Good Food is Everybody's Business
CDs, DVDs, and videos to challenge, interest, or excite you.
Atina Diffley, author of Turn Here Sweet Corn, discusses the criteria we need to consider when we design food and farming systems. Let’s make sure we’re asking the right questions! Listen to the Minnesota Public Radio interview with Atina here.
E.F. Schumacher’s collection of essays, Small is Beautiful, was published in response to the 1973 energy crisis and increasing globalization. His ideas predate today’s environmental destruction and economic collapse by four decades and yet the solutions he offers are both practical and practicable.
Devon Peña, professor of Anthropology at the University of Washington, Seattle, speaks about the importance of minority-owned businesses from Mendoza’s Mexican Mercado. Meet Sonia and …
You’d have to have your head in the dirt to miss all the garden books in every bookstore and garden center, not to mention on the Internet. Inspiring for sure! But this selection is not your garden-variety garden books! We’ve chosen seven books from the GoodFood World personal library not to help you design, construct, and grow your garden. They are to inspire your thinking.
Tom Baker (yes, that IS his last name) is an artisan baker and uses a wood fired “Earth Oven” to bake bread. He runs his business Loaf, a bakery and cookery school, from his home in Stirchley, Birmingham, UK.
The Farm Bill is anything but bureaucratic trivia. Rather, it’s is an essential economic and policy engine that drives the food and farming system. The Farm Bill matters! To be informed is to be armed…
Atina Diffley is the neighbor we didn’t know we had! Her new book, Turn Here Sweet Corn, is heart-felt, heart-warming, heart-stopping, and in the end heart-soaring! Ms. Diffley is clearly a poet speaking from her heart and yet has a steel backbone when it comes to meeting the challenges of nature, changing land use, and encroachment by the world’s most notorious polluters, Koch Industries.
We’ve pulled five books from the GoodFood World library, spanning a critical period in American agriculture – the late 1880s through the early 1940s. Before the development of “agro-chemicals” as an off-shoot of chemicals used in both World Wars, farming methods were naturally “organic.” These books, while considered somewhat dated today, are our grandfathers and great-grandfathers teaching us how to care for the land and animals.
