Farm To Table Talk
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Living Soil for City Living — Doria Robinson, Urban Tilth
Living soil is more than dirt and thriving communities are more than just a city. Urban areas all over are finding that gardens and farms in their midst are bringing healthy food choices, personal growth and renewal of community spirit. Richmond,
Sustaining Us — John Ikerd
Why is it that so many people suspect that American Agriculture has been on the wrong track? And perhaps a more important question is why so many people increasingly believe that change is beginning, pointing American Agriculture and our entire food s...
BioMaximizing — Glenda Humiston, UC-ANR
Biomass is basically every part of plants, what we eat and what we don’t. The more fruits and vegetables that we eat the more BioMass that is left over that can be either a serious problem or a brand new opportunity.
Food’s Broad Tent — Joel Salatin
Whether you farm ideas, dreams, plants or animals we better be prepared. Joel Salatin, the self-referenced lunatic farmer of Polyface farms has prepared thousands of people for their own type of farming and he’s doing it again with another book,
Growing Incomes and Nutrition — Ricardo Salvador, UCS
“Are we willing to pay more for food or just be quiet and accept the fact that we are an exploitive food system?” This is the tough question posed by Ricardo Salvador of the Union of Concerned Scientists on Farm To Table Talk and to an event in ...
Global Change — Prabhu Pingali & Maureen Valentine
Improving food systems is a high priority all over the world. This Farm To Table Talk is about changes that are taking place in India with the help of Cornell University’s Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition.
Generational Tastes — Eve Turow Paul
In times of chaos, Millennials (and others) are spending their time and money on eating really great food and creating uplifting moments, together. People are using food as a way to reconnect with farmers; using food to educate themselves about the the...
Setting the Table — Zoë Carpenter, The Nation
What does the future hold for a favorite essential, Food? Over the years researchers and authors have taken a stab at answering that question. Now the oldest weekly magazine in the nation, appropriately named “The Nation”,
Rethink The Ranch — Kevin Kester, NCBA
Why don’t we say Ranch to Table? Maybe its because people don’t think about ranches much at all and if they do it may be a distortion of the predominantly family owned ranches that produce beef across the USA. Like all segments of Agriculture today,
Food Evolution — Kennedy, Ronald & Dimock
When we talk of change in our food system, is it a “revolution” or “evolution”? Academy Award®-nominated director Scott Hamilton Kennedy (THE GARDEN, FAME HIGH, OT: OUR TOWN) chooses evolution but the conclusions of his film,