Michael Freeston, Quality Inspector, Organically Grown Company
Michael Freeston, Quality Inspector for Organically Grown Company, tells how he tests – and tastes – for quality.
Category: Media
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, Barbara Kingsolver (Harper Perennial, 2008) Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, this book tells the story of how one family was changed by …
Tomorrow’s Table: Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food by Pamela Ronald and Raoul Adamchak
In modern agricultural politics, organic farming and genetic engineering occupy opposite ends of the spectrum. In the Ronald-Adamchak household, the world is not so black and white. Ronald is a professor of plant pathology at the University of California, Davis. Adamchak manages the student-run organic farm on campus. Together, they’re exploring the juncture where their methods can (and they argue, should) meet to ensure environmentally sustainable food production.
Fighting for the Future of Food by Rachel Schurman
Fighting for the Future of Food tells the story of how a small group of social activists, working together across tables, continents, and the Internet, took on the biotech industry and achieved stunning success. Rachel Schurman and William A. Munro detail how the anti-biotech movement managed to alter public perceptions about GMOs and close markets to such products.
At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson
Bill Bryson and his family live in a Victorian parsonage in a part of England where nothing of any great significance has happened since the Romans decamped. Yet one day, he began to consider how very little he knew about the ordinary things of life as he found it in that comfortable home. Whatever happens in the world, he demonstrates, ends up in our house, in the paint and the pipes and the pillows and every item of furniture.
Frank Morton explains how GMOs get that way
Ever wonder exactly how Monsanto gets those genes into GMOs? Frank Morton explains it in layman’s terms. For decades, Morton has been a “salad guy,” raising a wide variety of greens for seed and selling seed to gardeners and farmers.
The Economics of Happiness: Helena Norberg-Hodge
The industrial food system serves the special interests of investors rather than people. Our real health and happiness can be restored through local food systems that strengthen community relationships and empower individuals to participate. We have choice in discovering our own happiness.
Bringing the Food Economy Home by Helena Norberg-Hodge
Bringing the Food Economy Home reveals how a shift towards the local would protect and rebuild agricultural diversity by giving farmers a larger share of the money spent on food, and providing consumers with healthier, fresher food at more affordable prices.