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I spent Monday with food personnel from the University of Michigan, as they toured local farms in Michigan from which they buy fresh, local food for 15,000 to 20,000 of the U of M students who live in dorms. As the video shows, this group literally went the […]

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A well-researched article by “Consumer Man” Herb Weisbaum on the MSNBC Web site reports that many shoppers whose budgets are being shredded by higher fuel and food prices are saving money by buying fewer organically grown foods than they did before. From the article:
Before the economy went bad, organics were the wonder child of the […]

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Click here to read Jerry Nelson’s account of life at Koinonia today

When Clarence Jordan and his wife Florence founded Koinonia Farm 66 years ago, the United States was a much different place. World War II may have brought us the “greatest generation,” but when these stoic men returned from battle, their silence did not serve […]

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The British newspaper The Guardian has a brief article on this study that shows three-fourths of the rise in food prices around the world comes from growing investments in biofuels, including ethanol in the United States.
Previous reports suggested that biofuels were responsible for only 3% of the rising cost of food.
A friend who is […]

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Vital Veg in Scotland delivers to each CSA customer

One of the knocks on Community-Supported Agriculture is that the model burns up more fuel than traditional food systems. And this means CSAs reputedly produce more CO2, which means CSAs are suspected of contributing more to global warming than regular shopping trips to Kroger.
Ouch. Is that […]

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Sustainable Farmer makes its mark - Sustainable Farmer formally launched last Monday, July 7, and it has been fun watching the hit meter rise and rise even higher. It’s a hit!
Our visitors cover the map in more ways than one. Email from visitors confirms that sustainable farmers and those who plan to join their […]

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When I first heard of this new business in San Francisco, where you hire MyFarm to install and maintain an organic garden in your backyard, something about it made me cringe. Like it or not, what flashed in my mind was a vision of over-privileged elitists unwilling to break a sweat or get dirty themselves.
But […]

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Am I the only one who thinks that the freshness of supermarket food has taken a dramatic decline the past few months?
On July 3, I picked up some mint for a special salad I was making for the picnic the next day. The next morning at 9 a.m., I minced some of the leaves and […]

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This Golden Russet variety, good for eating and for cider, is thought to have been grown in the United States before 1845.

Just a short note to send people to the New York Times article on heirloom apple grower John Kilcherman of Northport, Michigan. It is great to see the Times writing about sustainable agriculture so […]

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