Posts Tagged ‘local food’

Article from Civil Eats, September 23, 2009

Many gardeners are currently pulling up plants and preparing beds for fall. They are laying parts of their garden to rest while their squash lay about, curing in the sun. Some gardeners are already turning their backs on their plots and projecting their green minds through winter and into next spring. But fall is not the time for complacency in the garden. It’s a great time to sneak in some late plantings of lettuce and greens—and it’s the ripest time of year to save some seeds.

Saving seeds sustains us. It is a cultural activity, one that connects us to 12,000 years of the most essential human tradition. Saving seeds also connects us to our familiar food plants in new ways, teaching us to appreciate each plant’s full life cycle from seed to seed. Now, more than ever, saving seeds is also a political act—a good garden practice that doubles as agricultural activism.

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Article and photo from The Washington Post, September 8, 2009

You feel pretty virtuous when you buy local food. It’s fresher, maybe even more nutritious, proponents say. Now advocates are pushing another selling point: Local food strengthens the economy. It keeps money in local communities and helps create jobs, which in turn can help reduce crime.

Wow. And you thought all you were getting was a really good peach.

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Article and image from Serious Eats, August 25, 2009:

There was a time when I cultivated tomatoes over acres, not in small pots on windowsills. I now make my home in Brooklyn and have no backyard, front yard, or rooftop to speak of. But in college I spent my summers riding in the back of pickup trucks; weeding fields; and selling tomatoes and peppers, blueberries and yellow squash at farmers markets’ throughout the D.C. area. Back at school, friends and I yearned for food that didn’t originate in the dining hall so we founded a highly successful biweekly farmers’ market. I don’t claim to have the wisdom of full-time farmers, but as a former farm worker and market manager, and as an active market go-er and home cook, I feel that I know a thing or two about what makes a good farmers’ market.

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Article from Baby Creative’s Blog, August 23, 2009:

As the name suggest it is a living, mobile garden inside the bed of a 1986 Dodge half-ton pickup truck, parked on the streets of Brooklyn (US) which grows tomatoes, broccoli, arugula, and parsley. Would love to see something like this on the streets of London, maybe we will do it ourselves?

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This isn’t necessarily a food article, however, take a look and read about the number one green school in America: University of Washington.

According to the article, a quarter of all the food used in the school is local, organic or fair trade.  With all of the great farmland here in Essex County, maybe this is a policy we should be pressing the University of Windsor and St. Clair College to adopt?