Food
- 100 Mile Diet
- ChewsWise by Samuel Fromartz
- Civil Eats
- Eat Local Challenge Blog
- Eat Well Guide
- Eating Alabama
- Edible Nation
- Food Politics by Marion Nestle
- FoodRoutes
- Grist on Food
- Local Harvest
- Locavore Nation
- Michael Pollan
- Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch
- National Center for Home Food Preservation
- Organic Consumer Association
- Pick Your Own (Mobile Area)
- Politics of the Plate by Barry Estabrook
- Slow Food Blog
- Slow Food USA
- Sustainable Table
- Sustainable Table Blog
- The Ethicurean
- U.S. Food Policy Blog
For Gardeners & Growers
- Alabama Cooperative Extension System
- Alabama Farmers Market Authority
- Alabama Sustainable Agriculture Network
- American Farmland Trust
- Deep South Fruit & Vegetable Growers Association
- Kitchen Gardeners International
- Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture
- Mobile Botanical Gardens
- National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service
The Environment
Monthly Archives: May 2008
Fairhope Local Food Production Initiative
A new organization is being formed in Fairhope to address the issue of local food production. The first general public meeting of the Local Food Production Initiative will be held at 6:30 p.m. Monday, June 9 in the first floor auditorium of the Fairhope Public Library in downtown Fairhope. Everyone interested is invited to attend. [...]
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In My Kitchen Garden: Tomatoes
I might have let them ripen a touch longer, but who wouldn’t be eager to harvest the first two tomatoes of the season? The thing you can’t tell, because there’s nothing in the photo for scale, is how small they are…the larger one is about 2.5″ in diameter.
Upcoming Slow Food Gulf Coast Event
WHAT: A Taste of the Gulf Coast in partnership with Culinary Corps WHEN: Wednesday, June 4, 5:30pm – 7:30pm WHERE: Gulf Hills Hotel and Conference Center, Ocean Springs MS COST: -Approximately- $25; cash bar will be provided by the hotel CONTACT: Diane Claughton at 251.633.6944 for more information and tickets WHY: Kick-off and fund raiser [...]
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Making a Green Home
Also from Culinate, a link to “Making a Green Home”:http://teaandcookies.blogspot.com/2008/05/making-green-home.html, focusing on small ways to green your kitchen. I do some of these things already and would like to do others; however, ditching our many plastic storage containers for glass will require an investment and on our limited budget that’s not going to happen right [...]
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Take a Bite Out of Climate Change
A relatively new project and blog (and a beautifully designed web site) from Anna Lappé, Take a Bite Out of Climate Change, addresses issues of agriculture, eating, and sustainability as one means of taking on the challenges of climate change. Lappé is the co-author of Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen, and Hope’s Edge: [...]
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Even Business Week Reconizes the Economic Power of Locavores
Via Culinate, “The Rise of the ‘Locavore’”:http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/may2008/db20080520_920283.htm?chan=search, How the strengthening local food movement in towns across the U.S. is reshaping farms and food retailing. There’s even a mention of my former co-op in Bloomington, IN, “Bloomingfoods”:http://www.bloomingfoods.coop/, though since they’ve been around for 30 years they can hardly be described as an “upstart”!
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Change We Can Stomach
Also via “Edible Nation”:http://www.ediblecommunities.com/ediblenation/, Dan Barber writes “Change We Can Stomach”:http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/11/opinion/11barber.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&sq=dan%20barber&st=nyt&scp=1, an editorial in the New York Times about the relationship between cooking, farming, and the future of agriculture.
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Mulch on the Farm Bill
Via the “Edible Nation”:http://www.ediblecommunities.com/ediblenation/ news feed, a link to “Mulch: Comments on agriculture, farm policy, and food safety”:http://www.mulchblog.com/, written by Ken Cook, president of Environmental Working Group. I think we’re all learning more about the relationship between Congress, big agriculture, farm subsidies, the state of our nation’s food system, and the health of our citizens. [...]
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Grow-Your-Own Veggies a Boon to Seed Companies
A brief piece on NPR this morning about “the relation between hard economic times and vegetable seed sales”:http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90714696. I’m not going to be saving $1500 on my groceries like the woman in the story – she must have a lot of kohlrabi and broccoli! I’d have to do some calculations to come up with an [...]
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Farmers Market Coalition