Vote First, Eat Later: a critique of film “Food, Inc.”

The Huffington Post July 10, 2009 Vote First, Eat Later (Click here for link to article) by Susanne Freidberg The new documentary “Food, Inc.” is the latest exposé of corporate food that aims to get us mad, disgusted, and running for the farmers’ market. Even viewers who already knew about the sorry state of our […]

NY Times article on Will Allen, of Growing Power

New York Times – July 5, 2009 Like others in the so-called good-food movement, Will Allen, who is 60, asserts that our industrial food system is depleting soil, poisoning water, gobbling fossil fuels and stuffing us with bad calories. Like others, he advocates eating locally grown food. But to Allen, local doesn’t mean a rolling […]

Farmers Markets Create Community Connections

From Colors NW Magazine Farmers Markets Create Community Connections by Nicole Kidder Throughout much of the world, village markets not only play a crucial role in economic development, but they are also the social center of daily life. Although they do not play as important of a role in much of the developed world, farmers […]