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Report says that access alone is no solution
Therefore, the goal for food organizations cannot only be to spend the efforts on getting people to the healthy food, but shows the need to engage them more directly and through many types of...
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Resentful? Overworked? Face These Painful Facts about Shared Work. « The...
Seven hard facts about shared work I excerpted this because of the many times that I hear market or food system organizers tell me they don’t have time to teach volunteers or to share work – that...
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Giving Business the Incentive to Promote Healthy Lifestyles
Love the article linked below; it’s an overview of incentives given to business to encourage healthy behaviors. For those of you that have heard my spiel on how the 1970s emergence of the farmers...
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The Agrarian Standard | Wendell Berry
Recently, I was working on a piece for The Nature of Cities blog, and wanted to re-read something that Wendell Berry had said about the agrarian culture; I found the 2002 Orion Magazine essay in which...
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TNOC Roundtable: The sky is the limit for urban agriculture. Or is it?
I am honored to be a member of this roundtable, and to be a new contributor to The Nature of Cities site. This topic is a bit difficult for me as I believe in cities and in their need to expand every...
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The Crunchy Cities Index – Support Farmers Markets
This is an exciting piece on the explosion of farmers markets, but I must confess that based on my own knowledge, I find the data to be less than precise. The USDA list of markets is not checked for...
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In the U.S., a Quick Walk to the Store Is a Rare Thing Indeed
Another report to share with food communities as an indicator of the positive changes we can make if we can embed our initiatives in neighborhoods. “After you pass Seattle, ranked 13th with just 31...
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Harvest of Change
An engaging interactive story on today’s agribusiness sector from the Des Moines Register and USA Today. Amid all the challenges, farmers find lucrative markets shaped by shifting consumer tastes....
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24 Diagrams To Help You Eat Healthier
These infographics should spark some ideas among vendors and among shoppers: 24 Diagrams To Help You Eat Healthier. Tagged: health information, infographics
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NYT writer: seasonality? bah humbug!
A ridiculous and myopic piece from a writer in the NYT this week is attached to this post at bottom. Her argument is that seasonal and local are out of touch and at odds with good eating and for her...
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All Aboard: Food Barge and Hospital Greenhouse
Floating Food Forest Prepares for Debut Voyage in New York That garden is Swale, a food forest that sits atop a 120-by-35-foot barge. All of the food grown on Swale will be free and available to...
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A decade after ‘The Omnivore’s Dilemma,’ Michael Pollan sees signs of hope
This new generation of young farmers is helping to build what amounts to an alternative food economy. That new economy is comprised of farms supplying local markets; farms employing organic and other...
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Against the Soda Tax | Jacobin
One of the most thought-provoking magazines on the newsstand gives an argument this month against soda taxes. The argument made here is both in how regressive taxes have been traditionally been spent...
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“…That everyone will believe they are worth that.”
“It is a ridiculous business model,” Jennifer admits. “But we have pride in doing this accurately. No corners cut.” The women are doing something right. At their last farm dinner, guests were...
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“What Works, and Doesn’t, About Farmers Markets? “
Good article linked at the end on Vermont’s market saturation from someone who has been a vendor at some of these markets. There is no question that the very real concern from vendors must be addressed...
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The Farm-To-Table Movement and Rural Gentrification
Nice article on food-based communities cropping up in rural areas, although I am bit puzzled by the choice of title. In many ways, rural places are in a better position to build an entire system that...
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Designing Better Shopping Experiences
Using a variety of research methods, students with disabilities and conventional students at San Francisco State University studied “how the principles of Inclusive Universal Design practice can...
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27 days…or less
Bloomberg: On average, the companies surveyed have just 27 days worth of cash reserves – or money to cover expenses if inflows suddenly stopped – according to the JPMorgan study, which analyzed 470...
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Health issues topped the list of scientific studies reaching wide audiences...
In general, health-related studies… had more reach on social media and other online platforms than other scientific studies. Seven of the top 11 most-discussed scientific studies for the year focused...
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New streetcar line drives market biz, sez vendor
Barb Cooper and her husband operate a fresh produce and specialty shop called Daisy Mae’s Market at Findlay Market and launched Cincinnati Food Tours in 2012 to introduce visitors to Findlay Market,...
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