Food planning

Planning After Our "Empire of Food"

Tue, 08/03/2010 - 07:01

Recently, a Briton armed with a metal detector uncovered a trove of more than 50,000 Roman coins, which archeologists believe was an ancient farming community's offering to the gods to ensure a bountiful harvest. Our own agricultural practices have moved past any pleas to the gods to incorporate instead an industrial-scale arsenal of petrochemical fertilizers, pesticides and genetic modification.

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The Impossibility of Vertical Farming

Stan Cox and David Van Tassel point out that skyscraper farms will never work as promised because of their inability to provide natural sunlight.

3 May 2010 - 12:00pm

AlterNet

Urban Foragers Find Food in the City

Forage SF promotes the idea of eating uncultivated food found growing naturally, and even sells boxes of "wild food." Reporter Tara Lohan joins a forager, or "freegan", as they collect goodies from the streets.

10 September 2009 - 2:00pm

AlterNet

Farms Finding "New Roots" in Cities

On abandoned lots and in backyards across the country, urban land is being turned over to agriculture as a means of improving food security.

12 August 2009 - 12:00pm

CommonDreams

Top Cities for Local Food

The Huffington Post offers a mouth-watering slide show of the top 10 cities for locavores, and asks readers for suggestions of examples they might have missed [Slideshow]

28 July 2009 - 1:00pm

Huffington Post

Decentralizing, 'Resolarizing' Our Food Systems

Wartime urban gardening and the Obama's White House vegetable garden should be our inspiration in our efforts to wean our food systems off of industrial-scale agriculture, writes Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of Food."

27 April 2009 - 9:00am

OnEarth

Brazilian City's Food Security Innovations End Hunger

As part of a special issue on food, Yes! Magazine profiles the Brazilian city of Belo, which has, by working with farmers and communities, put an end to hunger.

16 March 2009 - 7:00am

Yes! Magazine