Building the Foundation for a     Sustainable Local Food Movement

This article posted today on Grist comments on one of last night’s Super Bowl big ads, an advertisement for the perpetuation that “all is well on the farm”. Read more.    

From our friends at Grist: Upping the steaks: How grass-fed beef is reshaping ag and helping the planet is a great article on grass-fed beef and some of the hurdles that producers must address when managing pastures and the needs of our animals on pasture. Cost of the product is higher but so is the [...]

The 85th annual FFA National Convention was held in Indianapolis Indiana October 24 through October 27. Nearly 60,000 FFA members and teachers attended the convention from every state including Hawaii, Alaska and Puerto Rico. There were 380 exhibitors at this year’s convention ranging from all the land grant colleges, pharmaceutical companies, agribusiness and manufacturing representatives. [...]

Share photos of your favorite farmers market, farm or restaurant! We are looking for your photos that showcase food produced using sustainable practices and photos of those who grow, prepare and eat responsibly produced food. Photos will be collected on our Facebook page, and some will be featured on our new website. We support sustainable [...]

“Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.” – Kenneth Boulding, Economist To read more, click here.

An article from Grist discusses the recent news headlines over whether or not  organic foods are more nutritious than conventional foods. These headlines are based on a Stanford University meta-analysis that combined data from 237 studies; however, this study does not tell the whole story of the benefits of organic.  Click here to view this [...]

Here, you will see the logic of the modern industrial food system in its rawest form — a logic of prioritizing profit over human and environmental welfare.  Alot has changed in the 400 years since the Elmina Fort was built, but this principle has not gone away. The logic of the plantation is the logic [...]

Continued support from people like you has allowed the Foundation to create and continue to deliver critical educational programs that are vital to the sustainability of the local food movement, quality food production, protection of rights to purchase direct from the producer and recruitment efforts for new producers to meet the growing demand of quality locally produced [...]

A recent NY Times article addresses organic purists concerns with the influence that big companies have on the organic food industry.