Distillers Join the Fight Against Food Waste
When Moose Koons offered to buy overripe, misshapen, and undersized fruit from farmers in Palisade, Colorado, their reactions were all the same. “They thought we were nuts!” he recalls. The...
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Are Hospital Farms the Next Big Thing in Healthcare Reform?
This summer, St. Luke’s Hospital started sending all new moms home from the hospital with a basket of fresh produce, recipes, and literature about the importance of a healthy diet. All of the produce...
View ArticleCarving A New Path: Training Inmate Butchers
In an old storage building turned makeshift butcher shop, a group of men wearing white coats and yellow rubber aprons grab knives, turn on band saws, and set to working breaking down deer carcasses...
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Stadiums Score with Farm-to-Game Eats
Tampa’s Amalie Arena serves hot dogs, nachos, and the rest of the foods that fans expect at an NHL game. But the arena also offers herb-studded risotto, seasonal soups, and a salad bar—all sourced from...
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A Floating Food Forest Prepares to Sets Sail in New York City
Half public art project, half tourist destination, a floating food forest called Swale is set to launch along the New York City waterfront in June. Unlike the Beacon Food Forest in Seattle, Clifton...
View ArticleUrban Farms Bring Us Together, but Can They Feed Enough of Us?
When fresh food sprouts on urban rooftops, floating barges, and in once-abandoned buildings and schoolyards, people take notice. “Spaces that have gardens have a different atmosphere than vacant lots,”...
View ArticleHow Women Farmers are Changing U.S. Agriculture
Women now account for 30 percent of the farm operators in the U.S., a number which has almost tripled in the last three decades, creating the fastest growing segment in agriculture. But beyond the...
View ArticleThis Company Wants to Bring Heritage Chicken to the Masses
Jesse Solomon believes heritage breeds are the future of chicken production. “The motivation of Big Ag is to feed the largest number of people at the lowest cost [and] it has led to cheap meat that is...
View ArticleWill This New Bill Level the Playing Field for Urban Farms?
Urban farming received a legitimizing nod last month when Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-Michigan) introduced the Urban Agriculture Act of 2016 in hopes of getting it included in the next Farm Bill. In a...
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Access or Gentrification—Can a Food Hall Transform a Food Desert?
When residents and businesses in Birmingham, Alabama abandoned the city center for the suburbs in the 1950s and ’60s, they left many downtown buildings boarded up and in neglect, and for decades, not...
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Seeding a Need: How a Seed Company Doubles its Impact
David Mauro started thinking about novel approaches to food access while volunteering at the food bank near his Nashville home. “I became disenchanted watching the same people come back week after...
View ArticleBringing Healing Meals to the Chronically Ill in California
“Food is medicine” has become a common refrain. Now a coalition of California nonprofits hopes to test this theory with a program that would deliver medically tailored meals to the doors of low-income...
View ArticleA Fresh Idea to Improve Food Access
Every Friday afternoon at 3:30 p.m., a school bus parks outside the South End Community Health Center in Boston, opens its doors, and invites local residents to come inside and purchase groceries....
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With Vertical Farms, Food Banks are Growing their Own Produce to Fight Hunger
When temperatures dip below zero, it’s too cold for farmers to grow fresh produce in Tulsa. Until spring, almost all of the fresh fruits and vegetables distributed through the Community Food Bank of...
View ArticleForaging is Alive and Well in Baltimore. Can it Help Fight Hunger Too?
Foraging is a hot trend, with home cooks, chefs, and craft brewers alike harvesting wild, local ingredients ranging from mushrooms and berries to dandelion greens and nettles. Now, a new peer-reviewed...
View ArticleHow Women Farmers are Changing U.S. Agriculture
Women now account for 30 percent of the farm operators in the U.S., a number which has almost tripled in the last three decades, creating the fastest growing segment in agriculture. But beyond the...
View ArticleThis Company Wants to Bring Heritage Chicken to the Masses
Jesse Solomon believes heritage breeds are the future of chicken production.“The motivation of Big Ag is to feed the largest number of people at the lowest cost [and] it has led to cheap meat that is...
View ArticleWill This New Bill Level the Playing Field for Urban Farms?
Urban farming received a legitimizing nod last month when Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-Michigan) introduced the Urban Agriculture Act of 2016 in hopes of getting it included in the next Farm Bill.In a...
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Access or Gentrification—Can a Food Hall Transform a Food Desert?
When residents and businesses in Birmingham, Alabama abandoned the city center for the suburbs in the 1950s and ’60s, they left many downtown buildings boarded up and in neglect, and for decades, not...
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Seeding a Need: How a Seed Company Doubles its Impact
David Mauro started thinking about novel approaches to food access while volunteering at the food bank near his Nashville home. “I became disenchanted watching the same people come back week after...
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