Cultivating community in Ohio: Local Roots crops get sweeter in winter
Three months have passed since my last update on Local Roots Market in Wooster, Ohio. Back then, were on the cusp of opening at last. What’s happened in the meantime? A lot . Following the close of the Downtown Farmers Market at the end of October, Local Roots Market opened as an indoor farmers market on November 7 with a roomful of tables for local produce and baked goods as well as individual freezers for producers’ meats. Customers kept the market humming with enthusiasm and good energy as they visited with farmers and bought their weekly supplies of food. Each week we had more people express interest in becoming members, and each week we found more producers setting up shop. Our film series in …
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Dairy runoff in our tap water
[Health]Big dairies, big problems: Reporter Charles Duhigg of the New York Times has been on the rampage these past few weeks with a series of great articles highlighting the need for better government regulation, oversight and enforcement of clean water laws. The latest installment covers the dairy industry in Wisconsin and elsewhere, where mega-feedlots...
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Gearing up to reform the Child Nutrition Act
[Food & Drink]We are what we eat. Good nutrition may begin at home, but nutritional education and sustainable habits are formed fast at school, between friends and lunch and breakfast menus. School cafeterias are where children get fed what they are offered and have a greater freedom of choice about what goes in their mouths- away from parental prying eyes!
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What does an Obama win mean for the U.S. food supply?
[Food & Drink]We heard plenty of talk about Wall Street and Main Street. We heard about $150,000 wardrobes, Joe the Plumber, Bill Ayers, socialism, and cynicism. But one thing we didn’t hear much about in this election season was food and farms.
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High fructose corn syrup campaign leaves a sour taste
[Food & Drink]Last month the Corn Refiners Association launched a multimillion-dollar media campaign to defend high fructose corn syrup as a “quality” sweetener, in the face of mounting public perception that this cheap, ubiquitous compound has played a not-so-sweet role in making Americans chunky and sick.
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Rebuilding itself, New Orleans is reconstructing food commun
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