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Light Up the Farm with New Haven Farms!
New Haven Farms is having a fundraiser!! This Saturday night, November 10th from 5-7pm at the Edgerton Park Carriage House. Please join us this weekend as we honor Harvey Koizem...
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Read moreFood Summit Success!
New Haven, CT - Will Allen, CEO of Growing Power, has been to many a food summit. Many a local food conference, many small farm fundraisers. He travels around the...
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Read moreChef Jenny Huston's Organic Food and Agr…
Oakland, CA - This week's highlights on organic food news include: US farmers turn to gummy worms, fruit loops to feed cows after corn shortage http://goo.gl/jhTqz Monsanto Seed Paten Case Gets US Supreme...
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Read moreChef Jenny Huston's Organic Food and Agr…
Oakland, CA - Get your news of our weird food world here! This week's highlights on organic food news include: Stay out of the water: A Toxic algae slideshow http://goo.gl/HyTmA The same...
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Read moreOctober 2012 is Food Month!!!
New Haven, CT - October 24 is National Food Day but New Haven is taking it a big step further and is declaring October to be Food Month! Chairwoman Tagan...
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Read moreChef Jenny Huston's Organic Food and Agr…
Oakland, CA: This week's highlights: America: Becoming a Land Without Farmers http://goo.gl/Sf3YR NYT: Room for Debate: Organic Food Worth the Expense? http://goo.gl/LhhH9 Big Organic Joins Monsanto in Fighting Prop 37 http://goo.gl/kXM0w Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s Force...
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Read moreGoat is the New Chicken
Milwaukee, WI - When we sat down to lunch during last week’s Growing Power National and International Small Farm Conference, a woman with a plate of food in her hand...
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Read moreEating Well After the Supermarket Runs O…
Do you have a relationship with the farmer that grows your food? Currently, for most people, the answer to that question is no. They get their food from a supermarket....
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Read moreChef Jenny Huston's Organic Food and Ag …
Oakland, CA - This week highlights on Chef Jenny Huston's Organic Food and Agriculture Update: ‘Food Hubs’ Connect School Districts With Farmers, Why You Need to Eat More Lard, Factory...
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Read moreDoes Your Community Make You Money? It S…
Does your community make you money? When I ask that question, almost everyone says no (not only no, but hell no!). In fact, most people make the assumption that communities shouldn't make...
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Read moreChef Jenny Huston's Organic Food and Agr…
Oakland, CA - This week on Chef Jenny Huston's Organic Food and Agriculture Update: Bhutan Goes 100% Organic, How 40% of Our Food Goes to Waste,and a Leaked Memo Shows EPA Doubts...
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Read moreBook Takes A New Look at Urban Farms Acr…
It was an overcast but hot and humid Sunday July afternoon when 50 volunteers arrived to clear a sizable lot of land at Phoenix Press in New Haven, Connecticut, underneath...
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Read moreChef Jenny Huston's Organic Food and Agr…
Oakland, CA - This week on Chef Jenny Huston's Organic Food and Agriculture Update - Raj Patel's Summer Vacation, $600 a day fine against Philadelphia woman for feeding needy neighborhood kids,...
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Read moreThe Cornucopia Institute Prop 37 Shopper…
Agribusinesses Owning Natural/Organic Brands Betray Customers: Fund Attack on GMO Labeling Proposal in California. By using Cornucopia’s Proposition 37 funding guide, consumers can invest their food dollars in organic and non-GMO...
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Read moreChef Jenny Huston's Organic Food and Agr…
Oakland, CA - This week on Chef Jenny Huston's Organic Food and Agriculture Update - Jealous Bees, Melted Squirrels and Family Heirlooms! Get your news of our weird food world...
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Read moreWill Allen, CEO of Growing Power, to Vis…
New Haven, CT - Will Allen, Founder and CEO of Growing Power and author of The Good Food Revolution: Growing Healthy Food, People, and Communities, will be giving the keynote...
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Read moreAmerica's Underground Economy
Growing your own food is a good thing. Growing your own business for the sake of self-sufficiency is even better. Craig Ballantyne from Early to Rise tells you how to...
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Read moreJoel Salatin: We Are the Solution, as We…
"There is nothing inherently environmentally damaging about human participation. Yes, I admit it and repent in sackcloth and ashes for all of the human devastation that has been caused throughout...
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Read moreCan a Major City Grow All Its Own Food?
Portland, OR - Tim Donovan, farm manager at Project Grow, an urban farm that grows food for local neighborhood CSA members with help from adults with disabilities, shares his views...
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Read moreKeep Fighting the Good Fight Against An …
Here’s a little midweek pick me up. A reminder that the prevailing culture of dependency we find ourselves in, doesn’t always win. This little victory was won by Karl Tricamo of...
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Read moreChef Jenny Huston's Organic Food and Ag …
Another reality check from Chef Jenny Huston, member of the Oakland Food Policy Council, who brings us the latest news on the world of organic food and agriculture. In the news this...
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Read moreMy Backyard is My New Food Supply
I just recently closed on this house here in the lovely and quirky neighborhood of Fair Haven, located within the city of New Haven, just blocks from the Quinnipiac River....
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Read moreCan Participatory Food Make Local Food A…
I love the idea of participatory food. In fact, participatory food may be the way we achieve better and more abundant food in the future.
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Read moreMaking the Most Out of the “Weeds” in Yo…
When a weed not a weed? When its edible. And delicious. Find out how to use purslane as food and medicine:
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Read moreChef Jenny Huston's Organic Food and Ag …
Your Organic Food and Ag Update is here! Chef Jenny Huston from Oakland, California brings you the latest news on the world of organic food and agriculture. This week's news includes:...
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Read moreGrowing Micro Greens and Organic Produce…
Chef Stacey Givens, founder and owner of The Side Yard in Portland, Oregon, and chef at Raptor Ridge Winery in Newberg, talks about growing micro greens and selling them to...
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Read moreImmigrant Nation: Microenterprise Farmin…
How can we develop functioning and sustainable models for training refugee and immigrant growers to utilize their existing farming experience to establish successful small farm businesses? Folks in Des Moines,...
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Read moreThe Rise of Phoenix Pharm
New Haven, CT - To the average observer, the site in the photo might look like an uninhabitable, barren moon-scape vacant lot but to us at New Haven Farms, it’s...
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Read moreChef Jenny Huston's Organic Food and Ag …
Your Organic Food and Ag Update is here! Chef Jenny Huston from Oakland, California brings you the latest news on the world of organic food and agriculture. This week's news includes...
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Read moreBuy Compost and Get Free Hot Water?
Here's a very cool system that I'm currently considering as part of my home's resilient make-over. You might be interested in this too.
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