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Opinion Article: Jim Hightower – Giving Thanks for America’s ‘Good Food...

Jim Hightower | Giving Thanks for America’s Good Food Movement Thursday 26 November 2009 by: Jim Hightower, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed What better day than Thanksgiving to celebrate our country’s food...

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A Good Food Manifesto for America, By Will Allen (Urban Farming Movement)

A Good Food Manifesto for America (Click Here for full Article) by Urban Farming Pioneer Will Allen from Growing Power The following are excerpts from Will Allen’s poignant and powerful Manifesto....

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BusinessWeek Article: Entrepreneurs Keep the Local Food Movement Hot

Local food businesses play a much more critical role in economic development than commonly thought, a new report shows By John Tozzi Entrepreneurs are flocking to local food, starting businesses...

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Slow Food Founder at Yale

The Yale Sustainable Food Project is honored to host Carlo Petrini, Founder and President of Slow Food International, on Tuesday, April 20, at 6:00 pm. The event is free and open to the public (with...

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Young Farmer Mixer! October 4th in Washington (State)

Join us this fall on Vashon Island as we congregate & celebrate a great season & the growing movement of young farmers across this nation. The Greenhorns (http://www.thegreenhorns.net) is going...

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Article: Local food movement good for agriculture

by Nat Williams, AgriNews Online EXCERPT: Jane Eckert said the growing trend involving cooking meals at home and buying fresh should be seen a positive to farmers. Eckert made the comments at the...

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On the Past and the Future of the Urban Agriculture Movement

On the Past and the Future of the Urban Agriculture Movement: Reflections in Tribute to Jac Smit by Anne C. Bellows, Joe Nasr (editors);   Diana Lee-Smith,  Luc J. A. Mougeot, Michael Levenston, Peter...

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Article on Importance of Food and Farming Movements

Foodies Can Eclipse (and Save) the Green Movement (By Bryan Walsh – Time Magazine) EXCERPT: Even as traditional environmentalism struggles, another movement is rising in its place, aligning consumers,...

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