Tag Archive: food

Atlanta Home To Largest Food Forest In The U.S.

Catherine Sherriffs

Some initiatives deserve to be applauded, and Atlanta’s giant food forest is one of them. The seven-acre plot is the largest such space in all of the United States! The project aims to improve food security for the local community by growing fresh fruit, herbs, and nuts.  What exactly is a food forest? What makes…

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#StoptheWaste Campaign Tackles Food Waste And Hunger

Celebrity chef Andrew Zimmern has created a recipe for a Thai Coconut Salmon Soup that uses salmon heads and other pieces of fish you would usually throw away. It’s his way of helping to fight the problem of food waste and world hunger. Zimmern takes parts of the fish that typically never make it onto…
October 10, 2019
Catherine Sherriffs

Vertical Farming the Ocean

One man’s amazing approach to vertical farming could replace fossil fuels, GMO biofuel crops, create new industry for people who’s livelihood was decimated by big business, and providelocally-grown food produced with extremely sustainable methods. He’s growing native species in an open system farm that uses no soil or growth media, no fertilizers or nutrients, no grow lighting or environmental control, because…
April 2, 2016
Tammy Clayton

Greenwashing Is Everywhere

Something else that we’re going to see more and more in the future is called greenwashing. I looked it up in the dictionary, and it says: “greenwash – a superficial or insincere display of concern for the environment that is shown by an organization.” Sounds like something you’re not stupid enough to fall for right?…
February 15, 2016
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Inmates & Aquaponics

Prison gardens have become pretty common, and truth be known, prison farms have been around for centuries. Many state and county correctional systems find growing food and flowers offer rehabilitative benefits for inmates, not to mention teaching them job skills, while the produce helps to keep penal facility operation costs down, and can even supply…
October 7, 2015
Callie

Save Seed Sharing Campaign

Last summer when Pennsylvannia’s Department of Agriculture shut down the seed library at the Mechanicsville Public Library stating that they were breaking laws the news went viral with gardeners, off-griders, and food activists blasting thousands of complaints into the blogosphere. Now sustainable economy attorney, Neil Thapar, having studied these laws for many states, reports that…
April 18, 2015
Tammy Clayton