AltWeeklies Wire
Grafting Tomatoes ‘The Next Big Thing?’new
Southern organic gardeners are discovering what could be The Next Big Thing in tomatoes: grafting.
Jackson Free Press |
Jim Pathfinder Ewing |
04-26-2013 |
Gardening
Fowl play on Thanksgivingnew
Down on the farm with The Turkey Man, Ben Pate.
Creative Loafing (Tampa) |
Arielle Stevenson |
11-25-2012 |
Food+Drink
Tags: farming
Shaky Groundnew
Maggie Henry has spent 35 years growing her all natural farm in Northwest Pa. Now a nearby gas drilling operation in a field of old abandoned wells threaten to take it all away.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Charlie Deitch |
09-19-2012 |
Environment
Monsanto's Point of No Returnnew
Is it too late to save our food supply from a business model gone mad? While many worry over Monsanto's use of genetically modified seeds, the food supply giant has very rapidly gained control of the seed market. It's becoming difficult or impossible to find seed of any kind that isn't sold by Monsanto.
Boulder Weekly |
Joel Dyer |
08-31-2012 |
Business & Labor
Chicago Chefs Invest in Rare Breed of Pig Said to be the Wagyu of the Pork Worldnew
Mangalitsas are an old Austro-Hungarian breed that had no presence in the United States until about three years ago. Like other old breeds, Mangalitsas are lard-type pigs, fattening well -- if slowly -- and producing juicy marbled meat.
Chicago Reader |
Mike Sula |
11-16-2009 |
Food+Drink
Getting By: Vermont Thrift-Seekers Practice Glean Livingnew
The process of culling leftovers from farmers' fields, called gleaning, is as old as agriculture itself. Several Bible passages actually mandate that growers leave the last bits of the harvest for "the poor and the stranger."
Seven Days |
Suzanne Podhaizer |
10-05-2009 |
Food+Drink
Sure, Food Prices Are Rising, but Trust Me, They're Sell-Offsnew
Only time will tell if we're at the point in the food debate to pop the taboo question: how come, despite widespread grousing about rising prices, our food is so bizarrely cheap?
NOW Magazine |
Wayne Roberts |
09-14-2009 |
Food+Drink
'Deeply Rooted' Profiles Farmers Who Refuse to Fit the Agribusiness Moldnew
Even though Lisa Hamilton narrows her focus to the extent that Deeply Rooted doesn't capture the breadth that it might have otherwise, she still conveys the raw truth that a positive food future lies in the hands of irascible individuals rather than corporations and captains of industry.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Zane Fischer |
08-27-2009 |
Nonfiction
Boulder County's Debate on GMOs Infiltrated by Biotech Industrynew
When the Boulder County Commissioners are asked to decide later this month whether six farmers leasing county agricultural land can grow genetically modified (GM) sugar beets, chances are they'll hear from the food biotechnology industry itself -- and they might not realize it.
Boulder Weekly |
Pamela White |
08-10-2009 |
Food+Drink
Nova Scotia's Organic Milk Industry Faces Bureaucratic Bullnew
Cows' milk is different from most food Nova Scotians buy.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Lezlie Lowe |
08-05-2009 |
Food+Drink
New Federal Food Safety Regulations Won't Impact Small Farmsnew
Locavores may have raised their hackles last week when reading that the Obama administration released a series of new proposals to regulate a number of foods, including eggs, poultry and beef. But farms with fewer than 3,000 laying hens would be exempt from the new rules on salmonella testing and refrigeration. The exception reflects small farms' reduced operation scale and the uneven costs these would levy on them.
C-Ville Weekly |
Melissa Batchelor Warnke |
07-22-2009 |
Food+Drink
Robert Kenner Talks Cloned Meats, Big Agribusiness and 'Food, Inc.'new
Kenner is no stranger to controversial subjects. He won an Emmy for his 2005 "Two Days in October," which examined the domestic response to the Vietnam War during the turbulent fall of 1967. Kenner runs into a even more volatile subject with his new documentary, Food, Inc., an investigate peek into America's big agribusinesses and meat and poultry industries.
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
07-07-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
American Consumers and Growers are Left in the Dust as China Goes Organicnew
Even as demand for organic food continues to explode, organic farmers in America are getting thrown under the beet cart they helped build. The Chinese are taking over the market share, especially of vegetables and soy, thanks to several American-based multinational food corporations that have hijacked the organic bandwagon they only recently jumped onto.
Weekly Alibi |
Ari LeVaux |
07-07-2009 |
Food+Drink
'Food, Inc.': Appetite Suppressantnew
Doomsday opening aside, Food, Inc. largely forgoes bombast, but you don't need the pictures to get the drift here, which is, more or less, that the American food industry is pretty much fucked.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
06-26-2009 |
Reviews
'Food, Inc.' Reveals Hidden Costs on the Menunew
Of all the scary food documentaries, Food, Inc. proves the most powerful and the most neatly packaged. Overall, it serves as a resounding call to action that holds out hope for the future. In the short-term, its perspective on food calls to mind an old quip by Rodney Dangerfield: "At my house, we pray after we eat."
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
06-18-2009 |
Reviews
