Stories We’re Following

Recent:

• Harvey devastates Gulf Coast Agriculture

• Irma wipes out southeast crops at harvest time

• FDA instructs farmers to destroy crops

• What’s old is what’s new on the Yucatan Peninsula: Learn about the Mayan’s return to farming methods that increase their community’s resilience in a changing world.

• Indianans Know Farming:  The Pence Family embraces pollinators

• The American Society of Microbiology sends a letter to the Senatein response to the news that Sam Clovis will be nominated for the position of Undersecretary of Research, Education, and Economics at  the USDA. 

Older Articles

• How to feed 10,000 people from food grown on 3 acres in the city. Read the story from The Splendid Table here!

• Is your grass fed beef for real? Treasure Valley Food Coalition really doesn’t like food fraud.  We hope all our followers will take an active role in questioning what they eat.  Read the story here!

• The USDA has begun limiting their use of the words “Climate Change”. We watched “An Inconvenient Truth” and doesn’t the recent storm in Houston sound awfully close to what Al Gore predicted in that movie?  If you think so read on and maybe reach out and let the USDA know you don’t approve.  Read here!

• How Farmers Markets help the local economy!

• The USDA is now censoring the term “Climate Change“

• Who really owns American Farmland?

• Why beefsteak tomatoes are so big!

• A study explains why the modern tomato tastes like cardboard- Read the story here

• Meat industry blamed for largest ever “dead zone” in Gulf of Mexico-Read the story in the Guardian 

• The Poison Papers catalogue the secret concerns of industry and regulators over the hazards of pesticidesand other chemicals and their efforts to conceal those concerns- Read the story here

• Farmers Take Out Millions In Loans To Raise Chickens For Big-Box Retailers. Read full story

• This N.J. town’s preserved farmland is almost the size of Manhattan Read full story

• Massachusetts funds State Apiary and new pollinator gardens at State facilities: Read full story

• Amazon one of the world’s largest online shopping sites has just purchased Whole Foods.  How did this happen and how will this play out?  Read more here.

• The Amazon purchase will challenge Jeff Bezos to find a way to grow organic farm production. Growth has been flat since 2008.  Read more here

• California just announced it would list glyphosate as a carcinogen!  Sometimes there’s good news. Click here for the full article.

• Despite many challenges, grassfed beef could go mainstream. Full article here

• Trump’s crackdown on immigration is terrible news for anyone who eats food.  Read the story in Mother Jones here.