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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...
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Fast Food Giant McDonalds Takes on Local Food and Nutrition Education?
To many local food and nutrition advocates, fast food chains like the omnipresent McDonalds represent all that is backw...
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Local Food in the Underground Kitchen
She calls herself the Marmite Lover, and she is part of an underground movement to support local dining. Now certified...
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Foraging for Sustainable Food
Foraged food is perhaps the highest form of sustainable food, at least when it implies the hunter-gather model of colle...
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USDA Funds Community Food Security and Sustainable Food Systems
Last week, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack announced 27 Community Food Project grant recipients, emphasizing the O...
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Special Delivery!: Sustainable Urban Transportation for Sustainable Food
The bike craze has hit some cities harder than others, just as the local, sustainable food movement is more ingrained i...
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Food Safety: BPA and Health Hazards
For some time now, BPA has been seriously questioned in the consumer base, governmental bodies and food safety agencies...
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GMO Corn: A New Route
While browsing the USDA website for new articles on Genetically Modified Organisms in the food supply, I ran across a p...
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Pocket Markets: Local Food from the Street Corner
Imagine this local food scenario: you walk up to a house in the deep evening. Moving up the walkway, you notice a vege...
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Food Safety: USDA NOP Update, Chlorine (6 of 6)
This is the final article in the series on food safety in the organic industry. It talks about the use of chlorine in c...
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Thinking Outside the Box: Packaging for a More Sustainable Food System
It's no secret that we, and especially we Americans, produce a lot of waste. Food waste is no exception, and as we begi...
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Local Compost for Local Sustainable Agriculture
Compost makes the world go round, or at least the world of sustainable agriculture. Compost, a mix of decomposed plant...
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Innovative Ways to Save Land for Sustainable Agriculture
An increasing number of young or beginning farmers are seeking land so that they can really dig into sustainable agricu...
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Certifiable: Local Food Plus Certifies Farmers
For the aspiring foodie, sourcing local and organic food can certainly seem like a vast wilderness. First, there is the...
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Saving Seeds for the Future of Sustainable Agriculture
Diverse and organic seeds are essential to the future and proliferation of sustainable agriculture. Seed saving is bec...
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Food Safety: USDA NOP Update, Outdoor Access for Poultry (5 of 6)
We've all seen the videos that exhibit the questionable food safety practices of many large-scale industrial chicken fa...
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Amsterdam Showcases Sustainable Urban Agriculture
It's no secret that the U.S. is terribly behind much of Europe in the quest to build more sustainable communities, and...
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Food Safety: USDA NOP Update, Contamination (4 of 6)
Food safety of organic products in systems where it is possible to grow and harvest both "traditional" and certified o...
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Healthy Food Action: Bridging the Gap Between Public Health and the Farm
In the past decades there has been a significant and persistent chasm between public health policy and agricultural pol...
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United Nations Promotes Sustainable Gardening in Schools to Combat Hunger and Poverty Worldwide
One of the most prominent international food organizations, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (...
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Food Safety: USDA NOP Update, Wild Crops (3 of 6)
Wild crop harvesting poses an interesting topic of discussion regarding food safety and organic certification. The dra...
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