Worthy Projects
Reclaiming Our Food: How the Grassroots Food Movement is Changing What We Eat
The grassroots food movement consists of thousands of projects across America and beyond, and it continues to grow. In communities of all sizes – urban, suburban, and rural; rich, poor, and middle class; homogeneous and diverse; old and young – we are reclaiming our food.
Learn more about how grassroots food projects are building community and transforming lives in Reclaiming Our Food: How the Grassroots Food Movement is Changing What We Eat.
Read here (BELOW) about other food projects that offer rich lessons and are worthy of attention!
The Bronx kicks off a student-run farmers market with a short video. Worthwhile project teaches students important job skills, offers nutritious tasty food to neighbors, and grows hope.
Learn about these 10 successful farm-to-school programs: Growing Minds, which is featured in my new book, Reclaiming Our Food, is joined by The Boston Public Schools, Ecotrust, the Native Harvest, Vermont FEED, Cornell Farm to School, NH Farm to School, Seven Generations Ahead, REAP and Georgia Organics. From BestCollegesOnline.com
Nevin Cohen and Kubi Ackerman, on Bittman’s NYT Opinion, November 21, 2011: Breaking New Ground: urban agriculture can be greatly expanded if DEP’s green infrastructure program preferentially invested in new urban farms and gardens.
Atlantic Monthly, by Kaid Benfield, November 18, 2011: At Archi’s Acres in California, military veterans can learn organic production methods, farmers market management, and irrigation installation
Virginia Department of Corrections Agribusiness Project website By Christine Gyovai [See Tanya's blog about this.] The Virginia Department of Corrections has created an unusual model for a self-sufficient food supply that is increasingly rare. Inmates enrolled in the DOC’s agribusiness program produce fish, meat, milk, and vegetables to feed the state’s entire inmate population. The program includes the following: Meat and fish: Inmates raise beef cattle, pigs, and fish and operate the department’s processing plants, producing 4 million pounds of meat each year. All the pork, beef, and fresh fish consumed by inmates is produced through the DOC’s agribusiness Read More
For those who are thinking goats must always be penned, whether in a community, or in a mobile farm grazing paddock, Nancy Coonridge, who began Coon Ridge Organic Goat Cheese Dairy in 1982, runs a herd of 70 free-range dairy goats on 300 acres in New Mexico’s western high desert surrounded by piñon and juniper forests. “Most dairy goat producers never give browse a chance,” she told the Stockman Grass Farmer. “They just don’t appreciate what a high quality feed it is and how healthy it is to let their animals get exercise.” She says that, because her free-range goats Read More
