An interesting concept at community food bank in Arizona that runs community gardens and farmer’s markets in underserved areas. They have a program where home gardeners and local farmers can sign up and drop off produce at the stand to be sold on consignment. No resold produce all must be grown locally by the participant. [...]
This lovely winter salad consists of all local ingredients procured on Saturday, Jan. 24th at the Columbus Winter Farmers Market. It has baby spinach from Carousel Watergardens Farm, sunflower greens and mung bean sprouts from Frijolito Farm and raw goat cheese feta from Osage Lane Creamery. The greens and sprouts were fresh and crisp and [...]
This entry by Brian Depew on Tue, 12/16/2008 on Blog for Rural America provides some insight on how Vilsack will fare on issues important to sustainable minded small farmers. It is encouraging. Although his enthusiasm for biotech is one of his major negatives, he does address some of those issues in this interview.
Vilsack Appointed Ag [...]
PBS recently aired an interview with Michael Pollan about American food policy, changes he’d like to see the Obama administration make to localize agriculture, and the wishes of some that Pollan be appointed Secretary of Agriculture. The video is in two parts and also features farmers markets and community gardening in New York City.
Part 1:
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/11282008/watch.html
Part 2:
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/11282008/watch2.html
December 13
January 3 & 24
February 14 & 28
March 7 & 21
April 4 & 18
10am-1pm
to be held in the fellowship hall at the
First Unitarian Universalist Church
93 West Weisheimer Rd.
Columbus, Ohio 43214
Located 3 blocks North of West Henderson Rd., the church parking lot is behind Panera Bread at 4519 North High Street, Columbus, Ohio
Summer may be over [...]
By Karen G.
Thank you for the opportunity to address an issue that is very near and dear to my heart. That is the need to talk about and make changes in the availability of fresh vegetables. I would like to enlist the help of churches, non-profits and even individual gardeners to grow locally and donate [...]
