local food
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Food hubs: How small farmers get to market
Creative distribution projects around the country are bringing local food to a wider audience.
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Know your bites: Does the USDA’s local-farms program have a chance?
Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food, the USDA's two-year-old campaign to support local growers, faces a moment of reckoning.
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Local in winter: An invitation
What does it take for you to eat locally grown foods in winter? We want your tips, ideas, stories, and…
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We can fund that! USDA grants help the local food movement grow
With a new round of grants worth $44 million, the government is helping small, local food producers move toward reaching…
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Lexicon of Sustainability: Mobile slaughterhouse
As the meat industry has grown more consolidated over the years, most small farms have had to truck their animals…
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Africa’s first green, locavore, gluten-free beer
In Mozambique, home brewing is big -- not because the country is full of mustachioed, fixie-riding expats from Portlandia, but…
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Food Studies: Thanksgiving marked the seasons in a post-seasonal world
Food Studies features the voices of volunteer student bloggers from a variety of different food- and agriculture-related programs…
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Incredible shrinking farmland
Photo: Alicia Guy Joel Huesby comes from a long line of conventional farmers, but…
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Maude’s Market: Spreading local food in Monsanto country
Maude Bauschard, outside her local food market in St. Louis. Maude Bauschard sells local…