Category Archives: Sustainable Food

Reinventing the CSA

By Jane | Published: February 1, 2012
Flexible CSA models are sprouting up around the country. Some, dubbed multi-farm CSAs, offer produce from a network of small farms for more variety. Others let customers choose what and how much goes into their weekly box or use pre-paid credit at the farmers market or online.
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Where lazy shoppers and farmers are friends

By Jane | Published: January 3, 2012
Local Roots in Wooster, Ohio, is a new kind of coop: a hybrid farmers market-grocery store that caters to lazy shoppers and small farmers alike.
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Turning the tide for Louisiana shrimpers

By Jane | Published: December 13, 2011
Smarter Food: Shrimper Lance Nacio is a lesson in self-sufficiency in an industry under siege.
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How to save small farms? In land, we trust.

By Jane | Published: November 1, 2011
Interest in small-scale agriculture has soared over the last decade. But it’s still anything but easy for farmers to get in or stay in the game, not least because farmland itself is disappearing. Land trusts are helping to keep farmland in farmers' hands.
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Got farmers?

By Jane | Published: March 21, 2011
The media likes to divide farmers into two groups: big and small. But in Appalachia, where the series of hills and hollows has prevented many farms from growing to an industrial scale, there's another, more crucial distinction: old and new.
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Edible lessons

By Jane | Published: January 31, 2011
At the Edible Institute in Santa Barbara, there was a clear recognition that food reformers must draw new people into the conversation about developing a healthier food system.
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