Category Archives: sustainable agriculture

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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Meat Eaters Guide to Climate Change and Health

By Ang Jordan | Published: August 28, 2011
From the Environmental Working Group, the people who brought you the Shoppers Guide to Pesticides in Produce, comes the Meat Eaters Guide, a thorough analysis of lifecycle impacts of the various proteins in our diets. You can look through the collection of information and resources on their site – be sure to check out the [...]
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Aquacalypse Now: The End of Fish

By Ang Jordan | Published: October 9, 2009
My brother-in-law sent me this link to a piece in The New Republic by Daniel Pauly, a marine ecologist who questions the current definition of any sustainable fishery, comparing the “management” of fisheries to this point in history to a Madoff-like Ponzi scheme. He writes, “eating a tuna roll at a sushi restaurant should be [...]
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The 2008 Farm Bill: Pollan, Eschmeyer on a bittersweet victory

By Ang Jordan | Published: June 15, 2008
At “The Ethicurean”:http://www.ethicurean.com/, some perspective on the finally-passed “2008 Farm Bill”:http://www.ethicurean.com/2008/06/04/pollan-farm-bill-2/. Michael Pollan seems embittered, Debra Eschmeyer stays optimistic and reviews the positive aspects of the bill, and a well-informed commenter provides some additional insight.
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Change We Can Stomach

By Ang Jordan | Published: May 22, 2008
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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Sweet Home Farm

By Ang Jordan | Published: March 3, 2008
“Sweet Home Farm”:http://www.southerncheese.com/Pages/sweethome.html 27107 Schoen Rd Elberta AL 36530 251.986.5663 PRODUCTS A variety of natural farmstead raw cows’ milk cheeses. Other products (such as vegetables) are sold on a seasonal basis, and availability is limited. WHERE TO BUY Sweet Home Farm cheeses are sold only at the store on the farm, located in south-east Baldwin [...]
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Michael Pollan: In Defense of Food

By Ang Jordan | Published: February 21, 2008
Michael Pollan’s latest book, ??In Defense of Food??, and it’s accompanying mantra “Eat Food. Not too Much. Mostly Plants” is all over the media these days, thanks to the success of his previous book ??The Omnivore’s Dilemma??. NPR has a “succinct overview of the book’s principles”:http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17725932, along with an excerpt from the book and an [...]
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Sustainability Survey Results

By Ang Jordan | Published: December 11, 2007
“The Splendid Table”:http://splendidtable.publicradio.org/ has posted the results of their survey on “Preferences for Making Sustainable Food Choices”:http://splendidtable.publicradio.org/about/sustainability_results.shtml. Over 15,000 people completed the survey, the first of its kind.
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Deep South Fruit and Vegetable Growers Conference, Day 2

By Ang Jordan | Published: December 6, 2007
Today I attended a few sessions from the “Organic Production” track. I actually was interested in the ones on organic certification, but I skipped those because it’s not exactly immediately relevant to my efforts as a home gardener. As most people already know, there is a lot of controversy around organic standards (many feel that [...]
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Deep South Fruit and Vegetable Growers Conference, Day 1

By Ang Jordan | Published: December 5, 2007
After talking with Diane Claughton, coordinator of the Slow Food Gulf Coast chapter and owner of the Ocean Springs Fresh Market, I decided to attend the Deep South Fruit and Vegetable Growers Conference on her suggestion. If nothing else, I figured it would educate me on local issues and interests, and give me a chance [...]
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