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Solving the apartment dweller's dilemma Urban gardening for the rest of us	Ashley Braun	13 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Photo: lucy and her dent About a quarter of the U.S. population lives in apartments or condos, according to the 2000 census [PDF], and most Americans will live in one or the other at some point in their lives. But apartment dwellers don't have to miss out on the joys of growing their own food. You don't need a yard to garden. All you need are some pots. 'Container gardening' makes it possible for just about anyone to grow their own tasty, fre ...
Topics: food, gardening, local food, organic food (all these topics)

Dispatches From the Fields: Whatever happened to organic? The limits of consumption-based food movements	Stephanie Paige Ogburn	11 Aug 2008	Gristmill
In 'Dispatches From the Fields,' Ariane Lotti and Stephanie Ogburn, who are working on small farms in Iowa and Colorado this season, share their thoughts on producing real food in the midst of America's agro-industrial landscape. This Olathe Sweet Corn is regionally renowned, entirely local, and grown entirely conventionally and industrially, meaning farmers use large amounts of water, fertilizer, and pesticides. Its locality has become a selli ...
Topics: agriculture, farmers markets, food, industrial ag, local food, organic food (all these topics)

Whole in the Middle Whole Foods tries to shake its elitist reputation		04 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 4:11 PM on 04 Aug 2008 Whole Foods Market, with its gleaming displays of organic produce, antibiotic-free meat, and vegan baked goods, has long branded itself as a high-quality grocery retailer -- thus earning the nickname Whole Paycheck and a reputation for elitism. But with the economy sagging -- bringing with it, according to some analysts, consumer interest in organic food -- Whole Foods is aiming to tout itself ...
Topics: advertising, business, economy, food, greenish companies, news, organic food, shopping (all these topics)

The Hurley bird gets the farm Liz Hurley to star in reality show about her organic farm	Sarah van Schagen	29 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Actress-turned-organic-advocate Liz Hurley will soon star in a reality show about life on her organic farm in the U.K. and the launch of her organic brand: Hurley Meat. Says Hurley, 'People always imagine me with perfect hair, but that's not who I am.' Hm ... are you sure that's how they imagine you?
Topics: celebrity, green living, organic food, TV, United Kingdom (all these topics)

'Lazy locavores,' revisited The WSJ reports on lavish second-home gardens	Tom Philpott	25 Jul 2008	Gristmill
I got a bit of flack for my post on 'lazy locavores' earlier this week. Riffing off of a New York Times 'trend' piece, I questioned the practice of 'outsourcing one's veggie patch' -- paying someone to install, tend, and harvest a home veggie garden. I accused folks who use such services of having a 'hyper-consumerist' take on local food -- of wanting the trappings and status of a home garden without getting their hands dirty. Several people -- including energy blog ...
Topics: food, gardening, green living, local food, organic food (all these topics)

Checkout Line: Farmers market etiquette How to ask hard questions of the people who grow your food	Lou Bendrick	23 Jul 2008	Gristmill
In Checkout Line, Lou Bendrick cooks up answers to reader questions about how to green their food choices and other diet-related quandaries. Lettuce know what food worries keep you up at night. What to do when it's not so spelled out for you? Photo: Jennifer Dickert Dear Checkout Line, Any suggestions on how to ask local farmers (or the person selling the goods at the farmers' market who might not be the actual grower) if the produce was treated with Sev ...
Topics: advice, Checkout Line, farmers markets, food, local food, organic food (all these topics)

Dispatches From the Fields: The 'far' in farmers markets For some farmers, distant markets offer the best prices	Stephanie Paige Ogburn	14 Jul 2008	Gristmill
In 'Dispatches From the Fields,' Ariane Lotti and Stephanie Ogburn, who are working on small farms in Iowa and Colorado this season, share their thoughts on producing real food in the midst of America's agro-industrial landscape. I don't know how many different farmers markets readers have the opportunity to attend within one area. As a consumer, it seems reasonable to pick one and stick with it. But as a farmer, it's a good idea to sell at multiple markets; ...
Topics: agriculture, Colorado, economy, farmers markets, food, organic food (all these topics)

Too much of a good thing The toll of agriculture and hundred-year rains on Wisconsin's farmland	Jim Goodman	11 Jul 2008	Gristmill
We are, for better or worse, part of the land we live on. We can choose to extract as much as possible from the earth around us, the 'Manifest Destiny' (or nature's in my way) line of thinking. Or we can take as little as necessary and leave as small a trace as possible, the 'Seventh Generation' concept of the Native American peoples. If farming well were easy and profitable, everyone would be doing it. Farming is never easy, no matter how you go about it, but at ...
Topics: agriculture, food, organic food, severe weather, sustainable ag, Wisconsin (all these topics)

Checkout Line: Nuts to you The unshelled story on the nutty side of our food supply	Lou Bendrick	09 Jul 2008	Gristmill
This post marks the launch of our new food-advice column Checkout Line, by talented, funny, and food-obsessed Lou Bendrick. Ever get confused in the supermarket, wondering which 'all-natural' label is legit? Ever wonder what you'd actually say to a farmer at a farmers market, or whether organic is better than local, or how you can stretch your dollar when you're buying for the whole family? Lettuce know what food worries keep you up at night by writing us at groceries ...
Topics: advice, Checkout Line, food, organic food (all these topics)

Milking sustainability Sustainability goals for the U.S. dairy industry	Meredith Niles	03 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Last week, we witnessed the dairy industry hold their first ever Sustainability Summit for U.S. Dairy. The week long conference culminated in the announcement of an industry-wide commitment and action plan to reduce milk's 'carbon footprint' while simultaneously increasing business value (translation: profit) from farm to consumer. But how truly 'green' are their efforts? Sustainability -- ah, it sounds so good doesn't it? In recent years it has become the buzz ...
Topics: business, climate, food, greenhouse-gas emissions, organic food (all these topics)

What I saw at the Summit Thoughts from the big organic confab in Boulder	Tom Philpott	01 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Attending last week's Organic Summit, held within the tasteful confines of the St. Julien Hotel and Spa in Boulder, was a very, well, organic experience. It started with the hotel itself. The St. Julien, a human-scale building right in downtown Boulder, exudes calm. The lobby, a light, airy space overlooking a sun-dappled garden with mountain views behind, practically echoes with a low and relaxing ohhhmmm. As far as accommodations, I get drowsy just thinking about the ...
Topics: greening biz operations, sustainable ag, organic food, food, business (all these topics)

Not Just for White People Anymore How the organic movement can regain its relevance	Tom Philpott	27 Jun 2008	Victual Reality
Buying organic makes you feel good ... but does it make you think? On June 25, I spoke at the Organic Summit in Boulder, Colo., to an audience consisting largely of people who work in the organic food industry. This column is an adapted version of my talk. In his wildly popular satirical blog Stuff White People Like, the Canadian writer Christian Lander recently made some tart observat ...
Topics: agriculture, food, organic food, shopping, sustainable ag, Victual Reality (all these topics)

Nitrogen madness The costs of unsustainable agriculture	Erik Hoffner	25 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Here's a guest post from Rodale Institute CEO Tim LaSalle. ----- Tom Philpott is right to highlight the tremendous ecological debt we've built up by depending on nitrogen fertilizer to run our crop production system. Depending on mined and fossil-fuel produced nitrogen for our food is no more sustainable than depending on peaking oil and mountain-top removed coal for our energy. There's no more 'cheap' food and fuel, because, really, there never was. The huge i ...
Topics: agriculture, food, industrial ag, organic food, sustainable ag (all these topics)

Pyongyang syndrome Agriculture and energy solutions to avoid the fate of North Korea	Sharon Astyk	24 Jun 2008	Gristmill
John Feffer has a good article over at Asia Times Online. It points out the deep danger we're in -- how teetery both the world and America's food and energy systems are. It is well worth a read, particularly because of its clear articulation of the bind we're in -- the strategies we've used in the past to get out of disaster will only accelerate collapse in the long-term.. The tools we're using to get more food out of the ground take food from the future. The ana ...
Topics: agriculture, biofuels, energy, North Korea, organic food (all these topics)

Me, at the Organic Summit What should I ask -- or tell -- the (organic-cotton) suits at a fancy Colorado confab this week?	Tom Philpott	23 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Later this week, I'll be reporting from the Organic Summit in Boulder. Judging from the attendees list on the homepage, the summit brings together the shakers and movers behind what Michael Pollan has called 'industrial organic' -- the large-scale producers and processors that stock the shelves at Whole Foods and the organic sections at Wal-Mart, Safeway, etc. But the organizers seem intent on shaking things up. The speakers list ranges from Brahm Ahmadi of Oakland' ...
Topics: consumerism, food, green living, industrial ag, organic food (all these topics)

Attack of the killer tomatoes, national edition Tomato salmonella scare hits the big time	Tom Philpott	11 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Insert everything I said in this post, except now the salmonella-tainted tomato scare has gone nationwide, whereas before, the FDA had been limiting its warning to Texas and New Mexico.Here is Associated Press: Federal officials hunted for the source of a salmonella outbreak in Connecticut and 16 other states linked to three types of raw tomatoes, while the list of supermarkets and restaurants yanking those varieties from shelves and menus grew. Meanwhile, ...
Topics: agriculture, food, industrial ag, messaging, organic food (all these topics)

Cuba's urban-ag miracle The U.S. media discover how food production works without access to cheap oil	Tom Philpott	10 Jun 2008	Gristmill
The story is legendary in peak-oil circles: Twenty years ago, the Soviet Union pulled the plug on Cuba's cheap-energy, cheap-food era. (See Bill McKibben's feature piece on the subject here.) No longer would the fading superpower accept the tiny island nation's sugar as payment for crude oil. From then on, only hard currency would do. It also halted food aid. In short order, gas and food prices spiked and people's living standards tumbled. Next, a widespread s ...
Topics: agriculture, Cuba, food, industrial ag, organic food (all these topics)

Grass-fed milk: better for you So says U.K. study	Tom Philpott	30 May 2008	Gristmill
Another study has confirmed that organic milk, from cows that feed on pasture, delivers significantly more nutrition than feedlot milk. The U.K. Independent reports that grass-fed cows offer '60 per cent higher levels of conjugated linoleic acid (CLA9), which has been linked to a reduced risk of cancer.' Omega-3 fatty acids (39 percent higher) and vitamin E (33 percent higher) are also more abundant in milk from grass-fed cows. Unlike in the U.S., U.K. organic standards ...
Topics: agriculture, Department of Agriculture, food, health, organic food (all these topics)

Michigan WIC whacks organic Evidently, women, infants, and children in need don't deserve organic	Tom Philpott	28 May 2008	Gristmill
The Women, Infants, and Children program provides food aid to 'low-income pregnant, breastfeeding, and non-breastfeeding postpartum women, and to infants and children up to age five who are found to be at nutritional risk,' according to the USDA website. The federal government funds the program through grants to states, which then decide how to allocate the cash. Evidently, in Michigan -- a state undergoing severe economic strain -- some bureaucrats have bought into ...
Topics: environmental justice, food, green living, health, Michigan, organic food, parenting, shopping (all these topics)

Confirmed it through the grapevine Brangelina drink to life on an organic vineyard	Sarah van Schagen	27 May 2008	Gristmill
Back in August, we hinted at the possibility that Brad and Ange were looking to sample some eco-friendly wineries. But now we've heard official word (through the grapevine) that they've chosen a lovely organic variety in the south of France. The Jolie-Pitts have purchased Ch�teau Miraval, a 1,000-acre property featuring two swimming pools, two gyms, 20 fountains, a lake, a moat, and a lush organic vineyard. The $60 million estate also includes 35 bedrooms -- ...
Topics: celebrity, food, France, gossip, green living, organic food (all these topics)

The new normal When will the American public get snobby already?	David Roberts	27 May 2008	Gristmill
Sigh. The long weekend is over and it's time to work again. I don't really feel like it, though, so let me tell you a story. For reasons too boring to get into, yesterday I ended up in a grocery store -- a QFC, part of Kroger's empire -- for a few things. I haven't been to what I'd guess you call an 'ordinary' grocery store for quite a while. It started when I couldn't find organic grapes. Then no organic green beans. Then I tried to find some shampoo for my kids an ...
Topics: food, green products, health, organic food, shopping (all these topics)

Organically killed Are 'organic pesticides' the way forward for organic agriculture?	Tom Philpott	23 May 2008	Gristmill
How are proponents of regenerative agriculture supposed to respond to news like this? Green pesticide and herbicide developer Marrone Organic Innovations is nearly done raising $7 million in a second round of funding, CEO Pamela Marrone said Wednesday. Wow, somebody's investing in organic agriculture -- millions, no less. That's news. But does it have to involve pesticides?Pesticides aren't just problematic because they're derived synthetically. They're also troubli ...
Topics: agriculture, Big Ag, health, industrial ag, organic food, toxics (all these topics)

Certified organic, fair-trade free riders If you support the standards but not the certifiers, then what?	JMG	22 May 2008	Gristmill
At my local Saturday farmers market, I stopped to buy some coffee at the local roaster's booth. I was eying the wares when I noticed that the spendy bags of coffee ($9 for 12 oz.) labeled 'Fair Trade' didn't have the any independent certification of that fact. I asked the guy behind the booth, and he said, 'Well, it is fair trade coffee, and the owners pay the fair trade price, but they don't want to pay for the label mark because it just pays people here in the U.S. -- ...
Topics: agriculture, farmers markets, food, green living, organic food, shopping (all these topics)

Not-so-organic salmon USDA considers first-ever organic standards for farmed fish	Andrew Sharpless	20 May 2008	Gristmill
You may have seen 'organic salmon' on the menu in your favorite seafood restaurant or counter. Guess what? It's not organic, according to the USDA. It turns out that some fishmongers have been promoting their fish as organic with definitions of their own. This week, a USDA advisory panel will consider a key element of the country's first-ever standards for 'organic' farmed fish, including salmon. The surprising news is that this standard -- if adopted -- could ...
Topics: aquaculture, Department of Agriculture, food, oceans, organic food, salmon (all these topics)

Dairy, Dairy, Quite Contrary Why that organic label on your milk doesn't tell the whole story	Tom Philpott	16 May 2008	Victual Reality
Tastes great, but who's paying the health-care bills? As a writer, one of my goals is to demystify farming for non-farmers -- to remind people that their food comes from somewhere, grown by someone, often drawing down finite resources. Less than 2 percent of Americans farm, yet all of us eat. Whether you're scarfing a Whopper or savoring a farmers' market peach, food has a hi ...
Topics: agriculture, economy, food, organic food, sustainable ag, Victual Reality (all these topics)

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