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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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Slow Money Funds Local, Sustainable Food
Building a localized, sustainable food system is no easy, or cheap, task, and while the momentum around sustainable foo...
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Judge's GM Beet Decision Spells Triumph for Food Safety
They're out there, threatening food safety and making their way onto the dinner table. Genetically modified organisms h...
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Sustainable Food: Cooking up a Vegan Holiday
Tis the season to think about food. We begin at Thanksgiving, the end of the harvest season. We move on, eating our wa...
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Healthy Food Additive? Stevia Poised to Sweep Europe
In the world of food, there are sweeteners, and for years the debate has raged about the relative health effects of the...
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USDA Gives The Go-Ahead to GM Sugar Beets
It's not too much of a surprise that the USDA would give the okay to GM crops in our industrial food complex. The fact...
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Farmer's Market Database by the USDA
While browsing around the internet, I ran across this great tool to help consumers find Farmer's Markets in their ne...
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A Greenhouse Grows in Denver: Healthy, Sustainable Food in the City
Finding healthy sustainable food in the middle of the city can be difficult, particularly in areas that qualify as food...
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Nourish: Teaching Kids About Healthy Food
A new healthy food education initiative is now ready for action. Recently a comprehensive, multimedia curriculum was re...
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Organic Foods: Alternative Pest Control: Bats
Organic food is certainly susceptible to pests as much as "conventional" food; the main difference is that certified or...
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Food Safety Regulation: S510, Tester Amendment
Two bills are headed to the Senate floor in the name of Food Safety: The HR 2749 and the S510. HR2749 has passed the ho...
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Global Commitments and Sustainable Agriculture May Not Mix
A major part of any industry depends on its workforce, the way they are treated, the wages they receive and the fairnes...
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Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainable Workforce
Sustainable agriculture depends on many things, of course, including care for the soil, water, livestock and produce wh...
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Giving Thanks for Local Food
In so many ways, Thanksgiving is perhaps the most American of holidays. While we reserve our very American brand of mat...
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Share the Harvest: Local Food for Local Folks in Need
Suddenly the holiday season is upon us. Typically this is the time of year that sees the largest spike in charitable do...
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CSA Model Sustainable Agriculture Goes Global
Author and sustainable agriculture activist Elizabeth Henderson has just written an essay about a recent trip to Taiwan...
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Drugstores Provide Healthy Food in Chicago's Food Deserts
An unlikely hero has emerged in Chicago's many neighborhoods that qualify as "food deserts," or areas where fresh, h...
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Food Stories: A Sustainable Thanksgiving
It's almost Thanksgiving, and sustainable food is on the minds and on the tables of people around the United States. I...
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The Sustainable Food Hub
We tend to think of hubs in terms of tires or perhaps bus stations: not the most sustainable of images. However, there'...
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Senate Bill S510: The Tester Amendment
There's so much to talk lately, regarding Senate Bill S510, because food safety within our industrial farming system is...
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Senate Bill S510: Points & Counterpoints
Senate Bill S510, the Food Safety and Modernization Act is being discussed right now amongst senators, advocates and co...
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