Thanksgiving Reader 2016
• The DES MOINES REGISTER reports that it will cost 24 cents less to prepare a typical Thanksgiving dinner this year, according to the American […]
Month: November 2016
“The fridge is outside. It’s quite big.” – Making Grilled Cheese in Antartica
“We need salami. For that we need to go to the fridge.” “Where’s the fridge?” “The fridge is outside. It’s quite big.”
Tales of a Recovering Pollanite
So I was a chef with left wing politics, a former union organizer and farm worker, and an armchair nutritionist when I started stumbling across various voices from the Food Movement some time around 2005. It’s hard to imagine someone better primed for a message of sustainable agriculture, grassroots activism, local economics, and low income community food security. Being a Massachusetts born union organizer who lived in cities but often worked in rural communities in the South has irrevocably scrambled my cultural allegiances in ways that would eventually play havoc with my loyalties in the debates the Food Movement had started. But I’m getting ahead of myself.
4 Important Lessons Hurricane Matthew Teaches Us About Resilience
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Kevin Folta: The FAFDL Interview
Just a few weeks before Professor Folta was awarded the 2016 Borlaug CAST Communication Award, he sat down with the FAFDL community for a chat. Our community is well aware of his scicomm efforts, so after touching quickly on that, we dug in, to get a better understanding of his research.
Daily Essentials | Monday, November 7, 2016
• A heartbreaking story from Al Jazeera on olive groves in Bethlehem, occupied West Bank that produce some of the finest olive oil in the […]
If There Was a Nobel Silver Medal, I’d Award it to Jeffrey Gordon and Our Gut Microbes
GUEST AUTHOR: Tim Spector, Professor of Genetic Epidemiology, King’s College London | Twitter: @timspector This article originally appeared on The Conversation. It appears here by […]
Who Lives Longest: Meat Eaters or Vegetarians?
Guest Author: James Brown | Lecturer in Biology and Biomedical Science, Aston University This article originally appeared on The Conversation. It is published here by […]
Here’s What We Can Do About the Huge Greenhouse Gas Problems of Landfills and Food Waste
Guest author: Erica Gies | Twitter:@egies This article previously appeared in Ensia. It appears here by permission under a Creative Commons license. Food and yard […]
We Need Young Farmers, and Colleges Can Help
Guest Author: Chelsey Simpson, communications director for the National Young Farmers Coalition | Twitter:@ChelseySimply This article originally appeared in Yes! Magazine. It appears here by […]
The Experimental Diet That Mimics a Rare Genetic Mutation
Guest author: Peter Bowes This article first appeared on Mosaic and is republished here under a Creative Commons license. Peter Bowes has been on a […]
Have GMOs Failed to Live Up to Their Promise? You’re Asking the Wrong Question!
Guest Author: Andrew Kniss, Associate Professor, Weed Biology & Ecology University of Wyoming | Follow him on Twitter: @WyoWeeds This essay previously appeared on Plant Out […]
The World’s Biggest School Meal Program Is Keeping Local Farmers in Business
Guest Author: Chris Arsenault | Follow him in Twitter: @chrisarsenaul This piece previously appeared in Yes! Magazine. It appears here by permission under a Creative […]
How Migrant Workers Are Critical to the Future of Australia’s Agricultural Industry
Guest Post: Jock Collins, Professor of Social Economics, UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney This article originally appeared on The Conversation. It appears here […]