Sustainable Food and Farming News

Does the USDA Even Care About the Bee Crisis?
The Daily Green - May 6, 2008
Awhile back I was contacted by Paul Bedard, a reporter for US News and World Report magazine. He was asking about Colony Collapse Disorder because he was doing a story on it for his magazine.

Topics:  Bees   

Greenhouse teaches students about farms
Battleboro Reformer - May 6, 2008
This is one project where the faculty at Dummerston Middle School actually want the students to get their hands dirty. The school finished putting the greenhouse over the garden beds, to ensure...

Farmers Deliver Produce
WHO TV - Des Moines, IA - May 6, 2008
Central Iowans are by-passing the grocery store this spring and heading straight to the source. The concept is known as community supported agriculture.

Topics:  LocalHarvest    CSA   

Buzz grows over beekeeping
The Boston Globe - May 6, 2008
All morning one cool, drizzly April Sunday, cars pull up to the Reseska Apiaries warehouse in Holliston - one driven by an attorney, one carrying a plumber and a machinist, another a yoga studio owner

Topics:  Bees   

Eat locally, survive globally
TheStar.com - Apr 29, 2008
Our mothers always told us to eat our greens. Today, the injunction should be to eat green.

The Global Food Crisis - in a Nutshell
Loulies - Apr 29, 2008
he Economist?s food-price index is the highest it?s been since 1845; it increased 30 percent in 2007 alone. It appears that the lengthy era of falling food prices may have reached the end.

Topics:  Food Security   

Food for Thought on Earth Day
Inter Press Service / Common Dreams - Apr 22, 2008
As Earth Day celebrations kicked off around the world last weekend, the event has evolved from teach-ins on park lawns into a multi-day media extravaganza replete with corporate sponsorship.

Farm bill complicates plight of honeybees
SFGate - Apr 22, 2008
he hand of nature, usually unseen and unappreciated, is coming down hard on California agriculture. The honeybees that pollinate its $21 billion bounty of almonds, avocados, berries, melons and...

Topics:  Bees   

Local foods make for healthful eats
The Ranger - Apr 22, 2008
Shopping at the local farmer's markets can help save the environment. Local foods are fresher and more nutritious than those found in the supermarkets and are good for the local economy...

Topics:  Buy Local    LocalHarvest   

Report: Bill could bring honeybee disaster
United Press International - Apr 22, 2008
The farm bill being negotiated in the U.S. Congress could speed the extinction of honeybees and other pollinators by encouraging crops in areas now wild.

Topics:  Bees