Building the Foundation for a     Sustainable Local Food Movement

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 [...]

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 [...]

Advancing Eco-Agriculture is an agricultural and horticultural consulting and manufacturing company providing information, consulting services and specialty nutritional materials for use in irrigation systems and foliar applications. The Farm to Consumer Foundation will be at Advancing Eco-Agriculture’s upcoming Field Day on Oct. 9th. To receive information about Advancing Eco-Agriculture, visit their website or check out their [...]

One of the great flaws in current food systems is that despite significant progress in development and food production hundreds of millions of people are hungry because they lack the means to produce or purchase the food they need for a healthy and productive life, according to FAO’s report.

It’s no secret agribusiness tout that the solution to world hunger is to increase GMO food production. Yet 17.2 million households – or 14.5 percent of households (approximately one in seven) – were food insecure in 2010, the highest number ever recorded in the United States (Coleman-Jensen 2011, p. v.). Is big ag really the [...]