Food
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Ecolocalizer is a member of a blog collective known as Important Media. Each week we share a list of featured articles from across our diverse network, including compelling posts from Eat Drink Better, Blue Living Ideas, Planetsave, Crafting a Green World, Feelgood Style and CleanTechnica. Please take a moment to read some of this week’s highlighted articles, and you might learn something new.
This year’s free conference is spearheaded by the Brooklyn Food Coalition. This grassroots organization tackles issues concerning food and sustainability to work toward their vision of a more just and sustainable local food system. Now they’re taking over Brooklyn Technical High School, getting ready for a second round of transforming minds and food policy in the region.
In these short films we meet Malik Yakini, a man who is part of the creation of inner-city organic farms in Detroit, and Kandace Vallejo, a youth organizer and educator on food injustice. We are also introduced to Jenga Mwendo, who is helping devlope community gardens in the ninth ward of New Orleans, Haile Johnston, a social entrepreneur working on food access in Philadelphia, and Braham Ahmadi, who works on community food justice issues in Oakland.
This great post by Patricia Larenas is a reprint from one of the many blogs in our network: eatdrinkbetter.com.
Multi-National corporations continue to develop agricultural strategies which indirectly destroys food crop biodiversity. I’m getting ready to sow my Three Heart Lettuce seeds and be part of a volunteer team that is evaluating a special heirloom variety of lettuce that is in danger of extinction. Just like rare wild plants and animals, food crops can disappear forever.
Interested in the difference between these two tasty wild edibles? Please read on to learn more.
My favorite vegetables in the garden are the ones that require very little work. This handpicked selection of tasty perennial vegetables showcases plants that will consistently come back year after year, whether you give them much care and attention or not.
Kale is a beautiful dark leafy green that is packed with nutrition and cancer fighting properties. High in manganese, as well as vitamins A, C and K, this vegetable is often referred to as a superfood. Gaining quickly in popularity for its ease to grow, hardiness and wonderful taste, kale is becoming a staple in home gardens everywhere.
Food insecurity is huge problem in our nation. More families are now in need of food stamps than ever before in the history of our country, and in many neighborhoods liquor stores far outnumber produce markets. However, in the barren food deserts of East Los Angeles, a few small oases of healthy food options are beginning to sprout.
I don’t know about you, but when I saw this map illustrating where all the McDonald’s locations are situated, it seemed apparent to me that there just might be a correlation between where these fast food restaurants are and where obesity is most prevalent in the United States. What do you think?
I guess mom was right — eating your broccoli really is good for you. A recent study by the Linus Pauling Institute, in coordination with Oregon State University, found evidence that broccoli and other plants in the cabbage family (Cruciferae) have significant cancer prevention properties, due to certain sulfur containing compounds (isothiocyanates) which these plants contain.
Considering the growing list of problems erupting from destructive modern agriculture practices, it is clear that new leadership is desperately needed at our Department of Agriculture (USDA). Many of these problems have been issues for decades, and only superficial responses have been made by the USDA.
In the heart of Seattle, a public park is planned like no other — an urban food forest that is free for the plucking. With its mild temperatures and moist climate, Seattle is taking advantage of its vegetation-friendly environment. A seven acre plot of public land, a community of local planners and advocates are moving forward with plans to build the first, completely free, public food forest in a U.S. city.
For those wanting to see what happens with a community garden located on the rooftop, go visit the Brooklyn Grange – which is not in really in Brooklyn, but in Queens. Now what is considered the world’s largest rooftop farm is expanding again.