The Western News | Libby couple grow hobby garden into small-scale farm The Western News The farm also counts as regular customers three local restaurants — The Black Board Bistro, River Bend Restaurant and the Gracious Table — and four others have expressed interest. Every Monday each receives an email newsletter outlining what's ... |
One of the last green patches in Mexico City, Xochimilco is home to a dwindling number of chinampas, historic and man-made agricultural plots built atop ...
Community supported agriculture (CSA) is gaining momentum; Sky Island Farm and Harbor Roots are two farms that are leading the way for CSAs in Grays ...
East Boston Neighborhood Health Center's Let's Get Movin' Program Kicks Off Community-Supported Agriculture ... East Boston Times-Free Press The East Boston Neighborhood Health Center's (EBNHC) Let's Get Movin' program is teaming up with local farms again this year to bring the Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA) program to Eastie. At last week's Eagle Hill Civic Association (EHCA ... |
Culinary Backstreets | Xochimilco: Keeping Mexico City's Agricultural Treasure Afloat Culinary Backstreets The chinampas, made by building up layers of mud from the lake bottom and other organic matter, were built to maximize the arable land for agricultural production. The food ... By working with top restaurants around Mexico City and connecting them to ... |
Culinary Backstreets | Xochimilco: Keeping Mexico City's Agricultural Treasure Afloat Culinary Backstreets That's cheap compared to CSA shares in the United States, but a significant premium compared to prices at Mexico City markets. Murad says there are plenty of consumers willing to pay more for organic, locally-sourced produce, and that they work to keep ... |
The Nation. | Can Farming Save Puerto Rico's Future? The Nation. In 2010, a brigade of 18 farmers had helped her cut trees, open roads, build a cistern, and start to plant a nursery for her new farm, Bosque Jardín Pachamama, on 13 acres of land in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. Five years earlier, Garcia had been living in ... |
Civil Eats | The Movement to Turn Church Land into Farmland Civil Eats A year later, the lot has been transformed into a diversified vegetable farm, providing crops like lettuce, heirloom tomatoes, herbs, and eggplant to Whole Foods, several local restaurants, and a 30-member community supported agriculture (CSA) program ... |
Last summer, young farmer Moses Kashem broke ground on a neglected half-acre of land owned by St. Simon's Episcopal Church in Miami, Florida. A year later ...
As climate change alters how and where food is grown, Puerto Rico's agroecology brigades serve as a model for sustainable farming.
GoErie.com | Erie-area food lovers drawn to regional farms GoErie.com It's called "community supported agriculture," an awkward phrase usually shortened to "CSA." ... "It's nice local produce and you're actually able to work it off through volunteer hours that makes it free and really good for the budget," said Brian ... |
The Recorder | Strawberry season has begun: Local farms release schedules for pick-your-own operations The Recorder Warner Farm's new 1½-acre Greenfield strawberry field, located just across the road from where a popular Hatch's Patch attracted pickers in the 1980s and '90s, is operated by Sunderland's Warner Farm, which is also moving its you-pick operation from ... |
PRI | Energy and food together: Under solar panels, crops thrive PRI Similarly, agriculture faculty members at the Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek in Croatia grow shade-happy organic vegetables beneath solar canopies on a local farm operated partly by faculty members. The energy generated goes to power the ... and more » |
FreshPlaza | GrubMarket acquires So Cal Farm Network FreshPlaza San Francisco-based GrubMarket offers a variety of organic and locally-sourced produce and grocery items up to 50% off prices of conventional grocers, according to the company website. Armed with a mission to “make fresh and healthy food accessible to ... |
Online grocery *service* GrubMarket has acquired So Cal Farm Network, a purchaser and provider of farmer-identified seasonal produce from Vernon, California.
Spring has sprung and Coloradans are coming out of their winter slumber, looking for local products. The Colorado Department of Agriculture's 34th annual ...
Greene County Daily World | Local farmer plants seeds to grow community connection Greene County Daily World Glory Hill's CSA program allows members in Greene County to purchase yearly shares or half-shares of the farm's yield, paying approximately $15 a week for deliveries of fresh, ultra-organic produce each week for 16 weeks. Glory Hill Farms accepts SNAP ... |
Greene County Daily World | Local farmer plants seeds to grow community connection Greene County Daily World Glory Hill's CSA program allows members in Greene County to purchase yearly shares or half-shares of the farm's yield, paying approximately $15 a week for deliveries of fresh, ultra-organic produce each week for 16 weeks. Glory Hill Farms accepts SNAP ... |
Madison.com | Buy Local, Buy Wisconsin grants given to 6 food companies, programs Madison.com FairShare CSA Coalition, a Madison-based coalition of 50 small, organic family farms. The grant will be used to equip growers with online marketing tools and templates to increase CSA (community supported agriculture) share sales in Wisconsin ... |
Madison.com | Buy Local, Buy Wisconsin grants given to 6 food companies, programs Madison.com The Buy Local, Buy Wisconsin grants are from the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection, and have been awarded every year since 2008. "The grants support the diverse sectors of Wisconsin agriculture," said Kietra Olson ... |
