Good Food is Everybody's Business
Bob’s Red Mill Organic Spelt makes a great tasting bread, whether you like sandwich loaves or traditional artisan rounds, especially when combined with whole wheat and unbleached white flours, flax seed, wheat brand, and/or other grains and seeds.
Marra Farm in Seattle’s South Park, an urban farm that grows food for the hungry, is caught in a moral dilemma. Should they use seeds donated from companies who also sell Monsanto varieties? Martha Baskin, Green Acre Radio, visits the farm and explores the issue.
In Ben & Jerry’s Double-Dip, Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield offer the ultimate insider’s guide to creating a values-led business that makes money while benefiting the entire community.
The use of artificial enhancements is relatively recent. In the 1800s, American food manufacturers began doctoring their wares with toxic pigments made from lead and copper. Today, while food dyes come from a wide range of sources, many artificial dyes are petroleum-based. Why degrade the nutrient value of our food with over processing and artificial colors and flavors? Natural colors are much more than visually attractive, they provide nutritive value too.
We put money in banks to keep it safe, so it will be there when we need it. In the same way, seeds are put in special facilities, called seed banks, which keep them safe and extend their viability, so they will be available for many years.
One of every three mouthfuls of food and drink has required the work of a pollinator, a designation that includes social bees, solitary bees, wasps, flies, butterflies, moths, and beetles, and these invertebrates are in trouble.
The “new” old farm had lots of surprises for a young mother, and the old ewe, “Mama,” and her new lamb, “Sure to Go,” delivered even more. It could have been an inauspicious start to sheep raising when Lea’s wandering sheep had to be brought home at the end of ropes.
Frank Morton has been breeding and selecting seed for more than 25 years. In this video, he talks about the importance of seed and how the interaction between seed and human changed both.
