Farm Futures sur Twitter : "29% of young farmers in @AFBFYFR survey say access to land is biggest #farm concern. Access to land still the biggest concern for young farmers, ranchers. Dan Barber Takes a Radically Holistic Approach to Food and Farming With 'The Third Plate' Dan Barber’s book, The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food, was released this week, graced with blurbs by everyone from Ruth Reichl to Al Gore and Malcolm Gladwell.
And if it feels like it was a long time coming, that’s because it was. The chef and writer spent over a decade visiting farmers and other food producers and ruminating about the role their work plays in the wider natural world. Meanwhile Barber was also running a world-renowned restaurant, Blue Hill at Stone Barns, part of a small constellation of other efforts, including Blue Hill restaurant in New York City, the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture, and Barber’s nearby family farm. His position at the helm of Blue Hill, surrounded by the thriving agricultural scene in New York’s Hudson Valley, and his forays into other parts of the world to explore food systems, inform the book, just as his writing informed Blue Hills’ menus.
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Eating Sustainably. Small-Scale Grain Raising: An Organic Guide to Growing, Processing, and Using Nutritious Whole Grains, for Home Gardeners and Local Farmers. // May 1st, 2012 // agriculture With information on mushroom cultivation, sowing a fruit forest, alternative ways to keep livestock, and more… Sepp Holzer farms steep mountainsides in Austria 1,500 meters above sea level.
His farm is an intricate network of terraces, raised beds, ponds, waterways and tracks, well covered with productive fruit trees and other vegetation, with the farmhouse neatly nestling amongst them. This is in dramatic contrast to his neighbors’ spruce monocultures. In this book, Holzer shares the skill and knowledge acquired over his lifetime. In Sepp Holzer’s Permaculture readers will learn: How he sets up a permaculture systemThe fruit varieties he has found best for permaculture growingHow to construct terraces, ponds, and waterwaysHow to build shelters for animals and how to work with them on the landHow to cultivate edible mushrooms in the garden and on the farmand much more! See also Documentary Film: 40 hours of Free Permaculture Webinar: Farmers, consumers seek Common Ground. If given a chance, small-scale farms could make a difference in solving hunger problem. While the supercommittee deliberated about farms, food and spending, inboxes were bulging with suggested priorities.
On Slow Food USA’s wish list was “funding for conservation, new farmers and other programs that support sustainable farmers and ranchers.” Roger Doiron, founder of Kitchen Gardeners International, proposed “using the federal tax code to promote gardening through a $1,000/household garden stimulus package.” My own two cents’ worth came in an address at Maine’s Common Ground Country Fair titled “It’s a Cute Little Movement, but Can It Feed the World?” I’d been provoked by a flood of articles declaring that only large-scale, industrial, biotech farms can save our increasingly overpopulated planet. That small farms and gardens cannot do that has become a mantra, self-replicating its merry way to pseudo-truth. (John McDonnell/THE WASHINGTON POST) - Evidence is piling up that small-scale farms can help solve the world’s hunger problems. Loblaw chief Galen Weston says farmers’ markets pose health risk.
An off-the-cuff remark by Galen Weston at the Canadian Food Summit has enraged the farmers’ markets community and local food lovers.
“Farmers’ markets are great. . . ,” Weston said Tuesday during a speech to about 600 people at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, but added: “One day they’re going to kill some people though.” “I’m just saying that to be dramatic though,” he quickly added. Weston is executive chairman of Loblaw Cos. Ltd, Canada’s largest food retailer, with more than 1,000 stores. He was talking about building a long-term vision for food in Canada and how to capitalize on the demand for local food. Robert Chorney, the executive director of Farmers’ Markets Ontario, had to wait until the next session’s comment period for a chance to speak out. “We strenuously object” to Weston’s remark, he told the delegates. Chorney later added: “What (Weston) said was really saddening. Importance of Food. What Penny De Los Santos saw just as she was about to photograph the single meal she'd traveled thousands of miles over several times zones to capture.
The city's lights went out. “Food is important,” I said to the audience at Cleveland Public Library last Thursday night. It was my first line and it got a laugh. I was surprised and encouraged. When I say that to most groups of Americans, they look at me they way cows look up from their grazing.