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Maryland Food System Map | Center for a Livable Future
This is one of my favorite food system sites . Wouldn’t it be great if each state and every regional projects collected and shared this type of visual data? Note from the organizers: Map updates...
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National 2013 Food Hub Survey-NFGN
Authored by Michigan State University Center for Regional Food Systems & The Wallace Center at Winrock International From the Executive Summary: Findings from the survey showed that food hubs...
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Nashville’s beloved farmers market faces some tough rows to hoe | City Limits...
This article is from the beginning of the year: “The idea of bringing in a private company to run the operation comes less than a year after a review from Metro’s finance department that was critical...
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The 25% shift
I am just finishing up a commentary for an online magazine in my original home of Cleveland, Ohio and to remember some details, I pulled out the Michael Shuman report “The 25% Shift: The Benefits of...
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Better Eats for All | Belt Magazine | Dispatches From The Rust Belt
A commentary from yours truly on the food system found in my first hometown of Cleveland Ohio. Whenever I return to it, I am struck by the unusual underpinnings of their food work, being as it is...
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Audio of Moscow (Idaho) public meeting about farmers market rules
A fascinating view of the internal life of a market community. The FM rule discussion starts on the audio at 15:00 minutes into the recording: link to audio Definition of local (100-mile limit...
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TNOC Roundtable: The sky is the limit for urban agriculture. Or is it?
I am honored to be a member of this roundtable, and to be a new contributor to The Nature of Cities site. This topic is a bit difficult for me as I believe in cities and in their need to expand every...
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Eating seven or more portions of fruit and vegetables a day reduces your risk...
Eating seven or more portions of fruit and vegetables a day reduces your risk of death by 42 percent — ScienceDaily. Tagged: fruits and vegetable portions, USDA
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FMPP awards for 2014
Scrolling down through the list of FMPP successful proposals shows the ingenious and unique approaches that farmers markets and farmer advocates are employing across the U.S. to further community food...
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Open source gleaning model helps NC market farmers address hunger issues
I had the great pleasure to become acquainted in 2012 with this innovative program that is closely linked to the North Carolina farmers markets and individual farmers to get food flowing to more...
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Evergreen Cooperatives: The Cleveland Model
Gar Alperovitz is a historian, political economist, activist, and writer. He has written many books, including The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb, and, more recently, What Then Must We Do? Straight...
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“Rural culture coming down…”
Mary Berry of The Berry Center: The urban excitement around local food is not matched by farmers in the countryside. This is a serious debit and an economic one. We have several problems, not the least...
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Home Place Pastures to Become USDA Processing Plant in Mississippi
If you read the From 0 to 35 in Mississippi post here last fall, you know that the good food revolution in my neighboring state has been lacking a few important items to help build their capacity such...
View ArticleSustainability while Shopping
The Hartman Group’s research has found that 87% of consumers are inside what we refer to as the World of Sustainability. Those inside the world are impacted in their attitudes and behaviors by...
View ArticleFarmers Markets Need Support to Collect and Use Data
The reason for FMC to put effort into this type of academic article is to make sure that researchers see the opportunity to have market operators be part of the process around what data is collected...
View Article2019 for farmers markets
Building this type of partnership with vendors also levels the field, as data becomes the lingua franca of market day decision-making rather than those being (or seeming to be) made willy-nilly or...
View Article“Between and within”
The link below is to a post from Richard Florida on examining rural-urban tropes that are used ad nauseum often in lieu of updated facts. It is my opinion that with this type of analysis (often done...
View Articlelocal resiliency shouldn’t be the goal
At the end of this second year of the COVID era, I’ve been thinking a great deal about the thousands of market leaders, tens of thousands of producers, and the hundreds of thousands of our neighbors...
View ArticleKuni can help our markets
Much of what Kuni is extolling we are seeing in some extraordinary US farmers markets and food work, most often led by Black, persons of color, and indigenous leaders. No surprise to me that what...
View ArticleLondon to Berea: a fall farmers market story
Leaving my London KY hotel while its still dark, I head north to Berea. As always, I’m gonna arrive too early even for the farmers market and for that reason (but also to soak up the local) I choose...
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