http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/12/magazine/12food-t-000.html?_r=3&ref=dining
Archive for the ‘Articles’ Category
NY TIMES/Will Work For Food
09/15/2010Saving Heirloom Tomato Seeds/RARE FORMS
08/06/2010Farmers Markets Growing Like Weeds/GRIST
08/06/2010GRIST/”Is Walmart the Future of Local Food?” by Tom Laskawy
12/13/2009http://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.”
Blogrunner/Urban Agriculture
09/16/2009SF Chronicle/Hoop Houses Extend Urban Farmers’ Growing Season by David Runk
09/15/2009“On the vacant lot in Michigan where her childhood home once stood, Carolyn Meekins grows seedlings for Asian greens, red kale and green beans in a plastic-covered greenhouse known as a hoop house.
The structure warms and protects the tender, young plants, allowing Meekins to plant earlier in the year. She was the first in Flint to build one last year, but more urban farmers like her are using hoop houses to extend the growing season in northern U.S. cities.
Hoop houses are relatively inexpensive to build and often are unheated — relying instead on the sun or heat thrown off by compost heaps. With frames made of metal, flexible PVC pipe or wood, they work like greenhouses but are covered with plastic instead of glass. They can be small enough for a city back yard or 100 feet long.”
WP/You Want Local? by Barbara Damrosch
09/08/2009“You could say 2007 was the year of the “locavore,” a word coined by California food activist Jessica Prentice to describe people who eat food that is locally grown. While the New Oxford American Dictionary was declaring “locavore” the Word of the Year, shoppers were scurrying about in search of onions grown in nearby fields, beef grazed on local pastures, chickens who had come home to roost….”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/16/AR2008011601091.html
the food security project 