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Detroit Wants To Save Itself By Turning Urban Areas Back To Farmland

March 11, 2010 Farm/Garden Politics

The Associated Press reports,
Detroit, the very symbol of American industrial might for most of the 20th century, is drawing up a radical renewal plan that calls for turning large swaths of this now-blighted, rusted-out city back into the fields and farmland that existed before the automobile.
Operating on a scale never before attempted in this country, [...]

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Fewer Farms To Feed Bay Area Locavore’s Appetite

March 11, 2010 Farming & Agriculture

Justin Scheck reports in The Wall Street Journal,
Pocket-size farms have sprung up in cities around the Bay Area in recent years, part of a movement to bring consumers closer to the sources of food they buy.
But even as these small farms show up in urban neighborhoods, bringing with them a sense of a local agricultural [...]

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Monsanto’s U.S. Supreme Court Appeal: Could The Fix Already Be In?

March 10, 2010 Environment

We saw what good corporate citizens the US Supreme Court were a few weeks ago when they ruled 5-4 in favor of corporations, giving them the rights of free speech and personhood by allowing them to throw unlimited amounts of money into political campaigns and buy their own personal Congressional Representative or Senator.
Now the Supremes [...]

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Wine May Not Be Friendly To Vegetarians

March 10, 2010 Farm/Garden Politics

Steven Kolpan writes on Salon.com,
One of the biggest problems with the old red-with-meat, white-with-fish wine pairing advice is that it entirely misses the boat on vegetables, and of course wines work beautifully with even vegetarian meals. But before we talk about pairing Syrah with seitan or Albariño with avocados, there’s something you may want to [...]

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Triscuit Crackers Promotes Home Farming Movement

March 10, 2010 Farming & Agriculture

Pay attention the next time you have the late night munchies, reaching for the box of Triscuit crackers and start chowing down without looking closely. Four million packages of Original and Reduced-Fat Triscuit crackers will include cards with basil or dill herb seeds that can be planted directly into the ground.
The new campaign by Triscuit [...]

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Students See Growth Potential Of Aquaponic Tomatoes

March 10, 2010 Aquaponics

Zack Harold writes in the Charleston Daily Mail,
Winter is not a good time for fresh tomato lovers. You either chow down on hard hothouse tomatoes that taste like cardboard, or simply do without. And that last option isn’t much of an option at all.
Barbara Liedl, associate research professor at West Virginia State University, wants to [...]

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IBM Invents Earth-Friendly Plastic Made From Plants

March 10, 2010 Farming & Agriculture

In a paper published in the American Chemical Society journal, Macromolecules, scientists from IBM Research and Stanford University detail discoveries that could lead to the development of new types of biodegradable, bio-compatible plastics. The result of a multi-year research effort, the breakthrough also could lead to a new recycling process that has the potential to [...]

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Three Acre Urban Farm Planned For Skokie

March 9, 2010 Farming & Agriculture

The urban farm movement is happening in large cities like New York, San Francisco, Milwaukee and Detroit. It is also happening in small towns like Skokie, Illinois as Mike Isaacs writes on the Skokie-Review.com,
The Skokie Park District is trying to acquire about three acres of property near Howard Street and the North Shore Channel that [...]

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The Ten Most Inspiring People In Sustainable Food

March 9, 2010 Farm/Garden Politics

Fast Company magazine lists and describes their The Ten Most Inspiring People in Sustainable Food, many of which I have mentioned in posts the past year.  I am sure everyone has their own local list of inspiring people but these are the national ones that Fast Company recognizes.

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What Does Sustainable Agriculture Look Like?

March 9, 2010 Environment

Here are some comments from traditional, conventional farmers who say sustainable farming has been “co-opted” or taken over by the organic movement. Some of their points are valid (such as the packaging one) but if they are still dumping hundreds of pounds of chemicals on their soil, I am sorry, I can’t classify you as [...]

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