Category Archives: web sites

Mulch on the Farm Bill

By Ang Jordan | Published: May 22, 2008
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. [...]
Posted in web sites | Leave a comment

Reviews on LocalHarvest

By Ang Jordan | Published: April 26, 2008
“LocalHarvest”:http://www.localharvest.org/, the directory of farms, markets, and CSAs, has added a new feature to their web site: member reviews. You do have to register with the site (if you’re not already), and then you can share your opinions.
Posted in web sites | Leave a comment

The Great Sunflower Project

By Ang Jordan | Published: April 15, 2008
Via “EatLocalChallenge”:http://www.eatlocalchallenge.com/2008/04/the-great-sunfl.html, sign up for “The Great Sunflower Project”:http://www.GreatSunflower.org/, an effort to monitor the health of bee populations. They’ll send you free sunflower seeds to plant and then ask you to monitor the flowers for bees. Visit the web site for more information and to sign up. We’re in the unusual situation of having a [...]
Also posted in environmental issues | 1 Comment

Eating Alabama

By Ang Jordan | Published: April 15, 2008
I’m happy to be able to point you to “Eating Alabama”:http://www.eatingalabama.org/, a blog chronicling the efforts of two families in the Tuscaloosa-Birmingham area to eat locally, as in within-the-state, during the months of April through July. They’ve already compiled a collection of interesting posts and some good resources. Check out their “map of small Alabama [...]
Also posted in eating locally | Leave a comment

50 Simple Things

By Ang Jordan | Published: April 15, 2008
Earth Day is coming up in a week (Tuesday the 22nd), so in addition to updating the blog with recent articles, I’ll be highlighting environmental issues related to local foods. With that in mind, I’d like to point out the newly reissued “50 Simple Things You Can Do To Save the Earth”:http://www.amazon.com/Simple-Things-You-Save-Earth/dp/1401322999/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208235905&sr=8-1. Environmentalists may remember [...]
Also posted in books, environmental issues | Leave a comment

KidSafe Seafood

By Ang Jordan | Published: April 1, 2008
Via “Mothering Magazine”:http://www.mothering.com/articles/growing_child/food/fish-facts-for-families.html, “KidSafe Seafood”:http://www.kidsafeseafood.org/, an informational web site about kids and seafood consumption; they have a “handy chart”:http://www.kidsafeseafood.org/bestchoices_otherkindsoffish.php identifying key toxins found in a variety of commonly eaten fish and shellfish, and the number of servings children of different ages may safely eat each month. Farmed crawfish are listed as one of the approved [...]
Also posted in health issues, seafood | Leave a comment

The Food Chain

By Ang Jordan | Published: March 11, 2008
The “Slow Food Blog”:http://www.slowfoodblog.org/?p=192 points to “The Food Chain”:http://www.metrofarm.com/mf_Food_Chain_Radio.php, bq. an audience-interactive newstalk radio program that airs live on Saturdays from 9am to 10am Pacific time. The Food Chain, which has been named the Ag/News Show of the Year by California’s legislature, is hosted by Michael Olson, author of the Ben Franklin Book of the [...]
Also posted in eating locally | Leave a comment

Culinate

By Ang Jordan | Published: March 3, 2008
A friend passed me a link to “Culinate”:http://www.culinate.com/, a web site that’s “an ongoing conversation about how to eat well.” The authors define their name as follows: bq. *cul·in·ate* (‘kələ-nāt), v. 1 to live better by eating better 2 to consider health, the environment and community when deciding what to eat 3 to integrate and [...]
Posted in web sites | Leave a comment

Kitchen Gardens

By Ang Jordan | Published: February 25, 2008
From the Slow Food Blog, a brief “article on kitchen gardens”:http://www.slowfoodblog.org/?p=183, and a link to “Kitchen Gardeners International”:http://www.kitchengardeners.org/, which I’ll add to the External Links. bq. According to USDA statistics, today we buy more than 99 percent of the food we eat, and the percentage of home-grown food continues to decline. And yet backyard gardens [...]
Also posted in articles, gardening | Leave a comment

Locavore Nation

By Ang Jordan | Published: February 12, 2008
I added “Locavore Nation”:http://splendidtable.publicradio.org/locavore_nation/ to the External Links. It’s the Splendid Table’s blog that came out of their “Sustainability Survey”:http://splendidtable.publicradio.org/about/sustainability_results.shtml, and follows the efforts of 15 people around the country to eat locally for a year. The closest participant is in Ashland, MS, about 300 miles from Mobile. “The Splendid Table”:http://splendidtable.publicradio.org/, a wonderful public radio [...]
Also posted in eating locally | Leave a comment