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A Bright Side to Higher Food Prices?
We’re all feeling the pinch in one form or another. We feel it when we hand over the extra dollar for the slice of pizza or part with $4 dollars for a half-gallon of orange juice. We notice it too in...
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Reflections on Lazy Locavores
It’s not easy being a locavore, but people nevertheless are trying. They’re hitting farmers markets whenever they can, checking Web sites for local food sources, and even growing food in their own...
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Mini-Size Me
Eli’s, the gourmet food market on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, last month took a radical step on behalf of the environment: it added an energy surcharge of 1.8 percent to people’s grocery bills....
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What the World Wants Today
For all the progress and momentum of the local food movement, people are still stuck in the 1970s when the solution to the world’s problems seemed to be a bottle of Coca-Cola. “I’d like to buy the...
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Online Farmers Market?
Talk about stretching the truth. Shrewd entrepreneurs are positioning their companies as promoters of local food when their businesses in fact have little if anything to do with local food. Take...
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What Price Milk?
A pamphlet circulated by New York's now defunct Consumer-Farmer Milk Cooperative for nearly 20 years. A dime for a quart of milk today sounds like a bargain, but back in the 1930s it was anything but....
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How Sweet It Is
Northeast winter carrots are sweeter than carrots just about anywhere else, even the high-quality, organic ones at Whole Foods. That’s one of the many notable takeaways in a recent interview Krista...
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World of NYC Green Carts Revealed
Photo of Bangladeshi Green Cart vendor in Brooklyn by photographer Thomas Holton. New York City Green Cart vendors, the men and woman who have ventured into some of the city’s poorest neighborhoods to...
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Grocery Store Operator to Expand Supermarkets in NYC Low-Income Nabes
A citywide initiative to establish and retain supermarkets in low-income neighborhoods under the Food Retail Expansion to Support Health (FRESH) program is gaining traction. The New York City Economic...
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A Calf Among the Cows: Profile of Organic Farm in Portugal
Click to view slideshow. © Slide show by Margarida Correia. This is one in a series of posts on my 10-day experience as a volunteer farmer in northern Portugal. Rosa had finished drinking from the...
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