-   -   - One of the most unfortunate dilemmas in the food chain is that all over the world, including the US, children are going hungry and yet we waste over 40% of the food we produce.  A comprehensive political solution is not at hand but progr...

  - Restaurants and food stores  succeed when they meet the needs and interests of their customers.  When those customers want local foods, they must oblige and connect with local farms.  Not so easy!  "Hubs" have been created to bridge that Farm ...

  - Farming is changing. Whether your food comes from smaller local farmers, large scale commodity farmers, self grown or imported from the other side of the world, it is inevitable that new ideas will play an important part in the quality and qua...

  -   - There is a massive wave of technology that is sweeping over the food and farming landscape of the world--a virtual tsunami.  The ForbesAg Tech Summit in Salinas has linked global  food/ag leaders and Silicon Valley to mark the prospects and t...

How can we bring Farm to Table value to our communities and to society in a meaningful way? Roza Ferdowsmakan has found a way. She is a farm-to-table advocate who has been working with local farmers and chefs in Phoenix .

More and more of us want to know everything we can about the products we buy--especially when it comes to the food we consume with our friends and families. Whether motivated by worry, mistrust or just curiosity,

Some of us know quite a bit about the coffee beans in our coffee, including the farmers that grew the beans; but what do  meat-lovers really know about the meat on our plates? Joe Heitzeberg a founder of Crowd Cow and co-author of Craft Beef is steppin...

Is there a direct relationship between the roaster of your coffee and the farmers who grow the beans.  It's worth finding out and if the answer is no, it might be time to try a new source of your coffee.  Specialty coffee shops are springing up all ove...

  - Food labels and menu descriptions are just shorthand communications when we buy foods that tell us a story about origin, nutrition and production practices.  Organic is a description that many consumers look for,

  - Our relationship with food doesn't have to be so complicated. Listening to our body, enjoying the "well-grown" foods we love, mindfully connects body, mind and spirit. This is part of the common-sense advice of Heidi Schauster, MS RDN, CEDRD-S,