The Recorder | Between the Rows: Farmstands, farmers markets support health of residents, economy The Recorder This year, 265 farms and landscape/garden centers, 64 restaurants, 43 retailers, 24 institutions and 16 specialty producers joined together to raise awareness and sales of locally grown farm products. The organization also works with 10 local farms to ... |
Newnan Times-Herald | Local farmers take agricultural expertise to prestigious Italian conference Newnan Times-Herald The Cunninghams also teach local residents about the Slow Food Movement through a variety of classes on the farm, such as planting crops, organic gardening methods and preserving produce. They also provide recipes on how to prepare meals with fresh ... |
Western Producer | Organic gardener cuts out the middleman Western Producer Steel Pony Farm operates under the community supported agriculture (CSA) model, which allows members access to locally produced food. People invest directly in the farming project in exchange for regularly delivered, locally grown food. Payment is up ... |
Northwest Georgia News | Calhoun farm participates in Atlanta Farmers' Market Northwest Georgia News While Rise 'N Shine does not participate in Rome's farmers markets, much of the local communities are becoming more aware of the owners and the local organic farm. Besides the CSA deliveries, one main way Rise 'N Shine markets their produce is through ... |
Buffalo Rising | Tour de Farms Celebrates 10 Years Buffalo Rising It's all well and good to read about WNY's robust farm-t0-table scene… it's another to experience the farms first hand. Each year, GObike Buffalo organizes a bike tour that takes people around to visit a number of inspirational urban farms, as well as ... |
Civil Eats | Renewing a Vision for Rural Prosperity Civil Eats In 1978, Wendell Berry (Mary's father and Debbie's mentor and friend) sounded the alarm about what was happening in farm communities all around the country. Unfortunately, the state of agriculture is even worse today. ... The reality is that while some ... |
Mary Berry, Wendell Berry's daughter, and food policy advocate Debbie Barker show how the Burley Tobacco Growers Co-operative offers a model for ...
Mary Berry, Wendell Berry's daughter, and food policy advocate Debbie Barker show how the Burley Tobacco Growers Co-operative offers a model for ...
As *fresh* food becomes more accessible, CSA farms must evolve or risk closing. The answers? Farmer collaboration and customer flexibility.
Once a week, at Rome coffee shop Swift & Finch, boxes are lined up against walls and on shelves for pickup. The boxes are full of vegetables and fruits planted.
Mary Berry, Wendell Berry's daughter, and food policy advocate Debbie Barker show how the Burley Tobacco Growers Co-operative offers a model for ...
Farm and Fork Society of Millburn Starts New Pick-Up Location TAPinto.net Local residents can purchase organic vegetable shares from Circle Brook Farm in Andover, NJ, organic/eco-farmed fruit shares from Breezy Hill Orchard in Staasburg, NY and free-range, anti-biotic free eggs from Knoll Krest Farm. The produce will be ... |
Farm and Fork Society of Millburn Starts New Pick-Up Location TAPinto.net Local residents can purchase organic vegetable shares from Circle Brook Farm in Andover, NJ, organic/eco-farmed fruit shares from Breezy Hill Orchard in Staasburg, NY and free-range, anti-biotic free eggs from Knoll Krest Farm. The produce will be ... |
CBC.ca | Pay-to-grow produce program a win for Alberta farmers, consumers CBC.ca Sparrow has been growing food on his 70-acre farm, 60 kilometres north of Edmonton, since 2000, and has been certified organic for 15 years. ... Supporting a local producer also makes economical and environmental sense, said Scholtz. "It's easy, it's ... |
Organic farmer Graham Sparrow loads his van with freshly picked strawberries, carrots, leeks and kale. It's Tuesday — delivery day — and Sparrow's produce is ...
Organic farmer Graham Sparrow loads his van with freshly picked strawberries, carrots, leeks and kale. It's Tuesday — delivery day — and Sparrow's produce is ...
Arizona State University | Arizona, Italy connection via study abroad cultivates possibility for ASU students Arizona State University As a result of discussions sparked at Dinner 2040 — a meal-tasting-turned-panel-talk in Phoenix — between a local organic farmer, an ASU professor and a former project coordinator in the School of Sustainability, five students added a comparative ... |
Durham Herald Sun | Orange County LocalFest to support Breeze Farm incubator | The ... Durham Herald Sun The Orange County LocalFest at Blackwood Farm Park will bring together local arts, music, food and fun to raise money for the Breeze Farm incubator, which ... and more » |
News & Observer | Growing local farmers: New festival to support NC State's Breeze Farm incubator News & Observer Breeze Farm has helped over 40 farmers get started since 2008, either by providing land and tools or annual workshops. It isn't certified organic, but it doesn't allow pesticides or herbicides and requires fertilizers to meet Organic Materials Review ... |
U.S. News & World Report | Longview Farm Part of Larger Effort Toward Food Equality U.S. News & World Report With interest in shopping local and organic on the rise, Watershed is one of many locations shoppers can turn to for fresh produce. Willow Grove Gardens in Longview also has a CSA program and the Wahkiakum Food and Farm Network includes 16 farms ... |
