lorna Sass | Posted 06.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Badlands, Fresh the Movie, Farming, Caineville, Sustainable Agriculture, Green Living, Utah Farming, Utah, Randy Ramsley, Green News
Lorna Sass

Through hard work, these farmers have developed a method of farming sustainably in the Utah desert at the same time as they improve the soil in these badlands.

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Farmers Markets are the Stores of the Future

Makenna Goodman | Posted 06.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Sustinable-Energy, Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainable Business, Local Business, Farmers Markets, Food, Living News
Makenna Goodman

By gradually re-localizing our food production we can return to an agricultural system that is much less energy intensive.

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Fresh -- New Thinking About What We're Eating

Ana Joanes | Posted 06.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Food, Sustainable Agriculture, Food Matters, Michael Pollan, Eating Matters, Fresh, Agriculture, Farmers, Green News
Ana Joanes

It is not only the pig whose pig-ness we need to respect, but the Ana-ness of Ana. By learning to respect and embrace the truth of who I am, I too can find my place and role in this world.

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Sacred Bull

Tom Christopher | Posted 05.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Sustainable Agriculture, Cows, Sustainable Food, Fossil Fuels, Carbon Footprint, Agriculture, Ontario, Vegetables, Green News
Tom Christopher

Transport in bulk by rail or ship is more energy efficient than moving foods in small quantities from farm to market by truck.

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A Food Revolution in the Making, from Victory Gardens to the White House Lawn

Michael Pollan | Posted 05.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Nrdc, Michelle Obama, Michael Pollan, Local Food, White House Garden, Sustainable Food, In Defense of Food, Agriculture, Sustainable Agriculture, The Omnivore's Dilemma, Gardening, Local Farmers, Victory Garden, Victory Gardens, Green News
Michael Pollan

If we want to make significant progress in reducing global warming we will need to wean the American food system off its heavy diet of fossil fuel and put it back on a diet of solar energy.

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The Doctor With A Dirty Prescription To Purge Our Bodies, And Our Planet

Kerry Trueman | Posted 05.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Usda, Organic Farming, White House Kitchen Garden, Tom Vilsack, Rodale Institute, J. I. Rodale, Sustainable Agriculture, Dr. Tim LaSalle, Organic, Green News
Kerry Trueman

Until we start celebrating earth with a small "e" everyday, all the compact fluorescent light bulbs and reusable shopping bags and hybrid cars and stainless steel water bottles in the world won't cut it.

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Starting Farming on the Cheap: An Interview with Two Young Farmers

Leslie Hatfield | Posted 05.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Greenhorns, Pastured Poultry, Beginning Farmers, Sustainable Agriculture, Free Range Chickens, Wolf Lake Farm, Pennsyslvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture, New Farmers, Pittsburgh, Green News
Leslie Hatfield

"Our desire to farm was fueled by our suspicion that this economic failure was on the horizon and by our disgust with the commercial food system."

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Young Agrarians: Digging The Future

Kerry Trueman | Posted 05.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Scott Stringer, Sustainable Agriculture, Thomas Jefferson, Greenhorns, Industrial Agriculture, Real Food Challenge, Green News
Kerry Trueman

We need to make growing food a prestigious profession again, as it was when our country was founded.

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A Survival Guide to Eating Chicken you Can Feel Good About

Jerusha Klemperer | Posted 05.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Chicken, Certified Humane, Sustainable Food, Livestock, Barefoot Contessa, Sustainable Agriculture, River Cottage Cookbook, Csa, Green Living, Green News
Jerusha Klemperer

Without getting into the gory details, industrially produced chickens lead a (how do I say this nicely?) less than charmed life. I outline your various options for how/where to get chicken you can feel good about.

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It's Time to Take the Pharma Out of Farming

Steve Ells | Posted 04.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Farming, Food Matters, Politics of Food, Sustainable Food, Agriculture, Antibiotics, Farm Animals, Chipotle, Agribusiness, Sustainable Agriculture, Food, Animals, Meat, Industrial Agriculture, Green News
Steve Ells

Antibiotic use is not a prerequisite to life on the farm, but rather a threat to life itself. Let's preserve these drugs for the sick animals and humans who need them.

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Agribiz Biostitute Declares Fresh Healthy Food A Menace

Kerry Trueman | Posted 04.01.2009 | Green

Read More: National School Lunch Program, Sustainable Agriculture, School Food, Organic Farming, Alice Waters, Henry I. MIller, Industrial Agriculture, Green News
Kerry Trueman

Welcome to another steaming poo-poo platter of Agribriz propaganda served up by a biostitute whose foundation is fossil-fueled by Archer Daniels Midland, Exxon, Ford, GM and Chrysler.

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The Tequila Industry: A Model for Conservation?

Susan Cosier | Posted 03.04.2009 | World

Read More: Tequila, Farming, Geographical Indication, Agave, Chile, South America, Central America, Economy, Sustainable Agriculture, Mexico, Liquor, Colombia, Farmers, Alcohol, Sustainability, North America, World News
Susan Cosier

For centuries farmers have been roasting, fermenting and distilling the agave plant's roasted heart to brew what many consider to be the national drink of Mexico: tequila.

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The Giving Garden

Bridget Mason and Kayomi Wada | Posted 02.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Helping the Needy, Children, Sustainable Food, Economy, Sustainable Agriculture, Community, Obama Service, Mlk, Mlk Day Service Day, Call to Service, Obama Call to Service, Giving Back to the Community, University of Washington Tacoma, Obama Canvassing, Farms, Volunteering, Kids, Service, Giving Back, Vegetables, Financial Crisis, Community Organizing, Poor, Gardening, Teaching, Learning, Volunteering for Obama, Farming, Community Service, Low-Income, Economic Crisis, War, Martin Luther King Jr., Science, Washington State, Barack Obama, MLK Day of Service, Harvesting, Helping the Poor, Tacoma, Organic Food, Martin Luther King, Fruit, Homelessness, Environment, Food, Sustainability, Mlk Day Community Service, Japanese, Donations, Gardens, Canvassing, Living News
Bridget Mason and Kayomi Wada

Judging by the almost 80 volunteers who came out to build a garden in Downtown Tacoma, I would have to say there are a lot of Americans out there just waiting for an opportunity to give back!

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Change We Can Believe In, or a Second Helping of the Same-Old?

Paula Crossfield | Posted 02.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Food Agenda, Obama, Usda, Tom Vilsack, Cafo, New Administration, Sustainable Food, Obama Inauguration, Agriculture, Sustainable Agriculture, Barack Obama Inauguration, Tom Vilsack and Barack Obama, Sustainable, Sustainability, Food, Tom Vilsack Agriculture Secretary, Green News
Paula Crossfield

I hate to put a damper on your inaugural enthusiasm, but the time to act is now if we hope to at least have someone with an interest in building a better food system at the table.

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Blaze A "Sun Food" Trail To The Inauguration

Kerry Trueman | Posted 02.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Sustainable Agriculture, Road Food, Eat Well Everywhere, Obama Inauguration, Eat Well Guide, Industrialized Agriculture, Green News
Kerry Trueman

The election may be over, but we still get to vote three times a day for a more humane and sustainable food chain.

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