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Small-Scale Farmers Are Key To Economy
“…the report cites key studies, which show a positive relationship between agriculture and poverty reduction. For instance, one study has shown that for every 10 per cent increase in farm yields, there...
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Australian Food Sovereignty
Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance (AFSA) is a growing national voice representing the community at large. AFSA emerged with the Peoples Food Plan as a response to the Governments National Food Plan,...
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Dallas and Durham: why are markets and farmers a threat?
An excellent piece on cities that are unsure of how to handle the explosion in the number of farmers markets, and by extension, small-scaled agriculture within city limits. There may be some...
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Can Public Health Unite the Good Food Movement? | Civil Eats
Although this is a vital article on the breadth of the problems and issues that face the fight for the farm bill, I hesitate to wrap the entire alternative food and farming movement inside of a crisis,...
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Rules are varied
I think most if not all managers of markets understand that other markets have different rules than theirs, but do your shoppers know? And have you ever updated them, in cooperation with your vendors?...
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Under the heading: Things I bet your market has not dealt with yet
Baboon ambushes woman at Cape Town farmers’ market The baboon sat and waited patiently for an easy target leaving a farmers’ market in Cape Town, South Africa. He then made his move, and boldly strode...
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How Should Local Food Get From Farm to Plate? | Health on GOOD
I did my best to advocate for the entire community food system in the comments. How Should Local Food Get From Farm to Plate? | Health on GOOD.
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Getting milk to market requires a village- an Afghanistan village
“It’s a small thing, in light of Afghanistan’s many ailments. But what makes this dairy shop truly remarkable is that it is part of an operation that comprises all elements of Afghan...
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How to bring farmers markets to the urban poor – The Washington Post
I appreciate that this was written from a vendor point of view, since there’s not enough of that out there. Moreover, I think we need a national awareness campaign about how markets organize themselves...
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Nashville’s beloved farmers market faces some tough rows to hoe | City Limits...
This article is from the beginning of the year: “The idea of bringing in a private company to run the operation comes less than a year after a review from Metro’s finance department that was critical...
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World’s first Bitcoin ATM goes live in Vancouver next week – Business – CBC News
The food system world needs to pay more attention to these digital currencies, like bitcoin. The time and effort it is taking to figure out which emerging technologies and systems of reimbursement and...
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Make room for all of it.
Orion Magazine published a piece in this month’s issue by author Rowan Jacobsen that extols the virtues of the emerging food hub as the next welcome part of our movement. Much of what is in this piece...
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A Grocery Store That Takes ‘Local Food’ to Its Logical Extreme – Bonnie Tsui...
YES. I think this “less waste and more uses” of local food is exactly what it will take for a small store to re-imagine itself as a source of healthy food. To simply move itself into local sourcing...
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Article 89 outlines Boston’s zoning changes for food
Article 89 of the zoning code will create clarity and predictability for anyone interested in growing commercial food and creating farms in Boston. The development of Article 89 was made possible...
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Better Eats for All | Belt Magazine | Dispatches From The Rust Belt
A commentary from yours truly on the food system found in my first hometown of Cleveland Ohio. Whenever I return to it, I am struck by the unusual underpinnings of their food work, being as it is...
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Economic Opportunity Is Lowest In the Republican Bible Belt, Major Study...
I suspected as much, based on the struggle that our community food systems here still have in front of them to reach any decent economic plateau. And, of course, this is another easy way to track where...
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Growing for Market
The link to the excellent Growing For Markets site. In the January 2014 issue, I have an article where I share the latest news on SNAP at farmers markets. GFM is a great magazine for news and tips for...
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Class gap: Obesity declines in well-off kids, but climbs in the poor
In 2009 to 2010, 26 percent, or roughly 1 in 4 kids whose parents have at most a high school education, were obese, compared to 7 percent, or roughly 1 in 14, kids whose parents have at least a...
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Report shows that direct farm sales increase local economies in many regions
(talk about needing more research like this!) Using county-level data from the 2002 and 2007 U.S. Census of Agriculture, the team analyzed the link between direct farm sales — sales made directly from...
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