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Category Archives: Food Transparency (the issues)
Earthly Eating
Happy Earth Day Everyone! If you really stop and think about it, all the ways that we interact with our food (growing, raising, packaging, distributing, cooking, consuming, composting, digesting, landfilling, and more) have a huge collective impact on our planet. … Continue reading
Post-Crisis Food Security
In the wake of the destruction of the nuclear plant in Japan, there is growing concern over how our food supply might be affected. People are worried about unknowingly eating dangerous amounts of radiation in foods coming from Japan, and … Continue reading
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Tagged food security, japan, japanese food, lindsay partridge, radiation, Real Time Farms
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Have You Met: Jerry Hebron?
This past summer, I decided I wanted to spend more time in Detroit doing some urban gardening. I called up the volunteer coordinator of the Greening of Detroit to find out about volunteer days and she sent me to the … Continue reading
Let’s Swap Seeds
After experiencing the “blizzard” (aka Snow-mageddon, Blizzaster, or Snowhere Near Expectations, depending on your location) that just swept through the eastern half of the US, it’s somewhat difficult to believe that now is the right time of year to start … Continue reading
Young Foodies: Elana Taubman
I met Elana Taubman during our sophomore year at the University of Michigan in Environment 270, taught by Ivette Perfecto. Throughout the semester, Ivette continued to return to a focus on the urban/organic agricultural revolution in Cuba, which she pointed … Continue reading
Young Foodies: Sam Schiebold
As a Graham Sustainability Scholar at the University of Michigan, 20-year-old Sam Schiebold was expected to make a personal sustainability goal, and she made it her goal to eat only locally sourced foods for the year. Since she set her … Continue reading
Young Foodies: Seth Teicher of Roadside Organics
Seth Teicher (see picture), a 24-year-old Michigan grad and DC resident, and his best friend, Nick Weisman, recently started Roadside Organics, a communications firm focused on amplifying and harmonizing voices of leaders in the local food movement. It all started … Continue reading
Young Foodies: Laura Budde
Something that has become very apparent to me recently is the overwhelming number of young people who are devoting their lives to sustainable agriculture and local food movements. Perhaps I am more aware of it because I have been more … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, foodies, laura budde, lindsay partridge, semester at sea, sustainable, WWOOF
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Composting 101
What is composting? “Composting is a process for converting decomposable organic materials into useful stable products” (thanks Wikipedia!). This mean that you can take your kitchen scraps and yard clippings, and turn them into a fertilizer-type soil additive to use … Continue reading
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Tagged compost, composting, food, lindsay jean hard, Real Time Farms
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