In the spring of 2018, Brian Adesso — Menasha (Wisconsin) Joint School District’s Director of Business Services — joined several district educators and staff on a visit to a small locally-owned business, Fork Farms. “I absolutely loved it!” said Brian, […]
Whole Kids Foundation, PACT,and Indiegogo are teaming up to help build urban sustainable gardens across the U.S. The “Urban Gardens Across America” campaign enables donors to fund the garden projects of their choice through the crowd-funding platform Indiegogo. Each garden will have its […]
Will Allen, son of a sharecropper, former professional basketball player, ex-corporate sales leader and now farmer, has become recognized as among the preeminent thinkers of our time on agriculture and food policy. The founder and CEO of Growing Power Inc., […]
In 1979 Pete and Alice Eschelman were neighbors in Greenwich Village in New York City.
As an employer of 94,000 people in over 100 countries around the world, Microsoft is keenly aware that the dining choices offered at its campuses can be a positive part of their effort to be a more sustainable business. At […]
University of Oregon dining offers Farm to Fork, an all local meal, in Carson and Barnhart dining to raise awareness of local business. The dinner event took place November 7, 2012. See the video
Agriculture isn’t just about sowing the land; it’s about finding solutions to modern problems facing our food supply. With farmland shrinking and a hungry population growing, what’s being done to ensure an abundant food supply that will be healthier, last […]
On a rooftop farm in Brooklyn one sunny afternoon, dozens of tomato plants heavy with fruit swayed in the wind, a farmer stooped over rows of dandelion greens and the customers kept coming. They climbed through the door to the […]
In California, legislative resolutions tend to reflect universal sentiments: We embrace literacy. We disavow dating violence. But when Sacramento Assemblyman Roger Dickinson introduced a resolution to dub September Food Literacy Awareness Month, the details of the motion set off a […]
In elementary school, I may not have understood the full social and economic ramifications of my family’s decision to participate in community-supported agriculture (CSA), but I certainly understood the excitement and childhood delight that came from opening a box filled […]