Articles tagged: local food news
food & grocery: A neighborhood market with a mission - Cobblestone Farm Market starts May 21
Posted: May 21, 2013Greg Vaclavek of Native Plant Nurseries “Sustainable farms are to today's headlong rush toward global destruction what the monasteries were to the Dark Ages: places to preserve human skills and crafts until some semblance of ... Read more »
food & grocery: Seeley Farm points the way to a new food system in Washtenaw County
Posted: May 14, 2013You wouldn't know it to look in the well-stocked grocery stores, and you might only guess at it when you're driving around on country roads, but even in this very agricultural area, we're not growing ... Read more »
food & grocery: Happiness is a farmer's market every day of the week
Posted: Apr 23, 2013As someone who loves to cook, it's thrilling to have such beautiful and delicious ingredients to use during the darkest days of the year. And even when I have to bundle up like a yeti for the walk over, it makes me happy to have this weekly ritual of stocking the larder that feels meaningful — rather than the soul-crushing alternative of the grocery store. Read more »
food & grocery: Project Grow has your heirloom and 'Ark of Taste' tomato and pepper plants on May 11
Posted: Apr 16, 2013Olga's Yellow Round Chicken, Nebraska Wedding, Cosmonaut Volkov, and Snow White are not titles of fairy tales — they're the names of heirloom tomatoes that Project Grow Community Gardens will be selling at their annual ... Read more »
food & grocery: Making cheese and self-sufficiency at Firesign Family Farm
Posted: Apr 09, 2013Most of us in the U.S. have never and will never in our lives taste the fresh clean dairy flavor of milk the way it comes, unpasteurized and un-homogenized, straight from the cow. Not to ... Read more »
food & grocery: How and when we decide to eradicate hunger
Posted: Apr 02, 2013"49 million people in the U.S. — one in four children — don’t know where their next meal is coming from, despite our having the means to provide nutritious, affordable food for all Americans," starts ... Read more »
food & grocery: Spring CSA Fair on March 24 offers 'speed dating for local food' and chance to meet farmers
Posted: Mar 19, 2013Snow may still blanket the ground, but I have seen a fat robin redbreast hopping around the yard and purple crocus demanding to bloom. I know spring is closing in with its asparagus and tender ... Read more »
food & grocery: Bobby Flay's Ann Arbor visit includes Mani Osteria, University of Michigan
Posted: Feb 18, 2013Bobby Flay continues to be seen around Ann Arbor as he visits the city with his daughter. Read more »
food & grocery: Local options available to sample and learn about cheese, glorious cheese
Posted: Feb 12, 2013"Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality" — Clifton Fadiman One of the only highlights of these dreary days of winter is that it's fondue time of the year. If you love cheese too, how do ... Read more »
food & grocery: 'Changing the Way We Eat' at TEDxManhattan and the UM Sustainable Food Program
Posted: Jan 29, 2013There's a wonderful quote by author Martin Keogh that goes, “When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: if you look at the science about what ... Read more »
food & grocery: Registration for fifth annual HomeGrown Local Food Summit is open
Posted: Jan 22, 2013(Re)Imagining a Fair Food System Friday, Feb. 22, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Morris Lawrence Building at Washtenaw Community College 4800 E. Huron River Drive, Ann Arbor Want to get involved in this area's local food movement? ... Read more »
food & grocery: Building the 'beloved food community' and MLK Day 2013
Posted: Jan 15, 2013Among the food events that have influenced me most profoundly, one milestone was a completely new and unique (at that time) panel discussion and demonstration in 2007 that was part of the MLK Symposium at ... Read more »
food & grocery: Food and Farming Innovation Network Breakfast Forum developing out of the Food System Economic Partnership
Posted: Jan 08, 2013If you're a business owner or technology entrepreneur in this town there are more associations, organizations and networking events than you can shake a stick at to help you grow your company. But if you're ... Read more »
food & grocery: Of carrots and creativity in the local food movement
Posted: Nov 27, 2012"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." — Buckminster Fuller A recent article titled "Carrots are not enough: the limits ... Read more »
food & grocery: Thinking about thanks and giving in 2012
Posted: Nov 20, 2012When we celebrate Thanksgiving we are participating in a ritual that not only has historic significance but that somehow has retained a sacred relevance even through foggy mists of time. While Thanksgiving commemorates an act ... Read more »
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