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Is Sustainable Food "Bourgeois"? No, Not If You Know What It Means

2:39 pm in farmers markets, food, food and health, food policy by TreeHugger

csa shopping image Shopping at the CSA. Image credit Lloyd Alter Llewellyn Hinkes-Jones asks in the Atlantic: "Is it possible for gluttony, purity, and morality to coexist with affordability? Or is this utopian vision a myth?" It's in a post titled The Folly of Bourgeois Sustainable Food, he begins by describing his personal conversion to organic food: ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Supporting Farmers Markets Creates Thousands of Jobs: Union of Concerned Scientists

4:34 pm in Business & Politics, economics, farmers markets, farming, local food by TreeHugger

farmers market photo Image: Chris Schrier via flickr "What's holding farmers markets back?" That's the question behind a new report from the Union of Concerned Scientists, which determined the culprit to be federal policies that favor industrial agriculture over small and local farms. Change those policies, though, and you get a quick turnaround. According to the report, just a little public funding for 100 to 500 farmers markets a year could create up to 13,500 jobs within five years....Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Agritourism Big on Big Island with Farm-to-Table Agventures

6:58 pm in agriculture, farmers markets, farming, Food & Health, local food, tourism, Travel & Nature by TreeHugger

black-sand-beach.jpg Not the oil-soaked Gulf Coast - it's Hawaiian lava black sands. Photo by Steve Cadman via Flickr Salamanders zip by, wild flowers grow along the mountainside and a misty marine layer floats up from the Pacific. Sounds like it could be Hawai'i but it was Will Rogers State Park near Topanga Canyon where I took a hike recently and learned the latest about the Big Island. While climbing to Inspiration Point, I remembered scrambling across moonscapes of volcanic lava rock previously and caught up on the current molten smolder...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Artisan Yogurt Producer Choked Out of Business By Bureaucratic Red Tape

8:00 am in buy local, farmers markets, Food & Health, food safety by TreeHugger

yogurt photo Photo: Mom the Barbarian Just as it seems we may be moving back toward some sort of food culture in a nation plagued by the side effects of big Ag, red tape chokes another small producer out of business. Take the story of artisan yogurt producer Homa Dashtaki, recently written up in The Economist. Dashtaki makes the kind of artfully created yogurt that makes a foodie sing. But while Big Ag ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Free Tomato Give-Away to Get Growing

5:09 am in botanical, Business & Politics, farmers markets, Food & Health, fruit & vegetables, gardens, local food by TreeHugger

britain growing photo Photo: B.Alter The Mayor of London was in Trafalgar Square, giving away free tomato plants. There were 100,000 little seedlings in paper cups, available for the taking by anyone who wandered by. It was all part of Capital Growth, a scheme to get Londoners growing fruits and vegetables. Their aim is to create 2012 new community food growing spaces across London by the end of 2012. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Real Food Festival Delivers the Real Thing from Small Producers

5:06 am in botanical, Business & Politics, farmers markets, food, Food & Health, food miles, food safety, local food, organic agriculture, recipes by TreeHugger

real food photo Photo: B. Alter The Real Food Festival is a chance to meet the small, artisanal producers of some of the food that we love to buy. They are the little guys who are trying to create a revolution in packaged food. They want to use pure, sometimes organic, ingredients but still sell to a larger market. And they are here to meet that public. Their stories are inspirational and all of them include a big serving of hard work to make a buck....Read the full story on TreeHugger

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