Local And Just

I visited Tyler Jones of Afton Field Farm near Corvallis (website……..blog). We talked about food buying clubs/groups and it brought me back to some previous ideas I had around starting one such club back in Manitoba with members of the Harvest Moon Local Food Initiative. Check out this video of Tyler talking about his clubs/groups. Farmers [...]

I believe that, as much as possible, the crops grown and animals raised on a farm should be thought of as food not commodity. So, naturally, I’m interested in how we move towards having more farmers/ranchers transition into direct relationships with eaters where food is grown and moved into the hands of eaters without being [...]

This post is a copy of the Universtiy of Manitoba Press release posted at www.umanitoba.ca on Thursday, February 4, 2010 2:10 PM Securing adequate food is something most of us take for granted. We may be more familiar with the struggle to keep from overindulging than the struggle for access. But the reality is more than [...]

Check out the newest F2F video short created with and for the Friends of Family Farmers in Oregon. I’ve been in Oregon for almost nine months now and have learned a great deal about direct farm marketing and local food in this part of the continent. Along the way, I have found myself in the [...]

By Colin Anderson – this post is syndicated from www.farmtoforkresearch.com I stumbled across a link to the United States Department of Agriculture’s YouTube site the other day. To my surprise, they had a channel dedicated to a new initiative launched earlier this year entitled “know your farmer, know your food”.  Click for YouTube channel. Ostensibly, the [...]

 USC Canada has released a new video short describing “the story of food”. The video largely outlines the decline of biodiversity in mainstream/industrial agro-food production systems. It touches on the downside of genetically modified crops, the plight of the family farm, climate change and hunger/obesity. The short video ends by encouraging consumers to ‘buy local, [...]