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Checkout Line: Farmers market etiquette How to ask hard questions of the people who grow your food	Lou Bendrick	23 Jul 2008	Gristmill
In Checkout Line, Lou Bendrick cooks up answers to reader questions about how to green their food choices and other diet-related quandaries. Lettuce know what food worries keep you up at night. What to do when it's not so spelled out for you? Photo: Jennifer Dickert Dear Checkout Line, Any suggestions on how to ask local farmers (or the person selling the goods at the farmers' market who might not be the actual grower) if the produce was treated with Sev ...
Topics: advice, Checkout Line, farmers markets, food, local food, organic food (all these topics)

Dispatches from the Fields: The risks of farming for 'non-farmers' No government disaster assistance for alternative farmers in Iowa	Ariane Lotti	22 Jul 2008	Gristmill
In 'Dispatches from the Fields,' Ariane Lotti and Stephanie Ogburn, who are working on small farms in Iowa and Colorado this season, share their thoughts on producing real food in the midst of America's agro-industrial landscape. ----- Now that Iowa has started to dry out from record flooding, farmers are looking to their fields and feeling the uncertainty of this year's crop. For conventional commodity crop farmers, that feeling is fleeting; they can breathe a sigh ...
Topics: agriculture, CSAs, food, Iowa, severe weather (all these topics)

ANWR of the heartland, revisited WaPo's misguided call to scale back the Conservation Reserve Program	Tom Philpott	21 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Back in April, it already seemed obvious: Spooked by skyrocketing prices for corn, soy, and wheat, policymakers would push to put as much land as possible in the Midwest under the plow, environmental consequences be damned. One of the first policy levers, I figured, would involve gutting the Conservation Reserve Program. The CRP is a federal scheme that pays farmers to take ecologically fragile land out of production -- an act which benefits society but would otherwis ...
Topics: ag policy, Department of Agriculture, agriculture, food, biofuels (all these topics)

Rot and Sold On storing produce	Umbra Fisk	21 Jul 2008	Ask Umbra
Hi Umbra, Quick question: What is the best way to store vegetables in the refrigerator? I have a small crisper drawer and lots of vegetables from the CSA box. I don't want to use plastic bags but unfortunately they work well. Any suggestions? Thanks! Kati N. Washington, D.C. Dearest Kati, Did you say CSA box? You mean, you subscribed to a Community Supported Agriculture farm and are receiving weekly boxes of delicious, fresh, local vege ...
Topics: advice, agriculture, Ask Umbra, food, green living (all these topics)

Uganda Drink That? Ugandan coffee endangered by climate change		17 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 3:52 PM on 17 Jul 2008 Uganda's coffee industry could be basically kaput in 30 years, according to a new Oxfam report. Uganda is Africa's second-largest coffee exporter after Ethiopia, but the report direly predicts that if "average global temperatures rise by two degrees or more, then most of Uganda is likely to cease to be suitable for coffee." In the last two decades, inconsistent weather has reduced crop yiel ...
Topics: agriculture, climate, climate change impacts, food, news, severe weather, Uganda (all these topics)

Carrots, sticks, and crumbs The farm bill is over, so what happens next?	Aimee Witteman	17 Jul 2008	Gristmill
In a stuffy room on Capitol Hill last week, I joined a couple dozen activists and farmers to discuss the farm bill. Why would we bother to meet in hot-as-an-oven Washington D.C. to discuss the legislative mess that recently sputtered to an all too drawn-out end? While the ink is barely dry on the new farm legislation, the campaign for the 2012 Farm and Food Bill has already begun. The group of grassroots advocates met in D.C. last week to wipe the sweat from th ...
Topics: agriculture, food, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Confronting Your Inner Carnivore If you're going to eat meat, you can't shy away from the whole beast	Roz Cummins	17 Jul 2008	'Tis the Season
Ready to meat its maker. A few months ago, I decided to force myself to confront issues surrounding meat-eating head on -- so to speak -- by attending a hog-butchering class. Taught by Boston chef Jamie Bissonnette of KO Prime and offered through the Chefs Collaborative, the class focused on utilizing the whole animal, from head to tail. As usual, I was beset by the ...
Topics: food, green living, recipes, Tis the Season (all these topics)

Have you smelled the little piggies? In eastern North Carolina, citizens and students rise up for environmental justice	Guest author	17 Jul 2008	Gristmill
This is a guest post by David Hamilton and Jordan Treakle. David is an organizer with the Real Food Challenge, and a founding member of FLO (Fair, Local, Organic) Food at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Treakle, a UNC student, is also a member of FLO Food. Last month, about 150 people converged on Raleigh for the pinnacle of a 51-hour hog vigil. Busloads full of children and old-timers from Halifax, Duplin, Sampson, and Bladen counties, where the sten ...
Topics: agriculture, air pollution, environmental justice, food, North Carolina, toxics, waste (all these topics)

A whole new kind of local Urban homesteading in Washington, D.C.	Meredith Niles	16 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Today's slow yet steady movement towards sustainable foods has a decidedly urban feel to it. This morning, sitting at my backyard patio table and drinking my morning coffee, I looked appreciatively out into my backyard and took a satisfying breath. The highway behind my house roared with the morning rush hour traffic, the high rise apartments across the street were bustling with people hurrying off to school and work, and I was sitting in my own piece of urban heave ...
Topics: food, gardening, local food, placemaking, Washington DC (all these topics)

Free from the tree Urban fruit: An untapped resource	Erik Hoffner	16 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Photo: Fallen Fruit. Here's a great local food/art initiative, Fallen Fruit, a map project of neighborhoods where one can collect unwanted fruit in Los Angeles. Humans should be making use of these urban apples, avocados, pomegranates, etc. as much as possible, not raking them up into a garbage bag or compost pile. The folks at LocalEcology have started one for Berkeley, and folks with the Portland Fruit Tree Project collect fruit that grows on neighborhoo ...
Topics: food, local food, Los Angeles (all these topics)

Bam! Planet Green is cookin' tonight Catch the premiere of Emeril Green	Sarah van Schagen	15 Jul 2008	Gristmill
As previously reported (and punned) TV chef Emeril Lagasse is kicking it up a notch with a new cooking show on Planet Green that addresses viewers' kitchen-related dilemmas. Catch the premiere of Emeril Green -- which may or may not actually be very green (this brief convo with participants suggests a hit-and-miss) -- tonight at 8 p.m.Here's a short preview:
Topics: celebrity, food, green living, TV, video (all these topics)

Beyond-Organic Buzz As summer heats up, a tasting of six 'natural' white wines	Tom Philpott	15 Jul 2008	The Bottom Line
As summer heats up, a tasting of six "natural" white wines By Tom Philpott 15 Jul 2008 When it comes to white wine, the nose knows. Photo: Tyler Bell When the summer sun rages, there are few antidotes more pleasing than a light dinner and a glass of chilled white wine. Of course, as summers get hotter, it gets more difficult to enjoy that indulgence without thinking about climate change and other ecological degradation. And that leads to a natural question: Wher ...
Topics: advice, agriculture, food, green living, green products, The Bottom Line (all these topics)

Dispatches from the Fields: The 'far' in farmers markets For some farmers, distant markets offer the best prices	Stephanie Paige Ogburn	14 Jul 2008	Gristmill
In 'Dispatches from the Fields,' Ariane Lotti and Stephanie Ogburn, who are working on small farms in Iowa and Colorado this season, share their thoughts on producing real food in the midst of America's agro-industrial landscape. I don't know how many different farmers markets readers have the opportunity to attend within one area. As a consumer, it seems reasonable to pick one and stick with it. But as a farmer, it's a good idea to sell at multiple markets; ...
Topics: agriculture, Colorado, economy, farmers markets, food, organic food (all these topics)

When Demand Rises in Deforest, Does It Make a Sound? Demand for food, wood, biofuels driving tropical deforestation, report says		14 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 7:21 AM on 14 Jul 2008 Demand for food, wood, and biofuels will likely contribute to massive deforestation in developing countries around the world by 2030, according to a new report. The Rights and Resources Initiative estimates that if current agricultural land productivity doesn't increase substantially, by 2030 about 1.2 billion additional acres of land ...
Topics: agriculture, deforestation, food, news (all these topics)

Too much of a good thing The toll of agriculture and hundred-year rains on Wisconsin's farmland	Jim Goodman	11 Jul 2008	Gristmill
We are, for better or worse, part of the land we live on. We can choose to extract as much as possible from the earth around us, the 'Manifest Destiny' (or nature's in my way) line of thinking. Or we can take as little as necessary and leave as small a trace as possible, the 'Seventh Generation' concept of the Native American peoples. If farming well were easy and profitable, everyone would be doing it. Farming is never easy, no matter how you go about it, but at ...
Topics: agriculture, food, organic food, severe weather, sustainable ag, Wisconsin (all these topics)

The new film Wall-E gets it right The link between obesity and the environment	Maywa Montenegro	11 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Slate's Dan Engber has attempted to take down Wall-E in classic Green Room style with a piece slamming the film's connection between obesity and environmental destruction. Engber's critique is flawed in so many ways that it's hard to know where to begin ... For instance, he doesn't seem to believe that obesity really has much to do with being too sedentary or eating too much. To support this, he cites research saying that 80 percent of the variation in body weight ...
Topics: climate, food, green living, health, movies (all these topics)

Fumigant and Far Between EPA cracks down on the pesticides on your peppers		11 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 12:35 PM on 11 Jul 2008 The U.S. EPA plans to tighten restrictions on five nasty soil fumigants that keep pests away from strawberries, tomatoes, potatoes, carrots, and peppers. The proposed mitigation measures include buffer zones, warning signs, air-quality monitoring, management and outreach plans, emergency-response training, and provision of breathing masks for farmworkers. The rules would apply to five sca ...
Topics: agriculture, food, news, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Wal-Mart Comes to the Farmers Market As the ground shifts under their feet, food giants experiment with new strategies	Tom Philpott	11 Jul 2008	Victual Reality
When you smile, the food world smiles with you ... maybe. Photo: Original by heatkernel For more than a generation, the major corporations that process and sell the vast bulk of our food have had it pretty easy. They've had access to cheap energy to ship food over globe-spanning distances and run giant food-processing plants; reveled in cheap inpu ...
Topics: agriculture, business, food, green living, industrial ag, shopping, Walmart (all these topics)

Just Like Granny Used to Make Simple cooking can produce delicious results -- like old-fashioned Austrian pancakes	Kurt Michael Friese	10 Jul 2008	Chef's Diary
Get cooking, sonny. Too many people in this country have been sold a bill of goods. They've been tricked, flim-flammed, conned, and hustled. They've been bamboozled into believing that food comes wrapped in plastic from the freezer at the nearest Walmart. They've learned to believe that cooking is a chore -- like laundry or washing windows -- to be ...
Topics: Chef's Diary, food, green living, recipes (all these topics)

In My Hunger Days USDA pessimistic on hunger outlook		09 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 3:57 PM on 09 Jul 2008 In 2006, the U.S. Department of Agriculture calculated that 849 million people across the globe were "food-insecure" -- consuming less than 2,100 calories a day, or, in a word, hungry. But in its 2006 Food Security Report, the agency took an optimistic view of the situation, suggesting that the number of malnourished would fall to 800 million by 2017. Well, so much for that idea: In the just-released ...
Topics: biofuels, Department of Agriculture, food, news (all these topics)

Check out the carbon Will eco-labeling contribute to consumer shopping confusion?	Ben Tuxworth	09 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Ben Tuxworth, communications director at Forum for the Future, writes a monthly column for Gristmill on sustainability in the U.K. and Europe. ----- British supermarket shoppers face increasingly bewildering claims about the ethical qualities of products. In one of retail giant Tesco's stores, shoppers can opt for goods branded with the Soil Association's organic standard, the Fairtrade Foundation's logo, the British Farm standard, or chain-of-custody marks from the ...
Topics: food, ecological footprint, shopping, consumerism, green living, United Kingdom (all these topics)

World Bank responds to Guardian biofuel report Bank chief Zoelick hints his old boss Bush is full of it on biofuels and food prices	Tom Philpott	09 Jul 2008	Gristmill
As I reported a few days ago, the Guardian recently uncovered what it called a 'secret' World Bank assessment holding U.S. and European biofuel boosterism largely responsible for the recent run-up in global food prices. You know, the one that has pushed 50 million new people under the poverty line globally, and essentially priced tens of millions of already-poor folks out of food markets. (The government-engineered biofuel boom has also unleashed a veritable tsunami of ...
Topics: biofuels, food, World Bank, politics, international politics (all these topics)

Checkout Line: Nuts to you The unshelled story on the nutty side of our food supply	Lou Bendrick	09 Jul 2008	Gristmill
This post marks the launch of our new food-advice column Checkout Line, by talented, funny, and food-obsessed Lou Bendrick. Ever get confused in the supermarket, wondering which 'all-natural' label is legit? Ever wonder what you'd actually say to a farmer at a farmers market, or whether organic is better than local, or how you can stretch your dollar when you're buying for the whole family? Lettuce know what food worries keep you up at night by writing us at groceries ...
Topics: advice, Checkout Line, food, organic food (all these topics)

The Obama-vore's Dilemma Alice Waters: Dem candidate gets it on food issues	Tom Philpott	09 Jul 2008	Gristmill
I read once that during the 1960 presidential campaign, John F. Kennedy met Norman Mailer, already a lion of American letters. If I remember correctly, Kennedy let slip that his favorite novel was Mailer's The Deer Park -- thus establishing his impeccable taste and intellectual rigor in the eyes of that mercurial novelist. Mailer went on to write about Kennedy as a kind of existential hero, doing his bit to burnish the Camelot mystique.A similar event has evidently happ ...
Topics: politics, Barack Obama, food, video, presidential race 08, Alice Waters (all these topics)

The Guardian uncovers a 'secret' World Bank biofuel report Economist says biofuels have pushed up global food prices by 75 percent	Tom Philpott	05 Jul 2008	Gristmill
The 'Republican war on science' has evidently opened a new front: economics, a discipline often fetishized by the right. In a startling article published July 4, the Guardian reports that in a "secret" study, a World Bank senior economist concluded that the recent explosion in biofuels use has driven global food prices up by 75 percent -- a number much higher than estimates from other major sources. The USDA -- which has vigorously defended President Bush's se ...
Topics: biofuels, economy, ethanol, food, World Bank (all these topics)

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