NY TIMES/Will Work For Food

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/12/magazine/12food-t-000.html?_r=3&ref=dining

Improving Food Worker Livelihoods: An Interview with UFWA’s Erik Nicholson/WORLDCHANGING

http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/011454.html

Why Organic?/SEEDS OF CHANGE

http://www.seedsofchange.com/why_organic_video.aspx

Saving Heirloom Tomato Seeds/RARE FORMS

http://www.rareforms.com/gardening/saving-heirloom-tomato-seeds/

Farmers Markets Growing Like Weeds/GRIST

http://www.grist.org/article/food-farmers-markets-growing-like-weeds-around-country/

ROC Launches Policy Platform for California Farm Bill

http://rootsofchange.org/content/view/678/1

Roots of Change takes a huge step forward by launching a history-making policy campaign. The “Green Jobs, Healthy Food, Farms & Communities” Platform seeks to inspire legislators to craft future-focused state policies that ensure a healthy and prosperous food and farm economy in California.

Rooftop Farm on an Affordable Housing Project in Brooklyn

http://digg.com/food_drink/First_Ever_Rooftop_Farm_on_Affordable_Housing_Project?OTC-widget

GRIST/”Is Walmart the Future of Local Food?” by Tom Laskawy

http://www.grist.org/article/is-walmart-the-future-of-local-food/

“One of the most important historic developments in the food economy is embodied in this statistic: in 1900, 40 percent of every dollar spent on food went to the farmer or rancher while the rest was split between inputs and distribution. Now? 7 cents on the dollar goes to the producer and 73 cents goes just to distribution. That’s worth keeping in mind when you read things like this:

… Walmart, now the nation’s largest supermarket chain as well as retailer, has gotten into the local scene, embarking on an effort to procure more of its produce from local growers.

Uh, oh.”

Attention Designers:

Digging Deeper SF

Design Competition for Urban Agriculture Solutions

http://diggingdeepersf.ning.com/

Eat Local (tips from Ideal Bite.com)

• 100 Mile Diet – read other peoples’ stories and tips to get you going.
• LocalHarvest – find local farms and farmers markets.
• Plenty – an inspiring memoir about what happens when two people decide to eat only food produced within a 100-mile radius for an entire year ($17).