This workshop will teach you a simple and versatile option to grow your own food using about 20% of the space of a conventional garden. Led by Square Foot Gardening Foundation’s Certified Instructor and Master Gardener, Reese Michaels, you’ll learn … Read More
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April 19: Long Island Food Coalition Brings LI 2018 Spring Conference
April 19, 2018 9am – 1pm Hofstra’s Student Center Theatre 151 Keynote Speaker: Mark Winne has worked for 40 years as a community food activist, writer, and trainer. From organizing breakfast programs for low-income children in Maine to developing innovative national … Read More
February 21: CUNY Urban Food Policy Forum
Food Policy in New York City Since 2008 Part 2: Lessons for the Next Decade – hosts the second of a two-part series looking at the progress the city has made on food policy and what else needs to be … Read More
February 13: Food Policy for Breakfast Series @Hunter College
What Are You Really Eating? Food Transparency Exposed A presentation and conversation with Urvashi Rangan, Chief Science Advisor, GRACE Communications Foundation about the dizzying array of food labels and consumer demand for increased transparency. More info and register online here!
Food Shortages and World Hunger; Fiber Hijacked by Big Food; Musk Brother Invests in Food; New Legislation Hampers DEA From Cracking Down on Opiates;
Rice and Beans: $1.20 in New York, $73 in Haiti “The United Nations World Food Programme just released a report on the cost, relative to average income, of a basic meal such as rice and beans in 33 countries. Someone living in … Read More
Keep the Soil, Not the Grass; Artists’ Share More Than Fruit; Healthy School Food is Here to Stay; NY Fast-Food Workers Make Political Gains; Nestle Comments to Protect Food Safety
U.S. Pays Farmers Billions To Save The Soil. But It’s Blowing Away – NPR, the Salt In recent years, dust storms have returned, driven mainly by drought. But, according to rural residents and others, farmers are “making the problem worse by … Read More
Dicamba Affects All; Wasted Release; Pruitt Repeals the Clean Power Plan; SNAP’s 40th Anniversary
Posted on October 10, 2017
DuPont’s Weedkiller Divides Farmers Dicamba is one of DuPont’s top-selling products; an herbicide used alongside the Monsanto company’s GMO-seeds, which are genetically altered and designed to resist the aforementioned, toxic weed-killing chemical. Yet, rifts between farmers, namely between those who use the herbicide and those who refuse to, peaked … Read More
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