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Focus on Food: Growing a Local, Sustainable Supply Chain
There was a time when grain for bread was grown and milled locally in Southern Ontario. But that tradition has long past, forcing Toronto-based bakery Stonemill Bakehouse to source the ingredients for its healthy artisanal breads from Western Canada, the U.S. or even abroad. When the bakery looked at their carbon footprint they found that transporting ingredients to their facility in the Greater Toronto Area was their second biggest source of emissions. The company's solution is something not every food-related business is currently attempting: bakery owner Gottfried Boehringer has purchased a 100-acre farm in Prince Edward County, Onta...
All STORIES in Sustainable Food
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Go Go Greenhorns!: Young Farmers Ring in a New Era of Sustainable Agriculture
From a grassroots perspective, the Greenhorns is perhaps one of the most exciting new organizations in sustainable agri...
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Sustainable Agriculture on the Agenda in Iowa
Iowa and other mid-Western breadbasket (or corn basket?) states aren't often highlighted as champions of sustainable ag...
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Food Safety Bill S510 Update
There has been a lot of activity surrounding Senate Bill 510 which aims to regulate food systems in order to promote fo...
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GMOs & The FDA
While browsing the Food and Drug Administration's website, I noticed a whole _section_ on genetically engineered animal...
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Building Local Soil: Compost Pick Up Creates Soil From Food Scraps
Many people raise a stink about composting - although it diverts food waste from the landfill, it can be a challenge to...
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Healthy Food, HFCS & Marketing, Part 1
Part One of Two High Fructose Corn Syrup has really had a bad rap in the discussion of healthy food, and for good reaso...
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Healthy Food, HFCS & Marketing, Part 2
Continued from Part One Because HFCS is extremely sweet - much sweeter than table sugar - the other major claim to its...
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Animal Welfare Ratings for Meat Products Increase Food Safety
It should come as no surprise that animals and livestock raised in a healthy, sustainable way usually means less worry...
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Agropolis: The Future of Urban Agriculture?
Last week at the Nordic Exceptional Trendshop 2010, held in Denmark, one presentation took urban agriculture to the ne...
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The Food Forest: Local Eats Under the Canopy
We love trees: they provide shade, filtered light, shelter from the rain, and sometimes food. Walking out into the loc...
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Suggestions For Sustainable Agriculture Practice
There really is an air of hope on the horizon for sustainable agriculture on a commercial level. Even a brief browse on...
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Introducing Bioenergy for a Possibly More Sustainable Agriculture
To make agriculture truly sustainable, the United States would need to overhaul several factors in energy consumption,...
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U.S. Food System and Sustainable Agriculture
Sustainable agriculture is a good thing to think about when facing the possibility of peak oil, dwindling healthy soil,...
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In Japan, Boomers Eye Local Food as a Retirement Hobby
You've heard of pop-up books, but have you heard of pop-up gardens? Possibly not. Gardens are popping up all over the p...
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Genetically Modified Salmon: FDA is Near to Allow Into Market
Aqua Bounty Technologies, Inc. has created a new kind of GMO fish that grows bigger, faster, and has now been deemed "s...
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The Roadside Stand: Michigan Encourages Local Food Sales
Visit any rural area and you will see little stands tucked away into the shrubs by the side of country roads. This is t...
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Brooklyn Grange Adds New Dimension to Urban Agriculture
In New York City, some farmers are making strides towards an embedded system of urban agriculture. Home to well over 8...
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Burger King & Environmental Sustainability
An impressive voluntary move in the name of environmental sustainability has been made by Burger King, Incorporated /3G...
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Buffalo, New York: Ingenious Environmental Sustainability
Buffalo, New York is fueling a new vision of environmental sustainability. Long known as an industrial city, Buffalo r...
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Sustainable Agriculture: Sweet Valley Organics
Sweet Valley Organics of Emmet, Idaho (near Boise) is working towards a considerably more sustainable method of agricul...
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