by Farm To Consumer Foundation | Jul 18, 2013 | Newsletter Issue One
How to Understand the Difference in Seeds There’s been so much talk about different types of vegetable seeds, that it’s no surprise that some people might feel confused. Occasionally it has been suggested that genetically modified (GMO) seeds are the same as those...
by Farm To Consumer Foundation | Jul 18, 2013 | Newsletter Issue One
The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Wal-Mart, Applebee’s, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table. By Tracie McMillan McMillan went undercover in three jobs that feed America, living and eating off her wages in each: California fields, a Wal-Mart produce aisle outside...
by Farm To Consumer Foundation | Jul 18, 2013 | Newsletter Issue One
Every year the Environmental Working Group releases two lists: one of the “Clean 15,” those fruits and vegetables that carry the least possibly pesticide load. And the other, “the Dirty Dozen,” of those fruits and vegetables that have the most residual pesticides....
by Farm To Consumer Foundation | Jun 27, 2013 | Farm-to-Consumer Foundation News
When the Harvard Business Review starts publishing warnings about the changing consumer preference from shiny and slick to hand made and less than perfect, it should be a pretty good indication that times are changing. Grant McCracken is a research affiliate at MIT...
by Farm To Consumer Foundation | Feb 4, 2013 | Farm-to-Consumer Foundation News
Many people reacted to last night’s Super Bowl ad with dismay at how the industrial model of agriculture, which is harming our environment and the health of our citizens, was being romanticized, and how it misrepresented the reality of farming in the U.S. today....
