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Wendell Berry to Speak in Birmingham on February 27

By Ang Jordan | Published: February 6, 2012
WHAT: Wendell Berry WHEN: Monday, February 27 at 7pm WHERE: Leslie S Wright Fine Arts Center, Samford University, Birmingham COST: General admission tickets are $25 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Wendell Berry will appear as part of the Tom and Marla Corts Distinguished Author Series. A book signing will follow. Berry is a philosopher, farmer, environmentalist, social activist, [...]
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Monsanto petition at SignOn.org

By Ang Jordan | Published: February 5, 2012
Momentum is building around an internet protest of a two year old Obama administration appointment. In 2009, Michael Taylor, former vice president for Monsanto, was appointed senior advisor for the FDA. In that position, he oversees food labeling, food safety, and the planning of new food safety legislation. No doubt one reason why protesters are [...]
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Georgia Organics Conference

By Ang Jordan | Published: February 4, 2012
WHAT: Georgia Organics Conference WHEN: February 24-25, 2012 WHERE: Columbus, Georgia COST: varies depending on sessions attended and ASAN membership status MORE INFORMATION: The Alabama Sustainable Agriculture Network is jointly sponsoring this year’s Georgia Organics conference. From the ASAN web site: If you’ve ever attended a Georgia Organics conference, you’ll know to expect really useful [...]
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Local Foods: Potential to Build Wealth & Health in Alabama

By Ang Jordan | Published: February 3, 2012
WHAT: Local Foods: Potential to Build Wealth & Health in Alabama, a presentation by Ken Meter WHEN: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at 10am WHERE: Auditorium at Alabama Department of Agriculture and Industries, 1445 Federal Drive, Montgomery, AL 36107 RSVP: charlenthia.canidate@agi.alabama.gov / 334.240.7100 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: This year the Food Bank of North Alabama engaged national food [...]
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Shiitake Mushroom Workshop at Middle Earth

By Ang Jordan | Published: February 3, 2012
WHAT: Shiitake Mushroom Workshop WHEN: Saturday February 11, 9:30am to 3:30pm WHERE: Middle Earth Healing and Learning Center, 20205 Middle Earth Road, Citronelle, AL 36522 COST: $35.00 per person CONTACT: 251.866.7204 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: This workshop is hands-on! You will experience drilling the oak logs, injecting the shiitake mycelium, sealing with wax….AND take a log home! [...]
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Tree Planting at Clark-Shaw Magnet School for Math and Science

By Ang Jordan | Published: February 2, 2012
WHAT: Tree Planting at Clark-Shaw Magnet School for Math and Science WHEN: Saturday, February 11, 8:30am – 12pm WHERE: Clark-Shaw Magnet School for Math and Science, 5960 Arlberg St, Mobile TO VOLUNTEER: Contact Elisa Baldwin at ebaldwin@jaguar1.usouthal.edu, or just show up! ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: In celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Alabama Master Gardener Program [...]
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Another Reason to Avoid Farmed Salmon

By Ang Jordan | Published: February 1, 2012
NPR’s The Salt blogs on a new report by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists that the overfishing of jack mackerel (which is used to feed farmed salmon) in the south Pacific is depleting populations at an unsustainable rate. “At the current rate of overfishing, the world’s stock of jack mackerel, which is largely located [...]
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Monthly Menu Planning

By Ang Jordan | Published: January 31, 2012
The latest Local Harvest newsletter contained a post about the benefits of monthly meal planning, a technique which coincidentally we just began implementing last month. Previously we’ve been fairly good about weekly meal planning, but doing it by the month simplifies everything by another degree. One of my goals, in addition to having a meal [...]
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Eating Alabama: The Film

By Ang Jordan | Published: January 30, 2012
Eating Alabama began as a blog and film project to document the efforts of two couples in the Tuscaloosa-Birmingham area to eat food produced entirely within the state. It started as a six month endeavor and stretched into a year, and continued to affect their lives and eating habits afterwards. Now it’s a full-length film [...]
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On Starting Seeds

By Ang Jordan | Published: January 18, 2012
I noticed this blog post over at Kitchen Gardeners International about economizing on starting seeds. Anyone who’s been gardening for a while has no doubt considered starting their own transplants from seed, and it is certainly IS a seductive notion when all those seed catalogs show up in the mailbox midwinter. Years ago when we [...]
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