Local Food

Local Produce, National Food Systems

MacArthur genius Majora Carter is driving a new national brand for locally-sourced produce. Could the local food movement become mainstream, and survive going corporate?

9 September 2011 - 7:00am

Solutions

Boosting the Local Economy Through Local Food

Cities across the country are making efforts to encourage people to buy locally and support the local economy. Food is the main target for local boosters.

25 August 2011 - 11:00am

Citiwire

Fast Web and Local Food Key to Chattanooga's Revival

Through a combination of local food initiatives and the installation of a new high-speed fiber optic network, the city of Chattanooga is hoping to continue its trend of recovering from years of industrial decline.

11 July 2011 - 5:00am

Citiwire

Are Local Businesses Making a Comeback?

Styled after Harper's Index, this "Localism Index" suggests that local economies and independent businesses might just be making a comeback.

19 April 2011 - 9:00am

The Nation

From Breadbasket to Food Desert

The rural Midwest produces much of our nation's food supply, and yet small towns in the heartland and around America are increasingly and ironically becoming food deserts - places where citizens have little access to fresh, healthy foods.

25 January 2011 - 5:00am

Grist

Widening Waistlines Weigh on Developing Cities

Cities across the developing world are dealing more with rising obesity rates as urbanization occurs, reports TheCityFix's Jonna McKone.

13 January 2011 - 7:00am

TheCityFix

New Report Proposes Ways to Combat L.A.'s "Food Deserts"

A new report from The Los Angeles Food Policy Task Force calls for the government to take steps to increase accessibility to local, healthy food in urban areas.

6 October 2010 - 1:00pm

Good

Grocery Chains Caught Faking Farmers Markets

The farmers market trend has gotten so popular that West Coast chain Safeway tried setting up some stands of fruits and veggies outside their store with a sign saying "Farmers Market". Locals called them on it.

28 September 2010 - 7:00am

Grist

Hyper-Local Becomes Even More Local

Local food advocates have promoted the idea of only eating food raised within 50 miles of your home. But how about 2 blocks? A Vancouver neighborhood experiments in communal growing.

23 September 2010 - 10:00am

The Vancover Sun

The Local Food Movement Goes Online

Online tools designed to connect local farmers with consumers are helping sustain the local food and urban agriculture movements.

16 September 2010 - 8:00am

Next American City

Could Your Next Tomato Come From A Former Best Buy?

Gene Fredericks wants to turn empty big box stores into hydroponic and aquaponic growing centers using the latest technologies.

2 September 2010 - 10:00am

Grist

214% More Farmers Markets

The U.S. Dept. of Agriculture says that there has been a dramatic increase in the number of farmers markets in the United States, with a 214% increase since 2000.

9 August 2010 - 5:00am

Grist

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Could Local Food Mean the Return of Urban Slaughterhouses?

Patrick Martins, CEO of a sustainable meat company, says that Americans should embrace slaughterhouses in their cities.

18 June 2010 - 10:00am

Grist

Creative Reuse Nets Local Food

What can you do with an old crane factory? Turn it into a fish farm, and a hydroponic produce operation.

17 May 2010 - 12:00pm

Wall Street Journal

Infrastructure the Limiting Factor for Local Food Movement

The local food movement is growing in popularity, but a lack of related agricultural and processing infrastructure is holding back its spread.

31 March 2010 - 8:00am

The New York Times

Public Trees: Landscaping, or Food Source?

An art group called Fallen Fruit promotes the idea of public fruit trees for general consumption by all. But on a trip to Madrid to plant trees, the government refused their intervention, saying that trees were architecture for the city, not food.

3 March 2010 - 1:00pm

GOOD Magazine

Marin County Sustainability Program

Marin County set the mark of having 250 green businesses by 2010. At the end of 2007, the county already counted 245 such businesses. The program also led to the establishment of numerous initiatives aimed at reducing energy usage, encouraging green building and green businesses, and supporting the consumption of locally grown food.

19 February 2010 - 11:59am

Fish: the Future of Urban Farming

Cityscape Farms has developed a new technique for farming fish along with vegetables in combined urban food systems that allows them to farm in developed areas.

29 January 2010 - 10:00am

Good

Small Farming: It Takes A Village

Local food and small farming are part of a growing food trend in the U.S. But, as Steph Larsen writes, the trend is going to need more infrastructure down the supply chain to sustain itself

7 January 2010 - 9:00am

Grist