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Fresh, Local Produce, Even in Winter
Oct 7th, 2013 | By Nicole Rogers
As great as it is to eat local, in most of the U.S. there are certain months of the year when it is difficult, if not impossible, to eat local food fresh from the field. Thankfully, a new crop of food hub entrepreneurs are thinking beyond the growing season by freezing fresh summer produce to sell locally in the winter.
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Lemon Trees for All in San Francisco
Oct 2nd, 2013 | By Nicole Rogers
A project called Just One Tree has a singular but ambitious goal: to make sure San Francisco can grow all the lemons it consumes. To do this, the community will need to produce 461 tons of lemons annually—that's a lot of lemons! But Dr. Isabel Wade, founder and executive director of Just One Tree, thinks it's possible. She's put together a program to encourage residents to plant new lemon trees and register existing ones to meet the goal.
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Food Waste For Fresh Produce
Sep 6th, 2013 | By Laura Waldman
Hello Compost launches a program to help low-income New York City residents trade in their food waste for locally grown fresh produce.
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Open Source Farming
Aug 28th, 2013 | By Aubrey Yee
Farm Hack brings hi-tech innovation to the traditionally low-tech world of farming.
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What is a Food Hub?
Aug 26th, 2013 | By Nicole Rogers
Food hubs are a crucial, but often invisible, part of the local food system. They help small farms grow by offering a combination of production, distribution, and marketing services. There are now 236 food hubs in the U.S., with more popping up all the time.
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Urban Farming Goes Multi-Locational
Aug 15th, 2013 | By Aubrey Yee
One of the critical hurdles that farmers in urban areas face is access to affordable land for growing food. The concept of a multi-locational or decentralized farm is an elegant solution to growing food in diverse urban and suburban settings. It seems that more and more farms are using the multi-locational model. We found quite a few successful operations in Canada in particular.
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Farmers: Coming to an Office Near You
Aug 2nd, 2013 | By Aubrey Yee
For people who work late hours and have families to manage or long commutes, finding the time to shop at farmer's markets or pick up a CSA box is often not feasible. So a lot of people who otherwise would love to have easy access to local fresh food get left out of the equation. A growing number of organizations are trying to bridge this gap by bringing CSAs directly to workplaces, which is a boon to all involved: workers, employers, and local farmers.
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On Small Farms, Agritourism Grows
Jul 16th, 2013 | By Aubrey Yee
Whether you want to take a day trip to learn how lavender is farmed or stay a few days on a working farm to learn about organic agricultural methods, there are a multitude of agritourism experiences available right here in America.
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Food Forests Take Root
Jul 12th, 2013 | By Aubrey Yee
Last spring, the city of Seattle announced plans for the nation's first food forest, and people around the country immediately took notice. News of the 7-acre public park to be converted into a free, open, public food forest spread through blogs and other news publications and before long others decided to embrace the idea for their own community.
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First Ag-Bioscience High School to Open This Fall
Jul 5th, 2013 | By Laura Waldman
Global Impact STEM Academy, a new public high school in Springfield, Ohio — and the first in the nation to focus on agricultural biosciences — is now recruiting students. The concept for the school was developed to address the region's widening gap between the skills of its workforce and the skills required for the agbioscience industry and give young people real-world experience in areas with strong job and economic growth — agriculture, energy and the environment.
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