Sustainability: On Local Food and Community

Posted by Adina One Saturday morning I was tending my booth at The Downtown Ft. Pierce Green Market, and while I was listening to a woman talk about local food it occurred to me that although we all throw the term local food around a whole lot we don’t spend much time exploring what local actually means and [...]

Sustainability: Know Your Farmer Know Your Food

Posted by Adina [/caption]The USDA has launched a new website dedicated to better connecting consumers to their small and mid sized local farmers and ranchers. Know Your Farmer Know Your Food is the website. I have to hope that this is an earnest push toward sustainability by the USDA. Many of us [...]

Tags: Farmers Markets, Know Your Farmer Know Your Food, Michelle Obama, Tom Vilsack, USDA

How No Till Farming Affects Sustainability and The Conventional Farmer

Posted by Adina I met a conventional vegetable farmer at the Green Market where he sets up a booth every Saturday. We have had a few conversations about growing and farming. He tells me he is the fourth generation of sustainable farmers from Indiana, but he sold his land there and bought a piece here in Florida. He works [...]

Food Inc.

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Up You Go!

Posted by Adina In my last post Traditional And Conventional Growing I wrote a little about growing in sustainable ways and The Great Dust Bowl of the 1930’s. I want to write about what happened to the farms and ranches on the great plains states of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and New Mexico in the 1930’s and how that [...]

Tags: Dust Bowl of the 1930's, no till farming, No Till Gardening, Sustainability, uppening soil

Traditional and Conventional Growing

Posted by Adina It wasn’t very long ago that I found out that people who farm with the aid of chemical pesticides and chemical fertilizers call themselves Conventional Farmers. That is good to know. We call ourselves Organic, or Natural which is the word I now lean towards more often. Organic is good, but as with everything else [...]

Tags: Add new tag, Conventional Farming, Natural Farms, Organic Farming, Organic Growing, Sustainability, Sustainable Farming

Food Supply Crisis

Posted by Adina Everything I read in the paper and on the internet, and every trend I see in the grocery store leads me to believe that our food system is about to have an upheaval. I think it will be tough for a while, and we consumers will suffer, but ultimately if we survive the food [...]

Tags: Food Supply Crisis, Good For Children, Grow Food At Home, Share Home Grown Food