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Can we incentivize farmers market shopping?
North Creek's farmers market. NCPR file photo. The popularity of farmers markets has exploded over the last decade. In many places, they've become huge tourist attractions and economic hubs of a...
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New food and farm science blog to bookmark
The cover of Scientific American's Food issue The intersection of food, farming, health, and science, is red hot right now with the public. And that's a great thing for understanding what we eat, where...
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Thinking about hunger near and far on World Food Day
Photo: Oxfam International. Some rights reserved. October 16th is the day the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization designates as World Food Day. It's a day to remember all the people in...
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A dress made of collard greens. Fighting obesity.
Photos courtesy Theresa Lou Bowick. Yes, you read that right. A dress made almost entirely of huge collard green leaves. I couldn't resist when I saw this report. The dress was designed by Nathaniel...
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Friday deadline for North Country Jr. Iron Chef!
The Bacon Boys from Brasher Falls Central School in action at the 2013 North Country Jr. Iron Chef event. Photo: Health Initiative Every spring, a couple dozen teams of young people from the North...
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The food industry's "Inconvenient Truth"?
Photo: Fed Up press kit. A new documentary that showed at Sundance last weekend accuses the food industry of being the 21st century's Big Tobacco – fueling a health epidemic while waging "a...
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Vermont farm to plate movement feeds supply and demand
Graphic from Vermont Sustainable Job Fund report. http://www.vsjf.org/project-details/5/farm-to-plate-initiative Yesterday I talked with Amy Ivy (of Coop. Extension) about a neat event in Plattsburgh...
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New nutrition labels escalate war on calories
The proposed (left) and existing nutrition labels, as proposed by the Food and Drug Administration. For the first time in more than two decades, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration wants to change...
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NYT: new farm bill "more whole grain than white bread"
Interesting read in the New York Times over the weekend. The article provides analysis of the new farm bill, making the case that things like new programs for fruit and vegetable farmers and increased...
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"Hunger in the U.S. is a solvable problem."
There is an alarming amount of hunger in the United States, despite our collective wealth. This fact has been cited so often that it has lost some of its power. Income inequality is old news, but it’s...
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