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• Shocking developments on the farm

  Do diesel-based farmers dream of electric tractors? 3

  Posted 2 hours, 40 minutes ago by Tom Laskawy

  Tom Laskawy muses on the potential for electric tractors in the coming age of Peak Oil. Read More

• Organic farming has a major part to play in a low-carbon world

  Soil carbon—a blind spot in the debate on carbon 2

  Posted 7 hours, 4 minutes ago by Emma Hockridge

  COP15 looks like it may well be a cop out. The world was disappointed when it became clear Barack Obama would not get climate protection legislation through the U.S. Senate, endangering any meaningful global agreement. But a much earlier cop out came when agriculture failed to make it onto the agenda at all. Read More

• GoodGuide scanner makes healthy food shopping point and click 1

  Posted 2 days, 4 hours ago by Todd Woody

  Thanks to a new barcode scanner app, grocery shoppers can aim their iPhones at 63,000 different food products for details on the health, environmental, and social "performance" of the products and their makers. Read More

• Citizen Martha

  Martha Stewart blisters meat industry in Thanksgiving show 7

  Posted 5 days, 8 hours ago by Tom Philpott

  Martha Stewart arrays her considerable popular appeal against factory meat farming by featuring Food Inc. director Robert Kenner and anti-meat polemicist Jonathan Safran Foer on her Thanksgiving show. Read More

• Oh, SNAP!

  More NYC farmers markets accept food stamps and sales soar 1

  Posted 6 days, 3 hours ago by Tom Laskawy

  The NYT's Cityroom blog offers some hopeful news on getting more healthy food into low-income neighborhoods. Read More

• Infrastructurally unsound

  Grist Exclusive: Will Whole Foods’ new mobile slaughterhouses squeeze small farmers? 10

  Posted 1 week, 3 days ago by Tom Laskawy

  For years, small-scale poultry farmers have had trouble processing their birds for market. Grist has learned that Whole Foods is looking to solve just that problem. But will the retail giant's effort squeeze the very farmers it's designed to help? Read More

• Don't eat the hype

  Ecological farms: the only real way to feed an increasingly hungry world 11

  Posted 1 week, 3 days ago by Debbie Barker

  There are those who would like us to believe that industrialized farming is the only way to feed the earth's growing population. It's simply not true. Read More

• Plate Tectonics

  No to Obama’s agrichemical industry man, yes to Bed-Stuy Farm 3

  Posted 1 week, 3 days ago by Tom Philpott

  This post marks the launch of "Plate Tectonics," a new feature that highlights ways that citizen action can move the food system in more sustainable directions. First task: jamming the revolving door between the agrichemical industry and the Obama administration. Read More

• thanks for nothing

  Global boiling declares war on Thanksgiving 4

  Posted 1 week, 4 days ago by Brad Johnson

  Our increasingly extreme climate is devastating American agriculture. Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, strengthened by global warming, caused $1.6 billion in agriculture damage in Louisiana alone. Now it appears that a Thanksgiving mainstay -- pumpkin pie -- is next on the global boiling hit list. Read More

• Are you faux real?

  A tasting of four meatless “turkeys” for the holiday table 33

  Posted 1 week, 4 days ago by Lou Bendrick

  There are ways to celebrate Thanksgiving that don't involve turkey carnage. Lou Bendrick and her motley band of tasters deliver the goods on four meatless "birds." Read More

• Choice nuggets

  Gourmet’s conscience, Gopnik on cookbooks, and other tasty morsels 5

  Posted 1 week, 4 days ago by Tom Philpott

  Grist's food editor serves up a brief rundown of interesting food/agriculture journalism from around the web. Read More

• Tuna Blues

  So long and thanks for all the fish 47

  Posted 1 week, 6 days ago by Tom Laskawy

  There was some hope recently that the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas, the organization charged with managing the Atlantic tuna fishery, would listen to its own scientists and ban commercial Atlantic bluefin tuna fishing so that the species might survive. Nope. Read More

• Winemakers face climate change with dread 3

  Posted 1 week, 6 days ago by Agence France-Presse

• A parable on the National School Lunch Program 5

  Posted 1 week, 6 days ago by Ann Cooper, Kate Adamick

• Why the USDA has no business overseeing conditions on factory farms, and more 17

  Posted 2 weeks ago by Tom Philpott

• The new wave of urban farming (and fresh food from small spaces!) 1

  Posted 2 weeks, 4 days ago by Makenna Goodman

• Lester Brown and I, diavlogging 5

  Posted 2 weeks, 4 days ago by David Roberts

• Feed the world sustainably by 2050? Yes, we can! 5

  Posted 2 weeks, 5 days ago by Tom Laskawy

• Time for the mainstream media to face the factory farm-swine flu link 23

  Posted 2 weeks, 5 days ago by Tom Philpott

• How the 40 year drop in the minimum wage helped cause obesity 3

  Posted 2 weeks, 6 days ago by Tom Laskawy

• The Copenhagen Conference on food security 7

  Posted 2 weeks, 6 days ago by Lester Brown

• Random Monday thoughts inspired by a throwaway line from Mark Bittman 5

  Posted 3 weeks ago by Tom Philpott

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