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    It (almost) can't get more local than growing at the grocery store

    Are farmers markets not fresh enough for you? Do you love the experience of walking down aisles of food which the grocery store can offer but cringe at the miles and minutes it took for your dinner to reach you? Then Agropolis may be for you!

    Ashley Braun Technology

  • New Agtivist: Gene Fredericks is thinking inside the city’s big box

    They're the bane of urban and suburban areas alike: the vacant, boarded-up K-Marts and Home Depot Expos. But where most people see blight and a waste of space, San Francisco Bay Area entrepreneur Gene Fredericks sees opportunity: to grow food. Lots of food. Fredericks' latest venture, Big Green Boxes, offers a new, high-tech, sustainable approach to Feeding the City.

    Bonnie Azab Powell Technology

  • Oil found in Gulf food chain, salmon nastiness, Mexico woes, U.N. lauds sustainable ag

    When my info-larder gets too packed, it’s time to serve up some choice nuggets from around the Web. Get’em while they’re hot.BP oil infiltrates the Gulf’s food chain The inevitable has happened. From a McLatchy article: University scientists have spotted the first indications oil is entering the Gulf seafood chain — in crab larvae — […]

    Tom Philpott Food

  • Veggies not challenging enough? Try home ‘aquaponic’ gardening

    Last year, thanks in large part to the White House kitchen garden, the country saw a resurgence in interest in backyard gardening. But this being America, where one-upsmanship sometimes seems like a national pastime, the vanguard has apparently moved on … to “aquaponics.” The New York Times illustrates what makes this “breeding edge” of backyard […]

    Tom Laskawy Culture

  • Are the oceans the future of food?

    If the the future of food is hazy right now due to overconsumption, globalization, and climate change, the future of seafood is even murkier. The global fish catch topped out sometime in the 1990s, leaving many fish populations more or less permanently overstressed. Aquaculture has grown to satisfy rising global demand – but fish farms […]

    John McQuaid Food

  • Black (fly) magic

    Adult black soldier fly.blacksoldierflyblog.comBlack soldier fly larvae are all the rage in composting, and the star performer in a new kind of “ultimate vermicomposting” system. These critters will devour anything biological that you can throw at them, including items that normally cannot be composted and instead end up in the trash, so called ‘putrescent’ wastes […]

    Erik Hoffner Culture

  • What’s the dish on farm-raised catfish?

    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’s up, cat?Dear Lou,My wife and I enjoy fish and like to eat a variety of types of fish. Living in Minnesota […]

    Lou Bendrick Food

  • Chilean salmon industry plunges into an abyss of pesticides and antibiotics

    Down on the farm: most salmon consumed in the U.S. comes from industrial aquaculture. Ninety percent of the salmon consumed in the United States comes from factory-style farms–most of it imported. Until very recently, our biggest supplier was Chile–whose salmon industry is in a state of collapse, ravaged by a virus called “infectious salmon anemia.” […]

    Tom Philpott Food

  • Antibiotic-resistant salmonella burgers, with a side of flame retardants

    A Colorado company recalled the equivalent of 1.86 million Quarter Pounders. In Meat Wagon, we round up the latest outrages of the meat and livestock industries. ————————————— Sometimes I think I write a little too much about the meat industry. But the news it generates is so consistently grave, and so generally underreported, that I […]

    Tom Philpott Food