A market for non-GMO foods
Slow Food Upstate leader Janette Wesley tells us what makes Earth Markets different from other farmers markets, how the project got started, and what’s next for the market.
Celebrate Love Your Farmer Day
This year February 14th is no longer “Valentines’ Day,” but Love your Farmer Day!
Speak up about corporate control of the food supply
On December 8th, in Washington DC, the Dept of Justice and the USDA will be holding a workshop (kind of like a town hall) to hear from farmers and consumers. Join us!
Animals: a dystopic glimpse of our future as eaters?
by Patrick Keeler
“You are what you eat.” It’s a trite aphorism amongst us sustainable food advocates, but never so literally has this adage been applied than in the new novel Animals by Don…
Farmers look for justice in the poultry industry
by Dave Murphy, founder of Food Democracy Now and member of Slow Food Clear Lake, Iowa
For America’s remaining 30,000 poultry growers, the Department of Justice and USDA’s joint workshop on…
This week’s Food News
by intern Christine Binder
The Food Movement, Rising – New York Review of Books
Michael Pollan’s epic essay charting the emergence and character of the food movement.
Oil reaches Louisiana…