Local food, for real
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14 pointers toward a better food system: Connecting the (local, sustainable) dots
If we want to scale up the local food movement's ideas, here's a list of principles that could make all the difference.
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Want to breathe new life into your city? Build a fence around it
Protecting local farms can be a recipe for urban revival, if Portland is any indication. Of course, that's easier said than done.
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Urban farms won’t feed us, but they just might teach us
It's clear that the craze for the urban farm is no answer to feeding our teeming cities. Its value lies instead in how it can change us.
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When your produce gets wasted, it’s really a cry for help
Reducing the astonishing amount of waste built into our food system will demand innovation, care, and maybe even higher prices.
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Teaching butchers — and brewers, and picklers — to stay out of the red
A school for entrepreneurs offers real-world business lessons to help small food businesses stay afloat.
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Making food deserts bloom takes more than just a baptism of kale
Delivering healthy food to underserved urban communities takes more than just good intentions and fresh veggies. It also needs hard work and smarts.
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Un till: An Iowa farmer finds that less (plow) is more (profit)
Maybe it's contradictory to mix conservation and conventional farming. Or maybe you end up with the agricultural equivalent of a Prius.
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Fairer fare: How to turn food system kinks into win-wins for growers and eaters
Start anywhere, follow it everywhere: That's the key to building sustainable local food systems, according to one expert veteran.
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Lunch money: Can schoolkids really eat local without breaking the bank?
High-quality local ingredients can spruce up cafeteria offerings, but they require some careful bargaining and accounting, too.
