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The Great Falls Great Food Community Conversation will host a community supper and its inaugural conversation about food on Friday, July 8, at Our Place Drop In Center, 4 Island The supper will be from 5:30-6:30. There will be food for everyone Please feel free, however, to bring a [...] Dena Bray, of Dena Bray’s Cooking School, says Welcome to my new site: Gathering Flavors,where you will already find great recipes for Blueberry Muffins and a Rhubarb Cake. These baked items are perfect for the season. I would love your [...] Healthy Chickens, Healthy Pastures Playkit by Linda Booth Sweeney and Renata Pomponi Healthy Chickens, Healthy Pastures, is a game to help students think deliberately about living systems in a farm setting and give students a mental framework to take home and apply in other contexts. Through this game, students explore the hidden interconnections and dynamics surrounding [...] May 19, 2011, 3:30 to 5:30 Hartland Public Library Community Room I. Introductions and affiliations Peter Allison – Upper Valley Farm to School Coordinator Debbie Diegoli – White River Junction Transition Town; Vital Communities Pat McGovern- Upper Valley Localvores; Canillas Community Garden (Lebanon). Kye Cochran- Upper Valley Food Coop; Transition Town White River Junction Beth Carlson- Farm to School at Windsor [...] Robert Kremer is a microbiologist with the US Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service and an adjunct professor in the Division of Plant Sciences at the University of Missouri. He is co-author of one of five papers published in the October 2009 issue of The European Journal of Agronomy that found [...] Spring is here, but the presentations by Shannon Hayes and Bill McKibben at the Winter Conference are still fresh and inspiring! If you couldn’t see them in person, or if you want to experience the energy again, you can view the footage here: http://www.youtube.com/user/NOFAVT2?feature=mhum#p/u By HOWARD WEISS-TISMAN/Reformer Staff Monday May 9, 2011 BRATTLEBORO–More than 80 people from three states attended the second annual Farm to School Conference, Thursday, on the World Learning campus in Brattleboro. The conference, which was hosted by the Windham County Farm to School Program of Post Oil Solutions, offered a full day of workshops and seminars to encourage [...] By Lindsey Tanner Chicago (AP) – In a rural health educator’s dream visions for farm country, the flat fertile landscape will be dotted with little black plastic tubes strapped to power poles at each farmstead. The sealed cylinders look fairly innocuous, but the contents inside are like gold for emergency responders – detailed computer-generated maps of each [...] “How much food could New England provide for itself 50 years from now? We currently have 2 million acres in farmland in New England. We could double or triple that to 6 million acres if we recovered some of our best land from forested pine.” That’s how Brian Donahue, a professor [...] |
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Controversial National Leafy Green Marketing Agreement
Blog post from the website of the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)
On Tuesday, April 26, USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) released its proposal for aNational Leafy Green Marketing Agreement (NLGMA). If adopted, the program would be used to govern the production, handling, and manufacturing of leafy green vegetables, including spinach, lettuce, and cabbage, for handlers who sign on and [...]
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