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Winter Farm Conferences By Heidi Lewis The Monterey Peninsula is one of the most beautiful spots in the world, but it wasn’t just the sparkly ocean breeze dancing through the pines that brought a near sell-out crowd to this year’s Eco Farm Conference held February 1-4. It was the exchange of important ideas and sharing [...]
By Cassidy Campbell Mueller of Riverdog Farm in Guinda, courtesy of Capay Valley Farm Shop I bet you’ve heard it before, the big 4 letters so important to farmers, food processors, and eaters: USDA, or the United States Department of Agriculture, which is responsible for the federal government’s policies on agriculture and food. You would [...]
By Pia Hinckle While damage varied from state to state and even within the same county, Tropical Storm Irene hit many farms from North Carolina to Vermont hard. Growers reported everything from flooded fields and broken trees to collapsed sheds and damaged fruit. Unrepaired roads, washed out bridges and power outages still occurring in some [...]
High Line gets high marks By Pia Hinckle New York has become a leader in urban green renewal. On a visit in June, I found that most of Broadway is now a bicycle path, Times Square is a pedestrian mall, and on the West Side, an abandoned elevated train track has become a garden. The [...]
House cuts will hurt farmers By Judith Redmond, courtesy of Capay Valley Farm Shop On June 17th, the House of Representatives passed its proposal for fiscal year 2012 agriculture spending. In the agricultural ‘discretionary’ budget, the House voted to cut nearly $3 billion from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the FDA. Combined with [...]
New Federal Dietary Guidelines Released Every five years the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Agriculture update their guidelines for healthy eating. The 2010 dietary guidelines, released at the end of January 2011, offer more of the same advice as past ones: drink water instead of soda, cut back on [...]
Obituary Jack LaLanne was a typical teenager. He ate fast food and candy, loved soda pop, had acne, and didn’t exercise much. But at age 15 his mother took him to hear a lecture by health food pioneer Paul Bragg. Bragg asked LaLanne what he had eaten in the last 24 hours. After hearing “cakes, [...]
On January 4, 2011, President Obama signed into law the $1.4 billion Food Safety and Modernization Act, the most sweeping overhaul of the nation’s food industry in 70 years. The law will give the Food and Drug Administration sweeping new powers to order food recalls, increase inspections and recordkeeping, and institute new food safety protocols [...]
The U.S. Senate passed The Food Safety and Modernization Act (S. 510) on November 30th, the most sweeping overhaul of food safety regulations of the century, spurred by food-borne illness outbreaks during the past decade. If it becomes law, the Food & Drug Administration’s power and oversight of food and farm production would increase nationally [...]
West Coast customers – enjoy locally produced heirloom fruit, farm crafted specialty foods and a special “Do It Yourself” Slow Food project in this unique monthly offering. SlowFood Victory Garden Crate Learn more and order at www.fruitguys.com/slowfood. The FruitGuys have partnered with Slow Food San Francisco in a fundraising project to benefit the Schoolyard Gardens [...]
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