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Greg Bowman
The movement to make school food better, Part 2
Finding ways to “menu” more local fresh produce is the happy challenge of innovative school food directors across the country. What small rural districts or even a single big-city system can’t do on their own, a multi-state collaboration of mega-systems with the same bid specifications can. See how energized captains of the cafeteria are learning how to share information with one another to make the most of every step in buying fresher food products.USDA’s organic advisors draw more marks in the sand to guide decisions on products, practices and processes
National Organic Standards Board works from foundation of healthy soil, natural behaviors and whole systems to rule on hydroponics, materials on the national list and biodiversity.
Institute compost powers conversion of USDA’s new organic People’s Garden along National Mall
Despite grumbling in the background by Chemical Ag defenders, Vilsack gives small demonstration plot big symbolic importance.
Should eco-advocates engage agri-biz on getting to sustainability?
No, or yes (conditionally), say organic community leaders looking for fundamental, systemic changes in farming, farm policy and the behavior of ag chemical and food corporations.
Review: The Greenhorns’ Guide for Beginning Farmers
E-guidebook forming online for emerging agriculturists: farmer-to-farmer wisdom-in-the-making meets Web 2.0.
