Jenny's Food and Agriculture Update, February 10, 2013

by Jenny Huston
Monday, April 1, 2013

 

 

·      4 Lessons for Growing a Family Farm Across Generations http://bit.ly/WNPsTg

Breaking our families into nuclear units has an ecological and emotional cost. Could the multigenerational farm remind us where to turn for a viable future?

 

·      Iceland’s Mass Herring Deaths Prompt Investigation By Government Officials http://huff.to/TKKNBX

 

·      Healthy Restaurant Meals Boost Chain Sales, New Study Says http://huff.to/V1I5Y6

o   Hudson Institute: Lower-Calorie Foods: It’s Just Good Business ht...

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Jenny's Food & Ag Update February 18, 2013

by Jenny Huston
Monday, April 1, 2013

 

 

·      Fewer bees in US a threat to world’s almond supply http://yhoo.it/Z5MIjM

 

·      Tuna’s Last Stand http://bit.ly/WiWsI3

In early January, scientists released jaw-dropping data showing that bluefin tuna in the North Pacific to be “functionally extinct.”

 

·      US Food Industry Battles Against Regulation http://bit.ly/Y9xRnn

 

·      Quinoa: To Buy or Not to Buy… Is This the Right Question? http://bit.ly/Wu4H2Q

 

·      Swedes Consuming Low-Fat Dairy Products Gain More Weight http://bit.ly/12KQx...

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Jenny's Food & Ag Update, February 24, 2013

by Jenny Huston
Monday, April 1, 2013

 

 

Twitter: @chefjennyhuston

 

·      Create a Fruit Map of Your Neighborhood http://bit.ly/W1viSR

 

·      Are Young Native Americans Changing the State of Food in Indian Country? http://bit.ly/W2uvRC

Diabetes and food insecurity are rife in native communities, but research suggests tribes are now turning to sustain able agriculture.

 

·      Report: Farmers Markets as a Strategy to Improve Access to Healthy Food for Low-Income Families and Communities http://bit.ly/Vx5yRa

 

·      Shiitake DIY: How to...

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Jenny's Food & Ag Update March 3, 2013

by Jenny Huston
Monday, April 1, 2013

 

 

·      India’s rice revolution http://bit.ly/Yo0Nbq

In a village in India’s poorest state, Bihar, farmers are growing world record amounts of rice (22.4 tonnes per hectare)  – with no GM, and no herbicide. Is this one solution to world food shortages?

Using a system called System of Rice (or root) Intensification (SRI)

o   Miracle grow: Indian farmers smash crop yields records without GMOs http://bit.ly/15ApQgO

 

·      Baltimore Food Hub: $10M campus for food related businesses, job training...

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Jenny's Food food and Ag Update, March 20, 2013

by Jenny Huston
Monday, April 1, 2013

 

 

·      Indian man single-handedly plants a 1,360-acre forest http://bit.ly/UrpfG3

 

·      UN Report: Women’s rights and the right to food http://bit.ly/13A1tR2

 

·      Domesticated and wild bees are both in trouble http://bit.ly/Zsb5rl

o   “Promiscuous” Bees and Vanishing Insects Mean Less Food For Us http://bit.ly/108EyLL

 

·      Fixing Food: Seed Solution Models for a New Agricultural Paradigm http://bit.ly/Y4D29M

 

·      Sorry, Michelle, but cheerleading isn’t enough to make Big Food Change http:...

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Garden Sass Farmers Market

by Farmers Market Manager
Monday, April 1, 2013

This season at Garden Sass Farmers Market, as managers of the Downtown Farmers market on the Square, we will be setting up on the south side of the downtown Square I Cassville MO on Sat from 7:00am till sold.

First Name: John
Last Name: Potter Sr
Market: Garden Sass Farmers market Assn
City: Cassville
State: MO

 

The Rise of the New Food Culture & More

by Jenny Huston
Saturday, December 22, 2012

·      Arizona charity’s Wal-Mart snub may have paid off http://bit.ly/VAa6SK

·      Worldwatch Institute: Climate Friendly Food Production http://goo.gl/geDED and here is the Report: Innovations in Sustainable Agriculture: Supporting Climate Friendly Food Production http://goo.gl/sGm53

·      What does obesity have to do with climate change? Plenty, say some scientists http://bit.ly/Uiqo2A

o   Obesity in Young Is Seen as Falling in Several Cities http://nyti.ms/Xd697M

·      Vandana Shiva:...

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Jenny's Food and Ag Update December 9, 2012

by Jenny Huston
Tuesday, December 11, 2012

 

 

·      Homeless Food Trucks: San Francisco Considers Novel Ways To Feed The Hungry http://huff.to/PHBtbR

o   Food Truck for the Poor http://bit.ly/SNDc2n

 

·      Life Story: A farmer who shared the land and his heart http://bit.ly/11DC6KC

 

·      The Diet-Climate Connection: How the foods we eat affect the planet we inhabit (public radio documentaries) http://goo.gl/YLy7T

 

·      In Mexico diabetes is a more dangerous killer than drug cartels http://goo.gl/ztUPi

 

·      Too much carbon dioxide can...

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Jenny's Food & Ag Update December 2, 2012

by Jenny Huston
Tuesday, December 11, 2012

 

 

Twitter: @chefjennyhuston

 

·      Cornstalks Everywhere But Nothing Else, Not Even A Bee http://goo.gl/zcE1S

 

·      Europe Milk Quota Protests: Police Sprayed with Thousands of Liters of Fresh Milk http://goo.gl/UDg9S

o   Milky Way: Infuriated farmers spray milk on riot police in Brussels http://goo.gl/h4Z31

Thousands of dairy farmers on Monday protested low prices for their

product, choking traffic in the Belgian capital with their tractors and spraying European Union headquarters and police with...

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Jenny's Food & Ag Update November 25, 2012

by Jenny Huston
Tuesday, December 11, 2012

 

 

 

·      Report: Organic Farming for Health and Prosperity http://goo.gl/Yy9ZR

 

·      How Climate Change Is an Historic Opportunity for Progressives http://goo.gl/pXPJQ

 

·      EU Shark Fin Ban: Parliament Pushes to Protect Animal http://goo.gl/mBD9S

 

·      Re imagine, Prototype & Build the Future of Meat: HACK//MEAT http://goo.gl/aN1Ht

 

·      Science for Hire: Why Industry’s Deep Pockets May Be Depleting the Last of Our Fisheries http://goo.gl/ZpW1q

To understand how this happens one must dig...

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