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: January 2010
Food in Schools
As the parent of a child who will be entering kindergarten this coming fall, I’m in a position to be newly conscious of the quality of food in schools. Here are several items of interest: At Chews Wise, Sam Fromartz points to the blog of former reporter who spent a week in Washington, D.C. schools [...]
Community Garden on Fairhope City Council Agenda Monday
The Fairhope City Council is scheduled to consider a resolution supporting a community garden at Stimpson Field at the City Council meeting at 6pm this Monday, January 25. At 5:15pm there will be a City Council work session at which the resolution will be discussed and perhaps voted on – or an alternative proposal presented [...]
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Learning More from Winter
Keep reading Bill Finch in the Press Register to learn more about this winter’s cold snap and what it teaches us about our gardens.
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Ever’man Suspends Surcharge Permanently
If you visit Ever’man Natural Foods co-op in Pensacola, you may be aware they tested a suspension of their non-member surcharge at the end of last year. It was deemed successful and they’ve decided to make that permanent. So what that means is that even if you’re not a co-op member you’ll pay the same [...]
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A Thought for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
If you follow any food communities in the blogosphere, you’ve probably been aware of the furor caused by an article in The Atlantic critical of the school garden movement. While I’m not going to delve into the specifics of the controversy, I did think this response to it at Civil Eats, Booker T. Washington on [...]
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How Much Cold Can Your Poor Citrus Stand?
Make plans for future winters in your garden by taking this winter readiness test from Bill Finch. He writes, “There’s no better winter to reassess our citrus growing, and determine which citrus we grow best, and which ones may not be worth the trouble.” Many factors can influence your success with citrus, so read and [...]
FDA on BPA: Our Hands are Tied
Civil Eats passes along this piece from Grist’s Tom Laskawy, which sums up the recently released FDA report on BPA. The good news is that the FDA now admits that BPA—the endocrine-disrupting, heart disease-causing ingredient in plastic food packaging and can linings—isn’t entirely safe (contradicting the agency’s statement from 2008 that it was), particularly for [...]
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Will Your Plants Survive?
If you haven’t been protecting your plants by this point, the horse has long escaped the barn. But if you have, or you haven’t and you’re curious to see what might leaf out again come spring, read Bill Finch’s Winter Survival Guide. PROBABLY WILL MAKE IT: figs, mature satsumas, collards, kale, kohlrabi, garlic IFFY/PLANTS NEED [...]
Raj Patel: The Value of Nothing