Good Food is Everybody's Business
Even for mushroom-hunting novices, morels are easy to identify. Hard to find, but easy to be sure you’re not getting something poisonous! They’re really well camouflaged and are very hard to see in the leaf litter around the base of of a tree. Learn more about morel hunting in Minnesota.
Fatou Batta, Co-Coordinator for West Africa from Groundswell International, spoke recently in Seattle about the causes of food insecurity in Africa, particularly in Burkina Faso; the role of rural women in agricultural production and food security; the challenges rural women face; and some of the solutions they have developed.
Ready to learn all about good food? Here are enough videos to keep you watching for more than one weekend! Pop some corn, put your feet up, and prepare to be moved, inspired, infuriated, and motivated!
Over the last 40 years, obesity has become an American epidemic, one to which we can correlate any number of changes and trends. Here are …
Lawyers are busy trying to deal with new challenges from manufacturers of genetically engineered seed crops. There are two in the works now: one against the USDA charging that they did not handle the approval of genetically modified alfalfa in a lawful manner. The second is is a preemptive move that challenges the right of Monsanto to charge farmers whose plants have become contaminated with Monsanto’s genetically modified seeds with intellectual piracy. The Cornucopia Institute is a plaintiff in both cases, and Mark Kastel speaks about these issues.
The San Francisco Public Library is launching a pilot program at the Potrero Branch where residents can “check out” seeds, borrow books, tap into databases, and find other information sources about urban gardening. The process is simple: residents choose from a list of vegetable seeds available in the Seed Library collection, borrow them, and plant their seeds. After they have harvested their crops, they save the seeds from the heartiest and healthiest of their harvest and return the seeds to the same branch.
If you garden in the northern US or southern Canada, there is still time to grow your own garden “starts” from seed. The folks at …
Lea McEvilly, nearly lost her ewe, Mama, and lamb, Sure to Go, to the sale barn after the wandering sheep had to be brought home at the end of ropes. That didn’t stop Lea. Just barely outweighing the lamb, with no idea how to build a fence, and shorter than most of the posts, she simply did it!
